There is a new survey about how many bosses plan to give gifts to their employees this holiday - quite a few, it turns out - and how many employees plan to reciprocate - not too many, it seems.  That sounds about right, and I’m sure my boss is planning something generous.

But anyway, here is the best part. There is a section about the most unusual holiday gifts people have seen exchanged in the office, and the results are very entertaining:

- a gift certificate to a strip club
- underwear
- used make-up
- a used cookbook stained with food.

And the very worst of all the bad office gifts reported?  A bottle of vodka for a recovering alcoholic.  Suddenly I see a sequel to O.Henry’s classic short story “Gift of the Magi” coming on….  Here is our story, by Ellen Wulfhorst:

Bottles from a new line of premium vodka affiliated with Donald Trump and bearing the name Trump Super Premium Vodka are seen in this photograph taken in New York City, October 6, 2006.  REUTERS/Lucas Jackson