Anyone else get peed off when you get asked to give money for a whip round for a gift?

I'll sign cards for peopel I merely know. But for people in my team or I have worked closely with then I will donate.
 
we used to just pass a card around + a separate envelope for money, if you know the person & want to donate you sign the card and put in some money then pass it along, if you don't know them or don't want to donate you don't sign the card and you pass it along

alternatively we might get an e-mail saying there is a card/collection for person X's leaving gift at reception if anyone would like to sign/donate

either approach is simple, minimum fuss and avoids any issue as per the OP
 
I have no issue with it. If you work in a big organisation you will see a lot of whip around's/envelopes coming around for collections, and it starts to become non-important (which is a shame).
 
Weird in our place if you have a baby (or grandkid) or its your birthday YOU bring in cakes etc for your section/team.

Collections are only for retirements, or someone who's on long term sick and struggling a bit.

If you came around and went "daves turning 50 next week" the reply would be "ooo great I hope he brings in those mini brownies I love them"
 
Nope. Used to work at a very large warehouse with a lot of people. I was asked quite a lot of times if I could donate money for some person I'd never even seen/heard of. I always politely refused. I'll sign a leaving card for someone (if I actually know them), but I've never expected anything from anybody in work so I don't expect to have to give anything either.
 
Nope. I'm not tight, normally comes around. But then we do the whole birthday thing much better - the person whose birthday it is has to bring in cakes. It seems backwards, but it saves worrying about it and you get to abuse the person when they don't bring in cakes.
 
I feel your pain OP and I always feel obliged to put £2 in no matter who it's for or what for.
I wouldn't like to add up how much I've put in over the last 5 years in the department.
 
Haha, if I don't like them I just don't put any in or a ting amount.
The other tactic is to 'disappear' at the critical moment.
 
Depends on the person really and if it's a big birthday. However never seen anything of it myself, even in my last company when I left after 7 years didn't even get a card!
 
We do whip rounds in our office but only for when people leave. It becomes slightly annoying though as turn over of staff can't be quite high sometimes and feels like there is constantly emails flying round asking people to contribute to people's leaving collections.

I wouldn't mind but half of the people mentioned work in some of our other offices and I might see said person a handful of times in a year.

That being said, i will only contribute if I actually know them and have no issues with telling the person collecting!
 
Thekwango said:
Yup, I as a rule don't give if I don't particularly like the person. I'll happily tell the person doing the whip round that I don't like said person so ain't contributing.
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This. Always a pain in large open plan offices where you don't know half the people.

Worse if the half you do know are those you don't care for.
 
We get it here at my place a lot. Don't usually mind if it's someone I have met, but we get people come round from upstairs in the call centre asking for money for people I have never spoken too, and don't even know what they look like.
 
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