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ATM: the boss's 40th birthday
Posted by Skuds on 13 October 2011 - 6:14pm.
It is our boss's 40th birthday this month and everybody in the department has been invited along to his party at his local community centre.
We are racking our brains about what to get him.
Anything too risque is out: it will be a family event.
Anything extravagantly expensive could be seen as a bit toady-ish (and outside our means in these times of economic misery)
Anything too cheap is just, well, cheap.
A walking stick is too cliched.
We know he golfs a lot but that probably means he has everything golf-related that he needs.
Otherwise we just know he is a big fan of football/Spurs and Top Gear
Any suggestions welcome.
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How many of you are chipping in?
Excuse the golf analogy!
4 or 5
4 or 5 in the bunker
It isn't a big department
a gift subscription
to the Word?
Did you know?
He'll get some free podcasts with that, too!
Maybe a signed Spurs shirt?
http://www.totallygifts.co.uk/Football-Gifts/Tottenham-Hotspurs-Football...
You don't know how good that is
I'm sure that told us when he first joined the company, how it was that particular game that turned him to the dark side in the first place.
Nice bottle of scotch
Cant go wrong. Or a really nice bottle of bubbly (Perrier Jouet would guarantee a good appraisal from me).
Dodgy ground
Buying drinks, unless you know the recipient is a fan can be as fraught as any other area. Whenever someone gives us drink (unless it's beer), it just goes in the cupboard with the rest often gets poured down the sink because when we finally remember to get it out, it's expired (I realise that this won't happen with scotch but then that would just stay in the cupboard forever!)
Too true
Me and the Mrs both got various bottles on our 40ths.
I can't remember actually drinking any of them because neither of us really drink spirits, she doesn't drink wine, and come to think of it we hardly drink anything much at all.
Here's my suggestion
Gather whatever people feel they want to put in. If your boss likes whisky, buy a bottle of something nice (not a 40-year-old, they are more for collecting than drinking)
Or maybe a bottle of champagne, or a special bottle or two of wine.
With the rest of the money, buy Amazon vouchers (or vouchers for somewhere else if he/she has a favourite shop.)
We did that for a splendid chap who was my boss when he turned 50 - a nice bottle of Tomintoul and a voucher for Tam's Drams so he could buy himself something particular to his taste.
If your boss likes whisky (Slight Return)
A gift membership for The Scotch Malt Whisky Society.
http://www.smws.co.uk/
Buy him one of those
Word podcasts. Oh, hang on...
Just a thought
It is often said that people often give as presents what they really want for themselves.
A shame we can't get him a 20% pay rise...
As he likes Top Gear, how
As he likes Top Gear, how about a ticket for the Live shows at either ExCel or the NEC?
http://www.topgearlive.co.uk/ticket-prices/general-tickets
Jesus
he sounds like a barrel of laughs.
Get him a pringle sweater.
Hookers
A pair of Eastern Europeons
Stick them on expenses too
Go on, it's what he really wants
You could buy him a round of golf
at somewhere like The Belfry, we did for a golf mad colleague and he loved it, can't remember how much it was but they do some good off season deals.
If I really wanted to give my boss a nice surprise
I would do my job properly and conscientiously for once.
Ha ha
I'd say something nice about him behind his back.
Whisky. Cars. Golf.
Is your boss from central casting?
Moreover, are you in fact Terry Medford?
As Meat Loaf said...
...two out of three ain't bad.
I never mentioned whisky. It was all the dipsos here who quickly diverted the converstaion to alcohol.
Why let the truth intrude
when we're enjoying kicking around a good old stereotype?
Golf, Top Gear and Spurs?
Dear God, what do you get the man who likes everything shite?
Sensible suggestion..
A box of a dozen posh golf balls. Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1-X. Forty quid or so. Golfers all want to play with them but feel paranoid about losing them at £3.50 a pop and so buy cheapo ones instead.
He'll feel all chuffed.
Bigger balls
It turns out that my colleague happens to have a signed Spurs football which would do the trick. It arrived too late for her to raffle for her charity do the other week, so we can all chip in for a nice donation and try wrapping that.