WTF? Weird Co-worker

[Kirby]

Bitch her out for it not being a Tractor Supply gift card?

 

[Vidda]

Nothing wrong with profiting from others' generosity, unless it makes you feel dirty.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
So I pull in to work this morning and I'm sitting in my car waiting for this radio skit to finish when one of my more weirder co-workers comes out of the building and starts walking towards my car. I had no idea what she wanted and rolled the window down. She handed me a $40 Macy's gift card and told me that God told her to give it to me. I told her I couldn't take it and that she should give it to somebody else that really needs it but she wouldn't have any of that. She said that because God told her to do this then she had to give it to me. So I thanked her and she walked away.

Besides her super-religiousness, she's OK most of the time. However, she did give me a $20 Starbucks gift card a couple of months ago for me helping her out with something at work.

If she's all into God then that's fine with me -- I don't care. But I really didn't appreciate that this morning. And before anybody says it, I'm not going to our supervisor and saying anything because I don't want to get things stirred up.

So ATOT, how would you have handled it?

Someone gives you a gift and all you can do is complain? You sound like an asshole. If there IS a GOD perhaps he/she is trying to teach you something through this gift - like stop being an asshole.

 

[halik]

Buy her something nice with it?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
1. Take gift card
1a. Say, "Gee golly darn tootin whiz, isn't that the sweetest motherfreakin' thing evar?"
2. Roll up window frantically
3. Gun the engine
4. Tyres screech, splashing mud all over her
4a. Do a donut or two in the lot and pull up next to her
4b. Roll down window and yell, "WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?"
4c. Head off to Macy's
5. ???
6. Profit!

I agree. :thumbsup:

 

[Krazy4Real]

I think the OP is weirder than the weird co-worker.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
Jesus christ, you acted like she came over and kicked your dog. She's very religious, and believes her god told her to do something nice for you....so what? Radical Islamists are blowing people up by the hundreds, and your offended because a fundamentalist Christian gave you a gift? Grow the fuck up.

What?
No, she didn't. If someone kicked her dog, she'd probably express anger. I see no anger in the OP.
Consider a little of your own advice

 

[Xavier434]

I would say thank you and be polite because I really don't know what else to do. Her reasons for deciding to be nice and selfless don't matter much here I don't think. There are too many selfish people in the world who do not give a crap about you to question very many of those kinds of reasons.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
Jesus christ, you acted like she came over and kicked your dog. She's very religious, and believes her god told her to do something nice for you....so what? Radical Islamists are blowing people up by the hundreds, and your offended because a fundamentalist Christian gave you a gift? Grow the fuck up.

:laugh:

 

[MisterJackson]

Sounds to me like your on her "People NOT to shoot" list when she finally flips out at work. I'd take it as a good omen.

 

[m1ldslide1]

I'm amazed that so many people are getting the word "offended" out of the OP. It's not that he's offended at the offering, as he has made clear. :roll:

It's just that only a nutjob decides that God has deigned necessary to inform him/her of the divine need to purchase a Macy's giftcard for a random co-worker. If somebody was really being spake upon by the lord, wouldn't you imagine that He would require her $50 to go to some hungry child or some other worthy cause? How does it jive with biblical tradition that her $50 should go to a wealthy corporation? Therefore lady = nutjob.

The OP clearly did the polite thing in trying to refuse it, which is what you're supposed to do when strangers or crazy people try to give you money, and then continued with polite etiquette when he graciously accepted after it was clear she was compelled by Christ to bequeath it.

It's an awkward situation that would make me uncomfortable, but I would act in the same way. That's why Smoochy posted, is to see if there are alternate ways of handling an awkward situation gracefully.

 

[Mxylplyx]

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
I'm amazed that so many people are getting the word "offended" out of the OP. It's not that he's offended at the offering, as he has made clear. :roll:

It's just that only a nutjob decides that God has deigned necessary to inform him/her of the divine need to purchase a Macy's giftcard for a random co-worker. If somebody was really being spake upon by the lord, wouldn't you imagine that He would require her $50 to go to some hungry child or some other worthy cause? How does it jive with biblical tradition that her $50 should go to a wealthy corporation? Therefore lady = nutjob.

The OP clearly did the polite thing in trying to refuse it, which is what you're supposed to do when strangers or crazy people try to give you money, and then continued with polite etiquette when he graciously accepted after it was clear she was compelled by Christ to bequeath it.

It's an awkward situation that would make me uncomfortable, but I would act in the same way. That's why Smoochy posted, is to see if there are alternate ways of handling an awkward situation gracefully.

