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Work Leaving Gifts

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macum1920 said:
I worked at Ebac in West Auckland 20 odd years ago, fooking shitehole, people I worked with were canny and got me the Beatles No. 1 CD, loved the gift just hated the place 🤷‍♂️
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Don’t know the bloke who owns it but I’ve seen him on the telly , I took an instant dislike to him , don’t ask me why .
 

buster said:
Don’t know the bloke who owns it but I’ve seen him on the telly , I took an instant dislike to him , don’t ask me why .
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Actually he was okay, problem was his family had every management position and most of them couldn’t manage a fart, when I worked there, they had 8 products, 6 were on recall, was fun 👍
 
Baloo said:
South America? Cuba is in North America.

As has already been established previously, the OP posts on other forums with the same avatar and the same stories changing minor details e.g. he for she.

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I find it odd that you think you know the age, race, gender and political leanings of all of us that have spotted that this is a bot spamming forums? Please can you try and guess mine?

If you can find one post where I’ve said anything negative about females, South Americans (😂), Socialism or especially about BLM, I’ll be amazed.
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I post about it almost daily

The SMB is dominated by 2
3 types of people

1. The incredibly wealthy who use it as a place to boast

2. Liars and fantasists who pretend to be incredibly wealthy and use it as a place to boast

3. Angry middle aged men who mebbe should get out a bit more and see the world they're so frightened of
 
Got a knife, two cups and a percolator when I left my last post. Dropped the ceramic cup in the second week in my new job.
 
Yellerish said:
I post about it almost daily

The SMB is dominated by 2
3 types of people

1. The incredibly wealthy who use it as a place to boast

2. Liars and fantasists who pretend to be incredibly wealthy and use it as a place to boast

3. Angry middle aged men who mebbe should get out a bit more and see the world they're so frightened of
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So which of the 3 are you?
 
PeteFTM said:
Is that a no?
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The one where someone said they'd been scouring different internet forums for identities with a similar username and avatar as the op?

Don't think I'd really want to reply to someone who thinks that's a normal way to behave
 
I've had 5 jobs in the last 5 years, left each one of them to move onto something better/new. Never once remotely expected anything like a leaving gift, never mind got one :lol:
 
West_Winger said:
So which of the 3 are you?
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Am happy to admit am not very well off and a bit shit at lots of things

I don't really see the benefit of starting threads about my life because am one of the very few posters that isn't incredibly successful and very rich.
 
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Yellerish said:
The one where someone said they'd been scouring different internet forums for identities with a similar username and avatar as the op?

Don't think I'd really want to reply to someone who thinks that's a normal way to behave
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It’s literally the same person. :lol:

Just accept you’re wrong and move on.
Yellerish said:
Am happy to admit am not very well off and a bit shit at lots of things

I don't really see the benefit of starting threads about my life because am one of the very few posters that isn't incredibly successful and very well off
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So which of the 3 does the OP fall into? Bearing in mind they don’t appear to know whether their partner is male or female.
 
Mantobar said:
There's a bloke retiring at our place he's never put anything in for anybody but he's 1st to the bar to get the beers in, I find that a bit strange
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Sounds sensible to me.

I f***ing hated it when in the office and yet another request for money came around for some birthday,wedding,newborn or other such event. I shook the envelope to make the coins jingle crossed off me name and passed it to the next person. Happy to buy my work marras a pint though.

I will a mention that whenever I had a potential present worthy event I make it clear to me boss that I did not want a collection or gift. Not being ungrateful but did not want colleagues feeling obliged to donate any of their hard earned. I am there to work and get a pay cheque and not other free shite.
 
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Emma Chisset said:
My partner left his work yesterday after more than 3 years as a school cleaner. They now finished deep cleaning the school ready for the new year.

Whenever teachers or other staff have left in the past, they have always come round collecting. "Oh Jemima's leaving and we're all putting in £5". Even though of course cleaners are on much less wages than teachers and £5 can be a lot of money for us. When the teachers have left, they give them champagne and flowers and vouchers for the shops. When my partner left yesterday, you can imagine what he got - nothing. The same as always. We joke about it and say "I just picked up my carrier bag and left..." because that is all that you can do.

He has been a good cleaner and reliable. Friendly to everyone as far as I know. I think he didn't get a gift because we are underclass.

Well anyway, the gifts here are usually only from duty anyway and not with any sentiment. When I left my job in Cuba to come here, my workmates gave me the gift of a written tribute. They read it out to me at a meeting we had to say goodbye. It was very emotional and with sentiment that they were sad I was going. Although it didn't cost anything, it was worth much more than the gifts they give here anyway.

What have you had as a gift When leaving your work?
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We always get our cleaners leaving gifts and a collection at Christmas
 
Maybe the staff have little sympathy for people who didn't pay attention to their teachers.

Just kidding. Would be the decent thing to give them something, considering it seems to be par for the course for them to be given gifts each year off all the kids' parents.

I once got a leaving gift for a temp job I did for less than two months and one short stint they took me out to lunch for a farewell meal.
 
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I still don't get the timeline on this. Put his notice in 4 weeks ago, so about 16th of July. When did the schools break up?
Emma Chisset said:
It was deep cleaning ready for the new year. He put his notice in 4 weeks ago, so they all knew he was going long before.
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16th of July?
 
someone at our work had been working at the company for about 15 years. He worked between loads of departments so when he left loads of people chipped in, must have been several hundred quid.

he rejoined in 3 months as hated the new job. Felt like asking for a refund
 
Golf bag / clubs when I left Budget windows in 2005. While I was away they got took over and the new owners ‘invested in me’ and brought me back.
Was gone 4 months and a few said I should hand the golf clubs back
 
I really don't get the leaving present thing. Someone who does your job is leaving to get paid more money and so the people who are on less money should put their hands in their pockets and give the person who is going to be better off a present?

I normally jiggle the envelope, rummage in my pocket, jiggle again, write my name on the front and pass it on. I'm not a complete bastard, don't mind retirements, redundancies or even babies as long as I know the person, but coughing up for "Terry from HR" that you have never met who is going to be a HR manager for big company is a bit of a mickey take for me.

One bloke at my current place was quite unpopular, he was, in fact, a complete arsehole who'd kissed arse and became a departmental manager and had made the whole places lives a misery to feather his own nest by introducing silly targets and instigating random sackings to keep people on their toes.
When he left for bigger and better things one of the middle managers quite fancied sitting on his coat tails, so sent round the envelope to 300 people. To get the ball started they'd chucked in a tenner and a handful of loose change.

When it came back it had 43p in it, washers, foreign coins and an assortment of paper clips, the middle managers had to have a whip round and we all had to stand there while they presented him with about £100 worth of whisky and cards and listen to his self promoting, gloating speech.
 
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