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Funny leaving gifts for colleagues.

Your coworker is leaving. Maybe for a better job, maybe because a better job was given to a language model. Either way, they need a mug.

The leaving gifts colleagues actually laugh at

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How to pick a funny leaving gift

A good leaving gift does one job: it makes the person laugh at their desk on the last day, then sits on their new desk and keeps doing that. Office humour works best when it is about the office, not about the person. Joke about meetings, HR, the badge that stops working on Friday, the AI that will now do their job without complaining. Never joke about their actual work.

  • ▪Pick something they will use daily. A mug or a mousepad gets seen 300 times a year. A novelty plaque gets seen once, then lives in a drawer.
  • ▪Match the joke to the exit. Leaving for a new job: anything goes. Retiring: the HR mug. Made redundant: read our redundancy gift guide first.
  • ▪Add a card. Most people remember the card longer than the gift. There are fifty funny leaving card messages here if the team goes blank.
  • ▪Spend what the collection allows. Everything in our shop is printed on demand by Redbubble, so a sticker costs a few pounds and a hoodie costs more. Prices are shown in your currency there.

Leaving gifts by budget

  • ▪Under 5: a sticker for the laptop they are about to hand back, or a pin for their lanyard.
  • ▪Under 20: a mug. The most popular leaving gift in every office we have ever deprecated.
  • ▪Under 30: a mousepad, coasters or a tote bag for carrying the desk plant out.
  • ▪Whole-team collection: a tee or hoodie plus a mug, with the card signed by everyone. AI will sign too. It signs everything.

Why our leaving gifts are about AI

Deprecation.org is a satirical site where AI tells you the date your job gets automated. You can check your own role here. The shop is what the AI sells the humans on the way out. Every design is a line HR would say if HR were finally being honest. They work just as well for someone leaving for a normal reason, which is still most people. For now.

Questions

What is a good funny leaving gift for a colleague?
Something they will use every day with a joke about work, not about them. A mug that says “Please return this mug to HR by Friday.” is the bestseller here because it works for anyone who is leaving, for any reason.
How much should you spend on a leaving gift for a coworker?
From one person, a sticker, card or mug is plenty. A team collection usually covers a mug plus a tee or hoodie. Spend what is collected; nobody checks the receipt.
Are funny leaving gifts appropriate?
Usually, when the joke is about the company and not the person. If the person is upset about leaving, pick something gentle and save the jokes for the card.
How do the gifts ship?
Every product is printed to order and shipped by Redbubble, worldwide. Prices, sizes and delivery dates are on each product page.

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