The op saying he "didnt appreciate it" generally implies he was offended.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
I'm amazed that so many people are getting the word "offended" out of the OP. It's not that he's offended at the offering, as he has made clear. :roll:

It's just that only a nutjob decides that God has deigned necessary to inform him/her of the divine need to purchase a Macy's giftcard for a random co-worker. If somebody was really being spake upon by the lord, wouldn't you imagine that He would require her $50 to go to some hungry child or some other worthy cause? How does it jive with biblical tradition that her $50 should go to a wealthy corporation? Therefore lady = nutjob.

The OP clearly did the polite thing in trying to refuse it, which is what you're supposed to do when strangers or crazy people try to give you money, and then continued with polite etiquette when he graciously accepted after it was clear she was compelled by Christ to bequeath it.

It's an awkward situation that would make me uncomfortable, but I would act in the same way. That's why Smoochy posted, is to see if there are alternate ways of handling an awkward situation gracefully.

The op saying he "didnt appreciate it" generally implies he was offended.

:thumbsup:

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
So I pull in to work this morning and I'm sitting in my car waiting for this radio skit to finish when one of my more weirder co-workers comes out of the building and starts walking towards my car. I had no idea what she wanted and rolled the window down. She handed me a $40 Macy's gift card and told me that God told her to give it to me. I told her I couldn't take it and that she should give it to somebody else that really needs it but she wouldn't have any of that. She said that because God told her to do this then she had to give it to me. So I thanked her and she walked away.

Besides her super-religiousness, she's OK most of the time. However, she did give me a $20 Starbucks gift card a couple of months ago for me helping her out with something at work.

If she's all into God then that's fine with me -- I don't care. But I really didn't appreciate that this morning. And before anybody says it, I'm not going to our supervisor and saying anything because I don't want to get things stirred up.

So ATOT, how would you have handled it?

Wait... you're insulted because a religious person handed you $40 out of the goodness of her heart?

Where in any of that did I say I was insulted? I said I didn't appreciate it (meaning how she did it but I didn't make that especially clear in the OP). Regardless, I graciously accepted it and that's it. I was so nice I didn't even make devil horns at her when she was walking away.

Oh noes... she walked over to your car while you were in it with your windows up to deliver it in person...

Are you sure its not why she did it that you didnt like as instead of how she did it?

 

[imported_Imp]

Bah, that's nothing. I've worked at a place where a church group with real religious people, not horny teenagers looking for something social. During Christmas or any major event, they gave me small gifts and also told me God wanted me to have it or something along those lines. Just take it and thank the lord.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: kranky
I have had the same experience (from the giving side, not the OP's).

:thumbsup:

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
Will it kill you to accept something that'll make someone feel better? Accept it graciously, give it to someone else if you don't want it - someone who needs it

^ what he said. OR mail it to me.

 

[rezinn]

Take the hint. She thinks you need to dress better.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
So I pull in to work this morning and I'm sitting in my car waiting for this radio skit to finish when one of my more weirder co-workers comes out of the building and starts walking towards my car. I had no idea what she wanted and rolled the window down. She handed me a $40 Macy's gift card and told me that God told her to give it to me. I told her I couldn't take it and that she should give it to somebody else that really needs it but she wouldn't have any of that. She said that because God told her to do this then she had to give it to me. So I thanked her and she walked away.

Besides her super-religiousness, she's OK most of the time. However, she did give me a $20 Starbucks gift card a couple of months ago for me helping her out with something at work.

If she's all into God then that's fine with me -- I don't care. But I really didn't appreciate that this morning. And before anybody says it, I'm not going to our supervisor and saying anything because I don't want to get things stirred up.

So ATOT, how would you have handled it?

Wait... you're insulted because a religious person handed you $40 out of the goodness of her heart?

Where in any of that did I say I was insulted? I said I didn't appreciate it (meaning how she did it but I didn't make that especially clear in the OP). Regardless, I graciously accepted it and that's it. I was so nice I didn't even make devil horns at her when she was walking away.

Oh noes... she walked over to your car while you were in it with your windows up to deliver it in person...

Are you sure its not why she did it that you didnt like as instead of how she did it?

Are you sure that it's not because of why she did it that you can't see she's a nutjob?

 

[cirrrocco]

ATOT is lagging...Was this religious person hawt..and yes we need pics.!!.tell her god told you to share her pics with ATOT

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: rezinn
Take the hint. She thinks you need to dress better.

OP stinks, she was being nice in her way of telling him that he stinks, cover up that odor with some cologne.

 

[isekii]

you should have asked her if God told her to offer you anything else and winked

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: isekii
you should have asked her if God told her to offer you anything else and winked

We haven't seen the pics yet.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: rezinn
Take the hint. She thinks you need to dress better.

No, that's definitely not it. :laugh:

 

[Kelemvor]

I would have said:

"Uhhh, OK. Thanks."