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

[BR14]

got a Fortnum&mason's hamper from citibank back in the '80's.
not much elsewhen.

[NotAllThere]

I have to ask, what did you do with the leg of wild boar? That's a 12-hour cooking job, surely?

Not quite. It was six hours. Very tasty.

[darmstadt]

Does a Xmas BJ count as a present ?


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Only if you swallowed

[GhostofTarbera]

Does a Xmas BJ count as a present ?


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[Mordac]

A haunch of venison, a leg of wild boar and wild boar sausages. One of the directors of the company was a hunter.

I have to ask, what did you do with the leg of wild boar? That's a 12-hour cooking job, surely?

[NotAllThere]

A haunch of venison, a leg of wild boar and wild boar sausages. One of the directors of the company was a hunter.

[Mordac]

A big wad of VIP tickets for the London Eye from BA (who were the sponsors at the time). I'd have preferred lifetime gold membership, but they don't like giving those to contractors...

[d000hg]

A not insubstantial gift.

[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 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.

[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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[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.)

[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.

[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!

[Paddy]

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