Sometimes I really love being in marketing. Especially around the holidays because we get presents from our vendors as a thank you for dutifully spending our company's budget dollars with them. I'm sure our sales team sends gifts to their top customers as well - as this is just common practice. Usually we get a gift basket from places like Harry & David or Wine Country Baskets but this year people got creative and we ended up with loads of run stuff.Picture above is of a half eaten box of Shari's Berries. I remember Forrest's mom talking about these awhile back...and they really are that good - such a wonderful treat that I was forced to share because some berries were dipped in milk or dark chocolate..heehee
The evil empire really outdid themselves this year and gave me an Apple iPod Shuffle. I don't remember getting a gift from them last year but the shuffle is a nice touch, especially since I am pushing through a big budget line item for Google next year.
Our ad agency got pretty creative and sent a big bath set gift basket in a red leather gift basket container thingy. Maybe they think I smell - HAHAHAHA. It's funny because the mailroom guy stops by our cube, then we call everyone else over and we pick through all the items in the gift baskets and everyone goes home with a few things....
2 comments:
how very socialist of you...just kidding! I share, that's good enough
these gifts don't really sway my purchasing decision...right now Google is the only search engine game in town so I gotta pay them.
I jokingly refer to them as the evil empire because they try to do everything.
evil empire commercial title can remain with microsoft.
google can have consumer evil empire title..hahahah really - providing every service under the guise of "free" so they can just charge millions in contextual advertising while reading your emails, monitoring your online habits....it's brilliant and horrifying all at the same time.
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