🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟
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Mike’s Other Machiavellian Transgressions
Strategic Alliances for Personal Gain: Befriends influential colleagues not out of genuine interest but to secure personal gain or inside information
Information Control: Withholding critical data to maintain leverage and appear indispensable.
Power Consolidation: publicly supports a popular policy while secretly lobbying for legislation that benefits their donors.
Divide and Rule: Creating factions within a group to weaken rivals and strengthen personal influence.
Calculated Flattery: Complimenting someone excessively to gain trust and later exploit that trust for favors.
Feigning Vulnerability: Pretending to be in distress to manipulate others into providing help or concessions.
False Deadlines: Imposing artificial time pressure to force the other party into a quick, less favorable decision.
Selective Disclosure: Revealing only partial truths to steer the outcome toward personal advantage.
So did I. I just sent a grovelling email, begging to be let in out of the cold...
No Som Besths for you.
I shock even myself sometimes.
How did you get your hands on the PMSS Christmas Commissar Handbook?!Mike’s Other Machiavellian Transgressions
Strategic Alliances for Personal Gain: Befriends influential colleagues not out of genuine interest but to secure personal gain or inside information
Information Control: Withholding critical data to maintain leverage and appear indispensable.
Power Consolidation: publicly supports a popular policy while secretly lobbying for legislation that benefits their donors.
Divide and Rule: Creating factions within a group to weaken rivals and strengthen personal influence.
Calculated Flattery: Complimenting someone excessively to gain trust and later exploit that trust for favors.
Feigning Vulnerability: Pretending to be in distress to manipulate others into providing help or concessions.
False Deadlines: Imposing artificial time pressure to force the other party into a quick, less favorable decision.
Selective Disclosure: Revealing only partial truths to steer the outcome toward personal advantage.
I hope to have the Second Wave of matches out tonight!
If you don't get an email from me tonight, please do not hesitate to panic and overreact!
If you don't get an email from me tonight, please do not hesitate to panic and overreact!
Nah I’m going to panic and run amok.
Yes! My match arrived in my inbox. Thanks, Santa Mike!
Match received, commencing operation: "CODGER SCIATICA".
Got my match! No username included so Santa Mike saved me hours of scouring the site to find any preferences my victim super lucky match may have!
Got my match! Let the games begin! I hope they like Virginias that smell like lawn clippings cause it might be lawn clippings. And Captain Black Grape.
WHEN YOU'RE SANTA YOU CAN TYPE AS YOU PLEASE.
And just like that, the matches are *almost done*. I say almost because there is a small snag with the final match, but that is a Santa problem, not your problem.
You should all have an email now informing you who your match is. Some of you are extra lucky in that I didnt include their screen name. The simple reason for that is because I am not that bright. Please IM me and I will give you their screen name, or you can just send it off blind.
As always, please update me in the thread (don't email) that you've sent your package, and when you receive yours. That way, we can further the special caste system we have for Top Listers and Bottom Listers.
Now comes the real fun part of the thread, mostly because my work is pretty much done.
Som Besths!
If cosmic wants to play I’m happy to also be his match. In fact any late comers are welcome to send me stuff.