Photos Of The F*cked Up Presents and Staff At Our Annual Office Gift Swap N Steal Through The Years!
Maybe your office does this too. In leu of a big company holiday party, there is a small staff luncheon somewhere, or like us here at the Rat, have it catered and enjoy a gift exchange right in the office. Whatever the case, I highly recommend doing a pirate gift swap. An evil white elephant exchange if you will.
The rules, both written and unwritten are simple. Everyone buys a gift between 15 and 25 dollars. They then wrap it, no names on it, and bring it to the party and place it under the tree. Then, numbers are placed in a hat. The amount of the numbers represents the amount of people taking place in the gift exchange. Whatever number you get, that’s the turn you go up to the tree and take a gift, then open it in front of everyone. So number 1 goes first, and if there are say, 30 people, number 30 goes last. Sort of..
This is where things get interesting. For the remainder of the game, after picker number 1 goes, the next person up can either pick from the tree, or steal another person’s gift who already has picked. It’s goddamn brutal. Bottles of alcohol flying from hand to hand, gift cards and the dreams of a month of free Wawa being ripped away, ect. Perhaps the worst part is that the poor soul who gets their gift stolen, can NOT steal from another person, but must take the walk of shame back to the tree and the great unknown, to pick up another gift. Mind you, a gift that very well may be stolen again! I’ve seen people cry. I’ve seen people offer up bribes. I once saw a former coworker open a brand new bottle of Jack Daniels he picked, and swig from it at 12 noon on a Tuesday, just so no one would steal it. Like I said, brutal. At the very end the only innocent person standing is our dear old friend, the first picker. Good old number 1 is then rewarded with being able to keep their gift or swap it out with any other person’s gift in the swap! Yup, one final evil deed to send us off for the holidays.
The other side of the coin here is that half the people in my office give really nice gifts. the rest of us give total shit gifts. So the potential of getting a gag gift that no one will take off your hands, even if there is a 20 dollar bill stuffed in it, is very real. Here are a few photos of some great, and not so great gifts at the Rat’s Christmas Swap N Steal parties of the past. Oh, and a few of our equally f*cked up Christmas Trees
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