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the boudoir photos, the date from Shopko, and other stories of holidays at work
- Holiday celebrations in offices provide many stories to tell, some funny, some awkward.
- One office had a Secret Santa gift exchange that ended in a prank where the decorations from the hotel were mistaken as presents.
- A firefighter's prank of taking boudoir photos and secretly leaving them on a colleague's dresser eventually came to light the following year in the form of a photo calendar.
- At a holiday party, one colleague's nine-year-old daughter inadvertently revealed her relationship status to colleagues.
- A White Elephant exchange gift of an oil painting of a colleague's mother in the style of Napoleon was jokingly compared to a $25 Starbucks gift card.
- One woman attended a holiday party alone and didn't want her colleagues to know, so she brought a salesman from a department store she had recently dealt with.
- Some holiday parties, like one for a social service agency, may be more of a training event rather than an actual party.
- A young child's honesty made for an uncomfortable moment when they told their grandboss that the holiday cookies "taste like shit."
- A Jewish doctor brought a Christmas dinner to work for the on-call team, impressing their colleagues with their husband's culinary skills.
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