Today, I was given a $25 gift certificate for being Employee Of The Week. The gift certificate was 6 months past its expiration date. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my employer gave me a gift to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my hire date. It would have been a really nice gesture if they weren't laying me off at the end of the month. FML
Today, after three years of working at my current occupation, they decided to give me a bonus for all of my hard work and effort. A 5$ gift card to Cold Stone. FML
Today, I found a gift card under my bed that I lost a few months ago for $400 to a store that went out of business last week. FML
Today, I received the "employee of the month" title from the job I was fired from last week. FML
Today, I was fired from my job over a coupon a coworker offered me for bonus reward points. Apparently, it wasn't one I was entitled to. I never even looked at the coupon and assumed it was fine since they offered it to me. FML
Today, it's my birthday, and my coworkers gave me a $75 gift card to a restaurant chain near my house. Later in the evening, I found out the chain of restaurants abruptly closed. All of them. FML
Today, I gave my boss a gift card as a late birthday present, since I wasn't in the office on his actual birthday. He accused me of trying to bribe my way to a promotion, and suspended me on the spot. FML
Today, the gift my mother had mailed me for my birthday finally arrived. It was a gift card for Starbucks. A gift card that had already been redeemed. FML
Today, I received a $20 gift card to Tim Horton's as a prize, and decided to use it. At the register, I was told that I'd essentially won an empty gift card. FML
Today, my boss decided that a mug and a public 'thank you' were a sufficient substitute for a Christmas bonus. FML
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schwancy 2
Re-gift!
FFML_314 12
I think your boss is trying to tell you something...
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schwancy 2
Re-gift!
lilman02 0
Can I have it?
FYLDeep 26
Don't worry about it. You're probably not even the "Employee Of The Week" anymore.
sundayporch 2
Check with your state law and see if it's illegal for gift cards to expire; most states have changed it so it is illegal for them to expire, I believe.
starile 20
Um.. I think if it works like a coupon, it's pretty normal for those things to expire, right?
sundayporch 2
Like I said, it depends on your state. It shouldn't work like a coupon though - it's money. Cash doesn't expire, doesn't it? So why should a gift card?
Jewelofagal 2
A gift certificate can expire if it was not purchased from the store, but rather was donated by the store. If that's the case, the store isn't obligated to honor the certificate forever, but is wise to set an expiration date so the liability can be written off the store books after a certain date.
mailerd 3
in England like all gift cards have an expiration date...
TurboTalon 0
In Cali gift cards don't expire despite there being an expiration date.
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
In some places, a gift card won't technically expire, but a certain amount is deducted from your balance each month, past a set time frame. For example, if I buy a Visa gift card at Walmart, I get one year of free usage. If I haven't used it after a year, I can either liquidate the card for a fee, or "pay" 90 cents a month to keep it valid, through a balance deduction. It's pretty sneaky. OP specified a gift certificate, though, not a card. If it's a small business, they may honor it anyway. If not, I'd be knocking on my supervisor's door.
FFML_314 12
I think your boss is trying to tell you something...
Doortje 30
^ this.
canadian_ftw 8
re-gift it to the person who gave it to you :P
boritom 1
That's what you get for working for that one Arizona-based online university.
rlerke 0
you're an idiot.
20waffleater10 0
YDI for being a good employee in a dead end job!
hnz 13
your company is such a Scrooge!
MAGNAVOX 0
YDI for working at GoodWill. And for shoplifting from the $1.00 section.
feenicks 0
You're still 'Employee of the Week', … just not this week!