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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My office collected $25 from each employee each year to cover sympathy flowers and baby congratulations.  When you had a baby you were supposed to get a $25 gift card.  Guess who got forgotten - me!

A couple years later this system broke down and they threw a deluxe baby shower at work for one woman and her husband.  They collected money on a one-time basis and gave her a $300 baby sensor monitoring device.  Somebody even made gender themed punch with an ice ring.[/quote]

Ha. I was maybe 2 weeks into a new job when a manager had a 10 year anniversary AND a birthday fall on the same week. I got hit up for $25 for each, so $50 total. I didn't even know the guy. My birthday was 4 months later and was completely ignored.

People just suck.[/quote]

This seems to happen to me everywhere I go. Even during my one-year judicial clerkship the long-time secretary retired, my co-clerk had a baby, and the judge got really sick. Got hit up for a retirement gift, a baby gift, and a get well soon gift all while I had no money (and ridiculous debt, although at least those payments were paused). [/quote]

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