Yo, gift-giving season is upon us, and boy, do we feel the pressure! 🎁 Turns out, like two-thirds of folks at work are swapping gifts, but a whole lot of us are sweating bullets over who to buy for—especially when the boss's kid is just chillin’ without a care in the world. 😅 So, in this episode, we dive into the wacky world of office holiday gifting and share the top six types of co-workers who totally don’t deserve a Christmas gift! From the pen-clicking nightmare to the bathroom announcer, we've got the lowdown on who to cross off your list. 😂 Let’s make this holiday season a little lighter and a lot funnier—grab your snacks and get ready to giggle! 🍿 The holiday season is creeping up on us faster than a squirrel on a caffeine buzz, and you know what that means—office gift exchanges are lurking around the corner! Haystack spills the beans on the pressure to gift in the workplace. Turns out, 2/3 of companies are throwing gift exchanges into the mix, and over half of employees feel the heat to shower their coworkers with goodies, even the ones who totally don’t deserve it! Picture this: you’ve got to get a gift for your boss's boss just to get a smile out of senior leadership. Seriously, who thought office gifting could feel like a twisted game of Monopoly? Haystack suggests a fun twist—why not do Secret Santas instead? One gift to rule them all, where you can swap and laugh instead of stressing! But beware, some coworkers are not getting a gift this year, and Haystack’s got the rundown on the top six offenders, from pen-clickers to the bathroom announcers. Get ready to chuckle and nod along as we navigate the wild world of office gift-giving (or not-giving)!

Good morning.

It's Haystack.

We're essentially just a couple of weeks away from Christmas, and a lot of people will roll their eyes at an office email about Secret Santas or white elephant gift exchanges, but many feel pressure to buy many gifts.

Kind of like buying gifts for your endless string of nieces and nephews.

Well, according to a new report, 2/3 of companies say their employees regularly exchange gifts.

And more than half of employees say they feel compelled to give things to multiple co workers.

Not just your friends at work, your supervisor, your boss's boss to butter up to senior leadership.

If you're in any kind of leadership position, all the people who you manage, since they probably feel like they need to get you a gift.

About one third feel a lot or extreme pressure to buy gifts.

The millennials and Gen Z are significantly more likely than Gen X to fill that extreme pressure.

And nearly a half, 46% feel pressured to spend a specific amount on gifts.

You know, gift giving at work, it kind of opens the door to favoritism, fosters a sense of obligation.

Obligation that could negatively impact teams and the dynamics in a team.

So I don't know that it's a, I don't know that it's not a bad idea for employees, employers to do the Secret Santa thing.

So it's a replacement for gift giving.

Just buy the one gift, do the swap, have all that much fun.

Again, over half of us feeling pressure to give gifts at the office.

But you know, there are some people at work who you don't feel a lot of pressure to give gifts to.

They're the co workers who don't deserve a Christmas gift.

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Top six types of co workers who do not deserve a Christmas gift.

Number six, the co worker who always clicks their pen during meetings.

Number five, the co worker who shows up late, leaves early, and doesn't do a dadgum thing in between, AKA the boss's kid.

Four, the co worker whose booty shorts say, I take casual Friday way too literally.

Three, the coworker who exits the bathroom, announces, you do not want to go in there.

Two, the co worker who evidently gets paid by the sniffle.

And the number one type of co worker who does not deserve a griff a Christmas gift at all.

The coworker who brings their personal demons to the office.

And by personal demons, I mean their kid.

Leave them at home.