Picture this: You're at the company holiday gift exchange. The co-worker who's drawn your name hands you something that, wrapped, looks promising. Anxiously, you open it to find — a talking fly swatter! "Look out fly, you're about to die!" it chirps at you.

The scenario may be a piece of fiction, but someone actually received a talking fly swatter from a fellow employee as a holiday gift.

This intelligence comes to us from Careerbuilder, which commissioned a Harris Interactive survey designed to elicit information about holiday perks and other related subject matter. More than 5,500 workers and HR types were polled.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.

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