@therealjrn cookies are always a good choice for office gifts. They are certainly better than a layoff notice; I got that one year but, it was only a temporary layoff.
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Yikes! Thankfully I only have to deal with less than a dozen people in my ER. They generally get gifts I’ve made. Things like hot sauce, jam, smoked cream cheese or oil, banana bread , etc and over the years many of them have become “dependent” on those items once a year!
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I typically bought cookie tins, popcorn tins or boxes of chocolates to give to individual departments, especially those that often got neglected by the doctors. Med-surg, ER, ICU, surgery etc. would get gifts from the docs for the department many times. IT, respiratory, lab, radiology, not so much and dietary and housekeeping were neglected altogether. I would generally get something they could share in their department and send it from “the ER”. Most times I would sneak into the department when nobody was around to leave it.
Since I only work PRN now and I’ve been out of town for Christmas the last few years I haven’t done that as much since I retired…
On the years that I had to work Christmas Day (when I was full-time) I would frequently put on a Santa hat and walk around the hospital and give everyone in the facility some candy on Christmas Day.
I always had trouble buying ~100 gifts for staff back in the day. Sam’s Club cookie tins can only take you so far.
@therealjrn cookies are always a good choice for office gifts. They are certainly better than a layoff notice; I got that one year but, it was only a temporary layoff.
@therealjrn
, etc and over the years many of them have become “dependent” on those items once a year!
Yikes! Thankfully I only have to deal with less than a dozen people in my ER. They generally get gifts I’ve made. Things like hot sauce, jam, smoked cream cheese or oil, banana bread
@accelerator
I typically bought cookie tins, popcorn tins or boxes of chocolates to give to individual departments, especially those that often got neglected by the doctors. Med-surg, ER, ICU, surgery etc. would get gifts from the docs for the department many times. IT, respiratory, lab, radiology, not so much and dietary and housekeeping were neglected altogether. I would generally get something they could share in their department and send it from “the ER”. Most times I would sneak into the department when nobody was around to leave it.
Since I only work PRN now and I’ve been out of town for Christmas the last few years I haven’t done that as much since I retired…
On the years that I had to work Christmas Day (when I was full-time) I would frequently put on a Santa hat and walk around the hospital and give everyone in the facility some candy on Christmas Day.
Father in law.