What Leaving Present Should You Get Your Colleague?
What Leaving Present Should You Get Your Colleague?
Avoid panicked last-minute emergency email chain whip-arounds with this handy quiz!
Avoid panicked last-minute emergency email chain whip-arounds with this handy quiz!
How long have you worked together?
Do you like them?
What’s their personality in the office like?
How do they sign off their emails?
Your paths cross in the kitchen, what do you do?
Didn’t they help you move house that time?
Have you ever had a fling with them?
Are you glad they’re leaving?
The only vaguely appropriate greeting card they have in the nearest shop and a mid-range bottle of booze.
The only vaguely appropriate greeting card they have in the nearest shop and a mid-range bottle of booze.
Literally no other gifts are acceptable. You obviously can’t leave them empty-handed, but going all out on a fancy present guarantees a resentful few won’t put their hands in their pockets and you, the organiser, will be lumped with footing nearly the entire bill, only for the recipient to pull a face of muffled embarrassment when it turns out they don’t like That Thing They Mentioned In The Office Once quite as much as you thought. Do you really think your soon-to-be-ex colleague wants a constant reminder of the awful people they had to share every hellish Monday to Friday with until they found something better/were fired? No. Take our advice, play it safe.
The only vaguely appropriate greeting card they have in the nearest shop and a mid-range bottle of booze.
The only vaguely appropriate greeting card they have in the nearest shop and a mid-range bottle of booze.
Literally no other gifts are acceptable. You obviously can’t leave them empty-handed, but going all out on a fancy present guarantees a resentful few won’t put their hands in their pockets and you, the organiser, will be lumped with footing nearly the entire bill, only for the recipient to pull a face of muffled embarrassment when it turns out they don’t like That Thing They Mentioned In The Office Once quite as much as you thought. Do you really think your soon-to-be-ex colleague wants a constant reminder of the awful people they had to share every hellish Monday to Friday with until they found something better/were fired? No. Take our advice, play it safe.