Friday fun: best (or worst) gift you have had from a client?

[d000hg]

Inspired by Courty (https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ml#post2842114)

Has anyone had notably good or awful gifts from a client or employer that make for a fun Friday afternoon read? Maybe for Christmas, retirement or leaving a contract.

Best I can offer to start us off is a client asking if they could pay me a bonus at the end of the year which caught me totally off-guard. IIRC it was a couple of grand so monetarily a pretty substantial gift but not immensely exciting as a story! I should've spent it on something fancy but it just became a bit of extra billing for the year.

[ladymuck]

The consultancy I'm working with (not the end client) sent us all a Cornish Hamper containing half a dozen mince pies, two small Christmas puddings and some clotted cream.

That's the only Christmas gift I've ever had since I've been trading.

There's been small stuff on an individual/personal level where I've made friends.

[Paddy]

Nothing bad, Whisky quite often, best two days extra pay.

[courtg9000]

The three boxes that arrived last night were definitely not usual.
Its usually a bottle of something good or occasionally an invite to an event such as Wimbledon, Henley or Ascot.
Many moons ago (20 years) when on contract to an oil firm that have petrol stations I got a pile of car wash vouchers at Christmas!

[vetran]

Normally a nice bottle of scotch.



A mate of mine did some work for a large butchers and he got a few joints/ dead chickens.

[darmstadt]

Always getting stuff from clientco in the USA. So far this year, that I can recall:

- an original WWII lighter from US Air Force HQ when based in Frankfurt
- an original framed and signed Dilbert print for the home office wall
- a Marshall stack fridge for the home office

Last Christmas I received, among other things, a huge tin of sugared peanuts from a Virigina farm which I'm still getting through and a Christmas tree ornament from the White House of the President's helicopter (I tend to get quite a few things from there, I think one of the bosses daughters works there.)

[GhostofTarbera]

A 10Kg frozen turkey !! Handed out last day before Xmas break as we were heading for the boozer

Lost mine


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[d000hg]

A mate of mine did some work for a large butchers and he got a few joints/ dead chickens.

A 10Kg frozen turkey !! Handed out last day before Xmas break as we were heading for the boozer

Lost mine

If that's not made up that's brilliant, I picture a bunch of people turning up each with a defrosting dead bird.

[courtg9000]

If that's not made up that's brilliant, I picture a bunch of people turning up each with a defrosting dead bird.

When I were a lad a friend of the family worked at a localish factory. On Christmas Eve the factory workers would line up the MD would come down shake each workers hand, give them a turkey and then they could leave until new year.

[d000hg]

A not insubstantial gift.