trapped between karen and good sense

/I did go with the gift card cuz it's always best to go with what was asked for

this was a secret santa thing btw lol

my family all want to kill me this year bc this is basically what i did lol

i told everyone 'don't get me gifts, pls just give me money to go towards my trip next year, i don't want any gifts' and some of the older generations are fully BSODing about it

LOL RIGHT

in the end you want a gift to make the person happy, and from their request notes they like books and drawing so I'm like 'ah, you're me 20 years ago, I know you would like this gift card so you can get the genres you like'

I consdiered a sketchbook but the place I'd have to go to get one would be.... B&N anyways

where they wanted a giftcard FROM lol

also a small part of me when I saw they like drawing too was like 'you're gonna spend this on manga ain't you'

which, valid tbh

XD

yeah my older relatives (the ones that still give me Christmas gifts, since I have too many cousins for my aunts and uncle to really get for all of us) very quickly learned that it really is easier to just give me money

I might buy a little bag of choco or cookies to attach the card to tho, even if that's tech over our spend limit

a couple of them resisted when I was younger but eventually They Got It

mood tbh

my favorite gift when I was kid was when my favorite aunt realized before everyone else that I was not girly like my sister or cousins and just gave me an Amazon gift certificate

in other xmas at work news the annual xmas party is in early Jan this year and they changed it so only those that have worked there for a year or more can go

(back when that was a thing)

cuz apparently last year a bunch of part timers that were gone in less than 6 months won all the big raffle prizes and folks were butthurt about it

/I won last year too, a decent sized gift card hehehe

stupid rule but also less comp for the big wins so I'M not compalining

yeah I see the logic even if it's kinda silly

yeah I get why people who have been with the company for years seeing a 16 year old part timer walk away with like, I think a grand??? I don't remember

would be a little salty

In Quebec too giving money outright is seen as weird or rude? Idk why

My mom was happy my nephews asked for money

my family figured it out years ago, this year I didn't even ask for anything bc I'm moving and it would be nice to have a new bed

man i just would've had two pools of prizes, one for everyone and one for the year plus