Waste on joke Christmas gifts at work

[shootingstar]

I've worked for over 8 different other employers. The best staff Christmas celebrations -were the potlucks with 2-3 employer sponsored dishes/coffee or a performance skits by some employees themselves. Yes, I've also gone to dreary formal tuxedo dinner evenings for the Christmas staff appreciation dinner. Dearie nearly refused to wear a tux (and he didn't have a suit that fitted at that time in life because of his weight loss) so I ended up chipping in over half of the tux rental. Fine by me since he was such a wonderful sport and equally clumsy dance partner for the evening.

Aside from this small BBQ restaurant lunch, last year on a different week, there was a fantastic, huge potluck lunch last year which covered 6 divisions of staff with over 200 employees at our work site. (I work within a small group of 15 employees.) Some people really did make a great effort to bring a crockpot of stew, bake bread. I appreciate such efforts from other employees at this time of year.

In the spirit of Christmas, regardless of whether or not one likes the work peers, I do believe in DIY type of celebrations. It's the closest in spirit to the original meaning of Christmas. And I'm not even religious.

As for the restaurant meal, there have been better meals... It was based on some of our guys who pull in the bulk of the revenue. And I work for govn't. Yea, you heard me. Not a choice by other employees in the dept. Anyway, I'm being humbuggish already.

I just started to think about this...when I have a budget limit of $30.00 per family member...because I have a lot of family members to buy stuff.