Secret Santa gift exchanges are usually good for workplace morale. Ideally, they should be a fun way to get to know your co-workers better and spread a little good cheer around the holidays.
There are ground rules everybody should understand about Secret Santas, however.
You don’t try to figure out who your Secret Santa is before the exchange, for one. You don’t go over the agreed-upon spending limit. And you don’t try to figure out how much your Secret Santa actually spent.
After one woman broke that last rule, however, it looks like she might have completely soured her relationship with one of her co-workers.
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An otherwise perfectly nice gift turned into a can of worms when she decided to google the price and figured her Secret Santa owed her a little more.
And, funny enough, her Secret Santa seemed willing enough to top her up at first.
Which is far more understanding than I would have been, since those spending limits are meant as a guide to prevent extravagance, not a firm rule.
But it wasn’t so much a topping up that she was after.
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She wanted her Secret Santa to go bonkers for her.
Yeah, she’s not asking him to spend up to the limit — she wants him to more than double it!
Can you imagine what the gift exchange would have been like if someone handed out a tablet?
It would be the episode of The Office where Michael gives an iPod all over again.
She argues that she’s been spending lots on her kids, so he should spend extra on her, in addition to the fact that she thinks he makes more money.
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And also doesn’t have kids of his own to spend money on — as if somehow that makes her request completely reasonable.
Being childfree doesn’t mean you’re swimming in extra cash, and even if he had the extra, maybe he’d prefer to give it to a real charity.
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It doesn’t even seem like she’s poor, but rather that she’s already spent “up the wazoo” on her kids and still wants more.
It’s honestly not surprising that a woman who would pull a stunt like this would have the gall to call her Secret Santa “disgusting” for not buying her a $120 tablet on a $50 spending limit.
And just like that, she talked herself out of even the $20 top-up.
Can’t blame the guy! Just goes to show how far a little gratitude would go — and how far an attitude of entitlement will actually get you.
Hopefully, she learns a lesson before her kids inherit it too.