[net.social] XMAS PRESENTS AND BOSSES....

dmf@whuxi.UUCP (12/06/84)

    I plan on giving my three male bosses a small non-personal
    christmas present.  The other girls in my department had a fit
    because they felt It would make them "look bad" as they have never
    nor plan on giving anything to their guys for christmas.

    They sort of came close to begging me not to give anything.
    I just want to give a "little something" purely because I LIKE
    my superiors.  The other girls reasoning for not giving is just
    because they don't want to spend the money on the guys and feel
    they should be the ones given the Xmas present (which the guys
    usually do).

    So I plan on keeping my thoughts and quietly leaving the little
    something on their desks.  I, personally, think nothing earth
    shattering will come of this; anyone agree?



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Dee

ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) (12/06/84)

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1) "Girls in your office"?  There are child-labor laws, you know.

2)  If you have just gone ahead without knowing how your co-workers felt, it
would have been okay.  But this way, you'll antagonize them (not a good idea)
and make it look like you're trying to butter up the boss.  How about something
for everyone--a large box of candy to be shared among everyone in the office or
some such.

If you give your co-workers gifts also, that should make it clear that you just
like to give gifts, and might be another alternative.

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jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan) (12/10/84)

Wow! The words used in this article are loaded with multiple meanings.
Whether the bosses are male or not didn't seem to be an issue, when I
first started reading, but then Dee refers to the bosses of the other women
(I presume she meant full-grown women when she said "girls") as "their guys".
As in "my guy==my boyfriend"??? Dee seems to want to give the presents
more because the bosses are men than because they are bosses.
Is she giving presents to her female co-workers as well??
As for whether anything earth-shattering will come of giving the bosses
presents -- I doubt it. It sounds like the worst that will happen is that
the other women will be mad at Dee and it will cause one more bit of office
tension.
I suggest Dee limit herself to giving Christmas CARDS to her bosses (and
maybe she should think about the same for her co-workers).

   --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM
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franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian) (12/11/84)

	Christ, Dee. Nothing like sucking up to the bosses, huh? I hope
the other employees in the office lynch you. Just because YOU like your
bosses doesn't mean that everyone in the office does. Nothing like Xmas
to provide another chance for climbing that corporate ladder.
	By the way, this is just a joke, but 5 to 1 you'll get some
flame like this (maybe even from Jeff Sargeant (why don't you get off the
net, Jeff?)).

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