Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad

Re:Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad by fma on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:08AM (#33448276)

It's why I prefer to give hard cold cash. Not even gift cards...cash. And definitely not those stupid Visa gift cards where you pay a activation fee and occasionally get scammed.

I'm also from an Asian background where cash is more acceptable. I feel any other form of gifting is a ruse to increase consumerism, i.e. the popularity of gift registries, the perception that one isnt thoughtful if you dont yet a good gift etc.

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Re:Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad by thefounder on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:23AM (#33448358)

>> give hard cold cash

Best gift ever and good for the environment.

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Re:Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad by kwhitefoot on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:49AM (#33448907)

For all the people I might consider giving a gift to the amount of cash I would have to give for it to be meaningful would be huge. And that size would make it embarrassing. Much better to make the act part of the gift. As someone said elsewhere on this topic low value curated gifts are often very highly appreciated.

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Re:Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad by lupire on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:54AM (#33450229)

A gift registry is the one thing better than cash, because it skips an extra transactional step for a purchase that was going to happen anyway.

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