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MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Would you put £10 in Kitty's birthday kitty?
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I would contribute a couple of pounds, and if questioned would say thats what we'd normally put in for a colleague at previous jobs.Ermutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
Encouragement always works better than judgement.0 -
Definitely not! Might put a quid in but that's tops!!0
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Here's my take I worked at lloyds Bank East Grinstead Sussex Manager John Pleass and before him Brian The Woolwich tyrant RELF. paid my share of leaving presents (never saw them but whos complaining) for 11 years happily knew everyone liked everyone but when I left through family misfortune the 35 staff and 3 managers gave me a HUGE £15.00 and I had to ask if there was any small gift they might like to give me first though for the loyal service I willingly gave them.
As for asking for an amount and not being given the opportunity to put in what each could afford that is like semi blackmail.
Best thing is to pressure the managers to fork out from their expenses account for a moat repair or some garden manure as we have seen courtesy of the British upper class Members of Her Majesty's Government.
In other words NO I WOULDN'T GIVE ANYTHING TO SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO GET OUT OF THE COMPANY YOU ARE STUPID to work for best thing is to leave so many times you get paid more than your low plummeting salary.
Oh just as a parting laugh I received £6200.00 per year when I resigned from Lloyds Bank East Grinstead and within 6 months I was running my own Financial Services business earning that each month. So poor old LLoyds lost a good Honest employee. Oh and it took me 8 years to get my small pension earning 4% out from their miserly clutches and the fund is now worth £30,000.00 25 years later.
Save your money Please!0 -
If you dont know the work associate dont contribute or put a penny in the pot with your name printed on it then everyone will get the message Dont mess with you.
£10 what a greedy lot!0 -
The answer to this one is an emphatic NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!
Come on - let's be serious! I can't believe anyone would do this!
If it was someone I knew who was leaving the company, 5.00 quid would be about an absolute limit.
For someone I didn't know particularly well?
For someone's birthday?!!
Let's assume you're working in a company with 20 people (not including the birthday girl). That's 200 quid. That is one H-E-L-L of a birthday present for someone who's just a co-worker!0 -
drtilson216 wrote: »I would put £10 in as it is the right thing to do. Tough luck that you have just arrived. Furthermore, you can be sure that if you didn't, it would be held against you for evermore! Long memories in offices! :rolleyes:
Glad I don't work with you. Methinks we'd come to blows! It most certainly ISN'T the right thing to do. And if it was to be held against me then I'd soon be giving a piece of my mind to everyone!0 -
I would say I'm not prepared to pay that much and suggest a better way of doing things from my previous experiences.
We have a circulation list which (with the recipient's name removed) is attached to birthday cards and leaving collections and you tick to say you've seen it. No compulsion to sign or contribute or how much and the people are all in one big open plan office together so we all know each other.
We all chuck in a pound or so a year for cards and only collect for leavers. It's nice to get the messages on a card and birthday person buys (or makes) cakes or biscuits.0 -
Ouchtheygotme wrote: »Here's my take I worked at lloyds Bank East Grinstead Sussex Manager John Pleass and before him Brian The Woolwich tyrant RELF. paid my share of leaving presents (never saw them but whos complaining) for 11 years happily knew everyone liked everyone but when I left through family misfortune the 35 staff and 3 managers gave me a HUGE £15.00 and I had to ask if there was any small gift they might like to give me first though for the loyal service I willingly gave them.
As for asking for an amount and not being given the opportunity to put in what each could afford that is like semi blackmail.
If people were really grateful for your service they would have got you a gift I'm sure...0 -
I'll be putting in £25 for a colleague's leaving present - she's retiring due to ill health and I've known her for 15 years. I'd feel bad if I didn't.
That's appropriate - this never is! Any place that expects this isn't a good place to work.Under no circumstances may any part of my postings be used, quoted, repeated, transferred or published by any third party in ANY medium outside of this website without express written permission. Thank you.0 -
Yes I would if I was the newbie.
Let's be honest, if you've only just met her, people don't know whether you will and by contributing, you're telling people that you're prepared to make the effort to be a part of the team. At £10 it's a bargain.
That said, I would never expect a temp to contribute and with a new permanent member of staff, I'd instead do it like this,
"Hi XXX, would you like to sign YYY's card? There is also a collection, but we absolutely wouldn't expect you to put anything in."
Tom.0
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