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To buy a leaving present or not ...that is the question

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  • Sambucus_Nigra
    Sambucus_Nigra Posts: 8,669 Forumite
    thegirlintheattic wrote: »
    If going on maternity I wouldn't give her anything, even if I liked her.

    What a charmer.
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  • thegirlintheattic
    thegirlintheattic Posts: 2,761 Forumite
    Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »
    What a charmer.

    I'm not being mean. If she's going on maternity leave and coming back then she's not actually leaving. My work does collections for everything, which I give to, but never do a collection for maternity leave. Some flowers and baby gifts are brought when the baby is born, which seems a much better option.
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  • Valli
    Valli Posts: 25,571 Forumite
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    We just had a collection for a colleague who left on maternity leave unexpectedly early; so we collected when baby was born. I did the collection but was not impressed by a colleague who seemed to have a lot to say about what she felt was an appropriate gift; and was intent on NOT getting 'something for the baby' ie clothes, but something for the baby's future, eg jewellery.shrug.gif
    I felt that if she had such strong feelings she should have organised the collection.

    Office politics!
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  • phill99
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    No. There is far too much hypocrisy in this world.
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