Reply #21: One of my hot buttons

[Missy Vixen]

>It seems everybody at my company is getting married or having a baby.

Every time somebody does, they pass an envelope around. You're supposed to put money inside, and write your name on the envelope.<

One of my colleagues tried this a month or so ago. Two guys in the office had had additions to their families within the past year; they got a card. The female having a baby got a shower on company time. (!) I declined to contribute, and was not thrilled to be "hit up" in the first place. Everyone should either get the same (card, shower, whatever,) or there should be no observance at all.

Here's another thing I am sick to death of: Those who guilt neighbors, co-workers, and friends into buying whatever it is their kids are selling this week. DH was harassed into buying Girl Scout cookies last year from multiple co-workers' children, then we were hit up again from the neighbor's kids. Typically, we wouldn't mind making a nominal donation, but this began to border on the ridiculous.

We've now stopped donating altogether after having a less-than-pleasant confrontation with one of our neighbor's daughters last year. It seems she is under the impression that we didn't spend as much as we should have.

Julie