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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do
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Yeah, I don't mind at all if it is a whip-around because someone is leaving the job, but some of the things are a joke - ever notice it's nearly always managers and bosses who someone decides to do a whip around for if they have a wedding or something? Heads up arses is all it is.podgemonster wrote: »Yes it is totally in your face in the workplace not sure if this is a new thing or not. 5K, 10K, half and full Marathon runners, sponsored cycles, charity quizzez, swims, Movember, someones is going to Lourdes with the elderly, someones son is going to some backwater country to teach computers to kids.
All of this unavoidable in a small to medium office with constant emails/reminders, posters and even them approaching you personally. Yes there are great causes out there and I did do a charity run & quizzez this year but you can't afford to be handing over a 10er to every joe bloggs who does a 5K or has a bake sale.
If you are doing something, fairplay to you, send ONE email and leave a sign up sheet & envelope in a general area and best of luck to ya!
I'll never forget when a manager tried to get a whip-around going for one of the owners of a company I worked for... weeks after they had sold the company (the merger was pending still), rendering half of us out of a job only a few weeks later. Not only that but it wasn't "will you give money" but rather "you WILL give money"... not a f***ing chance, find another way to kiss their ass in hopes of a good reference.
Yeah, I used to work in a Statoil/Topaz that tried the same.NothingMan wrote: »I don't think any vending machine stockist is gonna cover loss for the company they work for. When I worked in Shell a new owner tried to tell us that we'd be responsible for drive offs if we failed to get the reg. He was promptly told where to go.
Funny enough, whenever there was a drive off the following few hours would have a CRAZY amount of staff-priced coffees go through (charge 20c, take €2.00, put the €1.80 towards the drive off). One of those weird coincidences.
He was trying to be brief with his words, duh!Why didn't you mention this in the earlier post?0 -
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HansHolzel wrote: »I see rawn showed up as a like on the comment that said "who gives a f%ck"... quelle surprise.
The office, the wedding, where next? No place is safe from these tight-wads.
I liked it cos it was funny
I always gave to collections in the office I used to work in, there'd be at least one every frickin month though, does get a bit tiresome at times to be honest.0 -
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bucketybuck wrote: »It was a lot of words for not that interesting a story. You may as well have just said "This guy called Aiden sponged off me for a couple of months", saved us all some time.
I enjoyed the story. Technically half the stories on this thread could be told as "Someone sponged off me". I would be technically true, but kind of boring.
Imagine doing this on the telly. CSI: Wherever. Now only 30 seconds long! They could do jangely piano-music, 1920s style, with just two captions:
"A murder was commited" followed by "the good guys solved the murder and the murderer is now in jail".
What a time-saver!
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Not sure if this is stingy or super-thrifty
A relative has a neighbour whose daughter is getting married soon. She has been invited to the wedding but won't be going, however since she has known the bride most of her life she feels a gift is in order. She has taken a certain item from her kitchen cupboard (a well known, somewhat expensive brand of dishware) which she hasn't used very much, shined it up to look new, been to a department store to nab the sticker off a brand-new similar item to stick on the one at home and stuck a random barcode on the bottom of it. It will be gift-wrapped with a nice card and given to the happy couple.0 -
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Not sure if this is stingy or super-thrifty
A relative has a neighbour whose daughter is getting married soon. She has been invited to the wedding but won't be going, however since she has known the bride most of her life she feels a gift is in order. She has taken a certain item from her kitchen cupboard (a well known, somewhat expensive brand of dishware) which she hasn't used very much, shined it up to look new, been to a department store to nab the sticker off a brand-new similar item to stick on the one at home and stuck a random barcode on the bottom of it. It will be gift-wrapped with a nice card and given to the happy couple.
Definitely thrifty. I would do that! As long as it's perfectly presented and there's nothing wrong with it and nobody knows, what's the harm :pac:
I re-gift, especially if I don't know the person on a personal level. Extended family, neighbours, work colleagues...I'm not spending money on them if I have something perfectly good at home. If I can make sure it doesn't look like a re-gift (love the stickers idea!) then it will be a re-gift!0 -
Not sure if this is stingy or super-thrifty
A relative has a neighbour whose daughter is getting married soon. She has been invited to the wedding but won't be going, however since she has known the bride most of her life she feels a gift is in order. She has taken a certain item from her kitchen cupboard (a well known, somewhat expensive brand of dishware) which she hasn't used very much, shined it up to look new, been to a department store to nab the sticker off a brand-new similar item to stick on the one at home and stuck a random barcode on the bottom of it. It will be gift-wrapped with a nice card and given to the happy couple.
Funny, and i'd say more super-thrifty than stingy. The neighbour's daughter might get more use out of it than your relative. Be a different story maybe if relative was going to the wedding, but i don't find this too bad.0 -
Not sure if this is stingy or super-thrifty
A relative has a neighbour whose daughter is getting married soon. She has been invited to the wedding but won't be going, however since she has known the bride most of her life she feels a gift is in order. She has taken a certain item from her kitchen cupboard (a well known, somewhat expensive brand of dishware) which she hasn't used very much, shined it up to look new, been to a department store to nab the sticker off a brand-new similar item to stick on the one at home and stuck a random barcode on the bottom of it. It will be gift-wrapped with a nice card and given to the happy couple.
Stingetastic.
I'll give it a pass for the sheer craftiness of it. Definitely stingy though.0 -
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Not sure if this is stingy or super-thrifty
A relative has a neighbour whose daughter is getting married soon. She has been invited to the wedding but won't be going, however since she has known the bride most of her life she feels a gift is in order. She has taken a certain item from her kitchen cupboard (a well known, somewhat expensive brand of dishware) which she hasn't used very much, shined it up to look new, been to a department store to nab the sticker off a brand-new similar item to stick on the one at home and stuck a random barcode on the bottom of it. It will be gift-wrapped with a nice card and given to the happy couple.
I can't quite decide if this is stingy, super-thrifty or just plain genius!0
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