yankee swap report
Dec. 21st, 2017 06:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicat*I traded to get my own gift back. (Thanks, person who opened my gift right before it was my turn, giving me a chance to do so! Sorry about the trade, but it was your boss who brought the wacky bagpiping Santa statue you ended up with, so maybe talk with her about that?)
*The hotly traded gift of the year was a pocket-sized power bank. (The person who brought it also traded to get it back, but then it moved around a couple more times after that.)
*Ten people is a good amount for a yankee swap. Having said that, it continues to astonish me that leadership is so conspicuously absent from these events. (I had a whole thing ready to go on that, but it's Christmas.)
*One gift was alcohol. Technically that's not allowed -- we signed a thing about it. You're not even supposed to have it in your car, because I remember there was consternation about people who did grocery shopping on their lunch break. (Apparently it's allowed because Christmas? This is why people break rules, though -- because it's completely unclear when they apply and when they don't! Which reminds me, I never signed that privacy policy. On the other hand, they never sent me the answers to my questions, like they promised they would, so I suppose we're at an impasse.)
*I can only assume that less and less work will get done the closer we move to Friday night. Challenge accepted.
*PS Happy Shortest Day of the Year!
*The hotly traded gift of the year was a pocket-sized power bank. (The person who brought it also traded to get it back, but then it moved around a couple more times after that.)
*Ten people is a good amount for a yankee swap. Having said that, it continues to astonish me that leadership is so conspicuously absent from these events. (I had a whole thing ready to go on that, but it's Christmas.)
*One gift was alcohol. Technically that's not allowed -- we signed a thing about it. You're not even supposed to have it in your car, because I remember there was consternation about people who did grocery shopping on their lunch break. (Apparently it's allowed because Christmas? This is why people break rules, though -- because it's completely unclear when they apply and when they don't! Which reminds me, I never signed that privacy policy. On the other hand, they never sent me the answers to my questions, like they promised they would, so I suppose we're at an impasse.)
*I can only assume that less and less work will get done the closer we move to Friday night. Challenge accepted.
*PS Happy Shortest Day of the Year!
