Ok this actually happened last year at a company I thankfully don’t work for any longer.
I’ll keep it short but suffice to say it was a nightmare job at a small company.
At Christmas they sent an email asking everyone for money (I can’t remember how much but it was a good amount, I think I contributed like 30 bucks). They didn’t say what the gift would be, but that prior years it was a gift card to Trader Joe’s or similar.
As it turns out, I find out on Christmas Eve (that the owner forced us to work the full day while he took off), the actual gift was a framed poster of the owner’s face with a motivational quote. He ended up hanging it in his office.
I just thought it was the absolute strangest gift and I was like not happy to throw in money on something like that, especially at the holidays when I have actual loved ones to buy for.