As a company we are one suppliers' biggest customer in the UK- Bar none.
We probably spend between four and five million pounds per year with them. Our present from them this year, to share around the salesforce and the applications dept - a total of eight people?
Nothing. Zip. Diddley-squat.
Great bit of PR there guys - well done.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sat 28 Dec 2013, 9:45, 1 reply)

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..some companies have strict ethical rules about gifts. My company (a mahoosive multi-national engineering company) rules it gross misconduct to give anything to anyone for anything. We do send out xmas cards though.

All the gifts we get from subbies goes into the christmas raffle, which usually makes it pretty much impossible not to win something. Some years there's more prizes than raffle tickets...
(inflateable, Sat 28 Dec 2013, 11:05, closed)

Never used to be like that though.
In the 90s, we'd usually get enough booze to last till Easter from clients. The two weeks leading up till Christmas, I used to take a wheelie suitcase to work with me to haul it all home.

Some of them had our home addresses, and would have hampers delivered.

Now we get fuck all. I have to say, unusually, this year someone sent me two bottles of champagne, but last year it was zero.

Bah. Humbug.
(username failed moderation, Mon 30 Dec 2013, 11:30, closed)