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So some rat bastards at the Mr's workplace screwed up the angel-tree

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They do an angel tree thing there--you know the type, "Jimmy, age 7, wants A talking Olaf and pants size 8" tags all over?

Some fuckwit either accidentally or intentionally took like 30 tags off of it.
Which, of course, means no one else is able to buy things for any of the kids on the tags.
And no-one will fess up and return the tags.

So kids who are tag-less are screwed.
(I told the Mr. to just figure out who to give $ to, because cash will be the only solution if they don't sort it out in the next few days)
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    Someone took them to be an ass or to be a giant anonymous Santa?
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    not sure the motivation.
    The problem being that the org doesn't want to make dup tags, in case someone is bringing all of these in...but they don't want to do nothing in case they're never going to be seen again.

    And all of those tags aren't there for the rest of people to buy for.
    So the Mr. can't grab little Suzy's tag and have us shop for her, because some idiot has little Suzy's tag in his wallet already.
    And they don't want to make a dup. little Suzy tag in case that someone's already doing that (and resources are pretty limited)...but if someone doesn't shop for Suzy soon, she's going to get jack and squat on Christmas morning.
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    If the person was just trying to be nice then they should speak up.  Anonymity to the coworkers is one thing, but not to the organizers.  At this point they should just duplicate the tags.  If duplicate gifts show up they can donate them to somewhere else.  It would also tip off someone trying to be nice to show themselves.

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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    Someone took like 20-30 tags.
    Someone who is in all likelihood, NOT buying for 20 kids.
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  • dharmabunnydharmabunny member
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    GAH!!!! And this kind of thing is why they just say eff it and shove United Way paycheck contribution drives down everyone's throats.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    This is a blue collar workplace where I doubt anyone who isn't a bigwig makes enough to do that.
    And since memos and emails and poster of "please let us know if you took all these tags" have been flying around the place for a week, I'd imagine someone who planned to be Santa would say "oh, yeah, we've got them, it's done, don't worry" instead of sitting there doing nothing about it.
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  • *Barbie**Barbie* member
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    couldn't they just solicit for additional donations - if you want to bring something without a specific tag we will gift it to a child who was missing/another needy child?

    The tree in our lobby has considerably less tags than people in our building - a lot of people will just bring in a gift without a tag and they will wrap and donate them grouped together by age appropriateness. 

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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    I'm hoping that's the plan--the Mr. works weird hours at the moment, so he hasn't heard any update on the fix yet.
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