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    Image of Ogiri W Surie Ogiri W Surie
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    I'm glad to have ever gotten anything. In my career at the Daily News I got from the first year to my last, absolutely nothing.

    This year I actually got two (!) items with a combined value of perhaps just over $20.

    After a prolonged famine, having some bones to boil into stock is better than nothing. Merry Recession to all!
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    My company makes everyone write letters to 'Santa' and from those submitted, 6 people will be selected and get the thing they wrote for (has to be under $100).
    I still don't know if they draw the names, or pick the letters they liked the best.
    Needless to say, in the 4 years I've worked there I've come home empty handed.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    Ah, some company scrip. Shucks guys, you really shouldn't have.
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    Image of yourfriendandneighbor yourfriendandneighbor
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    Do they at least hold your hair while you throw it up after?
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    "Food for thought". Because the only thing to do with food at Conde Nast is think about it.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    I would much rather get a gift card than any of the other things? This is a large step up from a glass bowl (which looks to be worth about $15 so it doesn't seem like they've stepped down in terms of pricing here).
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    Image of bombed_pop bombed_pop
    12/17/09

    @allyzay: that glass bowl was Orrefors! Not cheap. $15 at their own cafeteria is cheap.

    I'm in the minority on the Orrefors for Conde 2005 bowl, but I like it.

    [www.orrefors.us]
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    12/17/09

    @allyzay: Lambertson Truex is a crazy-expensive leather goods and accessories brand. Unless the aforesaid bag was made out of cardboard/cloth, I think Conde Nast's Xmas party favors definitely peaked in 2006.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    Nobody at Conde Nasty eats food anyway, that card will easily last a year.

    Although yeah, it DOES remind me of the year every one of my friends got an iPod from their boss and I got slipper socks from mine.
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    Image of 1WordUp 1WordUp
    12/17/09

    @raincoaster: I can pretty well track the health of the economy via my holiday gifts from work.

    2005: North Face jacket
    2006: Nano
    2007: Fila hoodie
    2008: Nothing
    2009: Company raffle for 75 gift cards, including 3 lucky souls who received $50 cards to The Olive Garden. I got nada.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/17/09

    @1WordUp: Seriously, there's an opera in this somewhere.
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    Image of 1WordUp 1WordUp
    12/17/09

    @raincoaster: Ha! Actually, I forgot - my next door neighbor is a delivery guy for Thomas's, so when he found out I lost my job last December, he gave me a crate of English muffins (seriously). Thanks Jimmy!

    I'd still trade English muffins against Olive Garden any day, to be honest.
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    Image of Tattertotter Tattertotter
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    My boss cut everyone's pay by 4% last month and Christmas presents just arrived this morning: a Starbucks card for $5 and a note saying "Thanks a latte!" I'm giving mine to the first homeless person I see on the street.
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    We get $15 gift cards to Wal-Mart. But I think this one is much worse.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    In 1990, Prudential Securities got rid of the dental plan, then gave us sugary toffee brittle as a Christmas gift. More than one wag in the law department stuffed the "candy" in an interoffice envelope, smashed it up with their shoe, and sent it anonymously to the CEO. His assistant went wild after opening up about 20 of these and circulated a curt memo. This produced more toffee in the mail basket. Good times!

    And yes, I did it too.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    The question is, and I can't believe you didn't tell us this, what will $15 buy you in the Nasty Cafeteria?
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    Image of Volsciana Volsciana
    12/17/09

    @bytememehard: Revenge, served cold.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/17/09

    @bytememehard: Hot buttered me.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    12/17/09

    @bytememehard: The non-sarcastic answer is 2 days of lunch (possibly three, depending on how much you eat), which is not a bad gift. There are days, hungover days, where I'd kill a man for 2 free lunches. Their cafeteria is nice! Not, like, Google nice, but nice!
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    Image of Thatcornellguy Thatcornellguy
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    oh come on Gawker at least they're not tossing around money frivolously in light of cutbacks, firings, and getting rid of magazines. yeah, its a shitty gift, but at least its appropriate. you would have skewered them too if the staffers actually received something nice.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    FWIW, my News Corpse interwebs gifts 1994-1997 went like this:

    94: overnight bag
    95: bike messenger bag
    96: remaindered Harper Collins vegetarian cookbook
    97: VHS of Independence Day.

    No one can lower the bar better than Uncle Rupert.
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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    12/17/09

    In reply to Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift
    Cafeteria should never precede Gift Card.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/08/09

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    "aight" was dated even before "lol" was.
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