My boss will usually get me something small, like a gift card and a loaf of limpa bread from the Swedish Bakery (we're both 1/4 Swedish and she lives near Andersonville, the Swedish neighborhood of Chicago, so it's a little tradition we have). I use my discount at the bookstore to get her Russian Icons calendar every year, which she always reimburses me for, and then I get her a greeting card.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Dec 18, 2009 6:36:18 am PST #25999 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sparky1 - Dec 18, 2009 6:36:34 am PST #26000 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
I bring cookies or some other treat into the library for everyone to share, but I don't give individual gifts to people. I do tell my department that on the day before the Winter Break I do not expect them to come back from lunch, and I shut the library down.
smonster - Dec 18, 2009 6:36:43 am PST #26001 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Do people get gifts from their bosses?
Nope. I got something for my boss, but mostly b/c she's been going through a really tough time and I saw it and couldn't resist.
msbelle - Dec 18, 2009 6:37:57 am PST #26002 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I do tell my department that on the day before the Winter Break I do not expect them to come back from lunch, and I shut the library down.
PTO is the best gift ever.
Kinda hard for me to do as I have to clock in and out.
Jesse - Dec 18, 2009 6:38:10 am PST #26003 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's not too late to send a naughty santa to the office. ijs.
A what?!? You did not just suggest I send a stripper to my former office.
erikaj - Dec 18, 2009 6:39:56 am PST #26004 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, even with murder, there is a self-defense sort of mitigation, Maybe that's it, although it's more like what Connie said. Mary got called by a spirit...she knew things were going to be okay, eventually, right(I'm not sure if she knew how the Son of God part was going to play out, though.) I'm not sure more mortal-type women feel that all the time when they become pregnant unexpectedly.
erikaj - Dec 18, 2009 6:39:57 am PST #26005 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2009 6:53:44 am PST #26006 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've never received a gift from a boss, and when I was a boss I never gave one. I did receive gifts from my employees, but not Christmas ones, just ad hoc stuff.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 18, 2009 6:57:39 am PST #26007 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My craziest bosses have always bought me the most gifts. I think they thought they were buying me putting up with them. Seriously, one year my boss bought me almost more than my mom did!
My semi-non-crazy boss and I exchange really tiny gifts (like a little bag of candy or something) now.
Lee - Dec 18, 2009 7:02:59 am PST #26008 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm in a weird situation here, because none of my actual bosses that I report to are likely to give me holiday presents, and I didn't send any of them one (I did send some candy to the SF library staff, but my boss won't eat it), but I have gotten one box of candy from a partner, who is sort of my boss too, and may get others next week.