At work we are looking at companies to come in and clean keyboards, mice, phones etc. during the cold and flu season. Anyways one of the guys in my group contacted a few companies a couple months ago to get quotes etc. and there was one company that never got back to him, until today.
Out of the blue they sent us a gift basket. Now comes the best\worst part. In the basket there were catalogs for a marketing company that will put your logos on pens, mice pads and clothes, a menu for a vietnamese restraunt in the south and a pen from a diffrent vietnamese restraunt. Then there was the food, we got three pieces of double bubble, a grape sucker, a halloween sized coffee crisp that was white when we opened it, a package of generic gummies and ju-jubes, a package of microwave popcorn that expired in June, no-name chicken noodle mix, Western Family halloween sized cheezies and a wetnap.
WTF were they thinking when they made this? We threw out everything, but at least the basket was nice and I brought it home for my wife cause does craft things with them.
Great idea to send sh$%Y gift baskets with the competitors business card. You could put dead mice and dustballs and used kleenex. And one wet wipe for Eastern Girl.
Great idea to send sh$%Y gift baskets with the competitors business card. You could put dead mice and dustballs and used kleenex. And one wet wipe for Eastern Girl.
Why just one? Why would they only put in one wet nap? Ah, I just think that's cute.
This reminds me of a time when I worked for a notoriously cheap family-run company. We received a beautiful gift basket from a client, full of wine, chocolates, crackers...all kinds of nice stuff.
The multi-millionaire family that ran the place sent out an e-mail saying there would be a draw for the basket on Friday at 5 p.m. So we all gather in the lunch room for the draw, and the basket, which had been on display all week, had been picked clean of all the good stuff by the multi-millionaire owners of the company. (They company was run by a dysfunctional family of five).
So we had a draw for the near-empty basket and the few things that remained in it...some crackers and stale cookies. No wine, chocolate, or anything else worthwhile.
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This reminds me of a time when I worked for a notoriously cheap family-run company. We received a beautiful gift basket from a client, full of wine, chocolates, crackers...all kinds of nice stuff.
The multi-millionaire family that ran the place sent out an e-mail saying there would be a draw for the basket on Friday at 5 p.m. So we all gather in the lunch room for the draw, and the basket, which had been on display all week, had been picked clean of all the good stuff by the multi-millionaire owners of the company. (They company was run by a dysfunctional family of five).
So we had a draw for the near-empty basket and the few things that remained in it...some crackers and stale cookies. No wine, chocolate, or anything else worthwhile.
LOL. Gift baskets are awesome. One of my sister's friends received a gift basket from a kooky neighbor that included a partially eaten baguette, a lone glove, ummmm, I forget the rest. But dammit it was funny.
Heh heh.. OK, I just spoke to my sister and I have tracked down the "fun basket" post on facebook... The post of the album is as follows:
this was forwarded to me by Yvonne who i work with. her friend morgan sent this to her, i just thot it was so freakin funny, i had to post it!
Well, we had another encounter with our crazy neighbour last night
>(the one who was yelling at us for ordering pizza...etc. the other
>weekend). She caught me on the way back from work and told me that
>she was going to bring over a basket for us later that night (she
>said not to worry--it was a "fun" basket)!
>
>Well, she followed through...and brought one over. It contained
>items like: a single glove, partially eaten moldy black berries, a
>stale baguette, a shoe horn...a Christmas Card with nothing in
>it...the list goes on. check it out!
>
>Morgan :-)
Location: next door to a crazy lady!
LOL! The pics are hilarious. Broken sunglasses, an air freshener, moldy blackberries... You can't make this stuff up! You need to be genuinely crazy so create one of these "fun baskets".
Heh heh.. OK, I just spoke to my sister and I have tracked down the "fun basket" post on facebook... The post of the album is as follows:
this was forwarded to me by Yvonne who i work with. her friend morgan sent this to her, i just thot it was so freakin funny, i had to post it!
Well, we had another encounter with our crazy neighbour last night
>(the one who was yelling at us for ordering pizza...etc. the other
>weekend). She caught me on the way back from work and told me that
>she was going to bring over a basket for us later that night (she
>said not to worry--it was a "fun" basket)!
>
>Well, she followed through...and brought one over. It contained
>items like: a single glove, partially eaten moldy black berries, a
>stale baguette, a shoe horn...a Christmas Card with nothing in
>it...the list goes on. check it out!
>
>Morgan :-)
Location: next door to a crazy lady!
LOL! The pics are hilarious. Broken sunglasses, an air freshener, moldy blackberries... You can't make this stuff up! You need to be genuinely crazy so create one of these "fun baskets".
i am going to make one for my friends bday next week..thanks for the great idea! some things ive thought of adding: one maxi pad..a picture of me and her with her cut out..one of those ugly doily style kleenex covers..half a bottle of nail polish..its going to be fun to make!
i am going to make one for my friends bday next week..thanks for the great idea! some things ive thought of adding: one maxi pad..a picture of me and her with her cut out..one of those ugly doily style kleenex covers..half a bottle of nail polish..its going to be fun to make!
You might have time to get Peter Popoff to send her some Miracle Manna before her birthday. It would supplement the fun basket nicely. I'll let you know whether it works. I ordered it for a guy on my shi+ list. I'm expecting some kind of po'd email or text any day now.
Worst gift basket ever!
