Re: Official Secret Santa Christmas Exchange!
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:56 pmYeah next year we need to have a name by the 10th and a gift submission deadline by the 15th....
HT4 wrote:I received a slightly indignant PM demanding an explanation for why I didn't follow the rules and opened my package early. Since the PM referenced multiple people who were upset by my actions, I will respond publicly:
1 - there's no way in the world I would have taken a large sealed package from a mystery sender on a plane (that's actually a crime), which would have been required for a Christmas opening by me.
2 - The rules don't prohibit it -- at best, the rules assume a Christmas opening (which I personally think is a bit odd if we are trying to be inclusive).
To anyone upset/offended by my actions, please accept my (half-hearted) apology for not following the spirit of the rules.
I will not address this again in this thread, via PM or otherwise.
1 - Pretty sensible reasoning.
2 - Yeah, I don't see any such rule either. Even if there was one, who is it really harming by you opening your gift early, and what business is it of this person to become the enforcer of this alleged rule?
And I'll add #3 - In regards to the quote: "Since the PM referenced multiple people who were upset by my actions..." I'd be skeptical of there being multiple people upset by this. While I don't know all of them personally, the majority of the members participating in this project seem like a decent group of folks to me, most of them unlikely to get all riled up because you opened a present to yourself. I think it's more likely it's one person, whoever it was who sent the PM, who has taken it upon himself to be a Bossy Betty, perhaps inflating the numbers to try to add the weight of authority to this self-appointed guardianship of right and wrong.
I applaud the half-hearted nature of the apology.
