Work Raffles

[Runk]

My work has what's called a Social Club.
They provide all employees and those who are members (like me) things like discounted movie tickets, cheap gifts for family members and discounted tickets for any BBQ's or Social functions (Lawn Bowls etc) put on during the year. It costs about $50 a year to be a part of all of this, which for the most part sounds pretty sweet.

Anyhoo, every year my workplace organises a Xmas raffle giving away numerous gifts totalling around $5000. Each year I buy about $30 worth of tickets thinking I've got myself a shot at something cool. This year the pick of the bunches was either an iPod or Commonwealth Games tickets to the Opening Ceremony and Hockey events. I play hockey so they were a drawcard this year.

Foolishly I forgot that my work employs around 650 staff. Needless to say I didn't win a damn thing when the raffle was drawn today. Instead the two people who won the two prizes I wanted the most, are total and utter douchebags. The guy that won the iPod already has two and was telling everyone about it. Jackass. The guy who won the Hockey tickets was my General Manager. RIGGED!

Needless to say my urge to kill is rising and I may burn this place down at the end of the week if I don't get my stapler back!

Anyone else been jibbed at work?

 

[wez10000]

I was jibbed in the Richmond Tigers Training Night Raffle last Thursday , They had a Raffle with 3 prizes up for grabs. 1st place gets to go in the Tigers Rooms before the R1 match vs the Western Bulldogs at the TD to listen to Terry talk to the Players Ect..., 2nd wins a Signed Richmond Guernsy and a Football, 3rd place wins a Footy. Now the tickets where $2 each or 3 for $5 so i thought i would buy 3 so i gave them $5 and they rip out 3 tickets out of the book and i put them strait into my Wallet without looking what numbers they where, When the raffle gets drawn the first place winner was ticket number 8670, So i grabed the tickets from my wallet and the first i see in there was ticket number 8669 and i was like yes ive won it, then i flick to the next ticket and it was number 8671 and im like maybe i mixed them up and then i look at the last ticket i have and it was number 8672 and im like ******** i was ripped off. Now i dont think someone was just gonna walk up and ask for ticket number 8670 because it was there lucky number, It was not in the book so it was Rigged .

 

[Swifty_446]

I was jibbed in the Richmond Tigers Training Night Raffle last Thursday , They had a Raffle with 3 prizes up for grabs. 1st place gets to go in the Tigers Rooms before the R1 match vs the Western Bulldogs at the TD to listen to Terry talk to the Players Ect..., 2nd wins a Signed Richmond Guernsy and a Football, 3rd place wins a Footy. Now the tickets where $2 each or 3 for $5 so i thought i would buy 3 so i gave them $5 and they rip out 3 tickets out of the book and i put them strait into my Wallet without looking what numbers they where, When the raffle gets drawn the first place winner was ticket number 8670, So i grabed the tickets from my wallet and the first i see in there was ticket number 8669 and i was like yes ive won it, then i flick to the next ticket and it was number 8671 and im like maybe i mixed them up and then i look at the last ticket i have and it was number 8672 and im like ******** i was ripped off. Now i dont think someone was just gonna walk up and ask for ticket number 8670 because it was there lucky number, It was not in the book so it was Rigged .

1st prize sounds like it should be last prize.

 

[mandy]

Sometimes at our all staff meetings, we have raffles. Everyone gets a ticket as they walk into the show room and at the end they draw the winner.

Yesterday I was running late, and as I got up stairs I noticed Kent from marketing (one of several workers on crutches after having knee re-co's following the corporate games) trying to open the door to reception. I opened the door to let him in.

As we walked into the show room, I let him go ahead of me. He got a raffle ticket, then I got the next one.

You know what happened, don't you? THAT WAS MY BLOODY BLACK 54!

End result - Kent walks (or limps) away with a motorised Barbie car and Mandy remembers to never help anyone else again!

 

[arrowman]

... Now i dont think someone was just gonna walk up and ask for ticket number 8670 because it was there lucky number, It was not in the book so it was Rigged .

Sometimes when people buy multiple raffle tickets they don't take them in sequence, they take them from different parts of the book. Or if they're buying one they don't take the next one, they choose one at random from somewhere else in the book. Makes no difference of course but that's what some people do.

So it's quite possible someone had already bought ticket #8670 even with 8669 and 8671 being still in the book.

Or you might be right.

 

[Kingpin]

We always have the weekly raffles held at the bowl for various leagues.
About ten years back I played in the Monday morning league and the same woman won the raffle 11 weeks in a row.

Actually coming to think of it, about 5 years back there was a very sizeable car-raffle being held for one of the touring bowling teams from here - they were not a state team as such, but a group that went to a different state each year to play against other groups from the mainland.
They went to a lot of trouble selling tickets all throughout the city, even gathering sponsorship from a prominant radio station in this city telling them that they were the "State Team" (when in actual fact they were not the State Team, and were not anywhere near up to that playing standard) with the main prize being some very modern Holden worth a fair quid.
There were also many other nice prizes as well up for grabs.

Unfortunately, most of the committee and their close friends somehow were "lucky" enough to win most of the big prizes
It was noticed that just about all of these players got out of the sport not longer after this was noticed, and word got round the centre.
This particular organisation - which had had a strong membership during its heyday - no longer exists now, so tarnished was their reputation over that.

 

[roge_3]

Sometimes at our all staff meetings, we have raffles. Everyone gets a ticket as they walk into the show room and at the end they draw the winner.

Yesterday I was running late, and as I got up stairs I noticed Kent from marketing (one of several workers on crutches after having knee re-co's following the corporate games) trying to open the door to reception. I opened the door to let him in.

As we walked into the show room, I let him go ahead of me. He got a raffle ticket, then I got the next one.

You know what happened, don't you? THAT WAS MY BLOODY BLACK 54!

End result - Kent walks (or limps) away with a motorised Barbie car and Mandy remembers to never help anyone else again!

Ha.. Hate when this happens... Being around a football club I see this so often... The last raffle we had the guy with the winning ticket went home.. Of course Raffle was drawn, no one knew who had won.. So time for a re-draw.. I re-drew the raffle and the winning ticket was mine... The guy returned 45 mins later and came and saw me... Told me his ticket was the one that was drawn... What should I have done here...? I split the prize with him.. He took the bottle of plonk, I took the meat tray.. Should I have given him the whole lot??? If it was someone else he woulda got squat.. But seeing as though I ran the thing I thought it would be wrong not to give him something.