07/08/2026
I got a really weird package from my old job.
I received a really weird package today, May 28. When I saw it on my front porch I was really confused because I haven’t ordered anything recently. I looked at the sender and it was from my old job, that I got laid off from in December, so I was even more confused.
I opened the box to find a Chanel box, YSL box, and a letter. In the Chanel box, there was 4 cans of tuna. In the YSL box, there was AirPods (I didn’t open them to see if the actual air buds were in there), empty pencil led container, some crumbled up paper, and a printed screenshot of a perfume bottle.
There was a letter inside the box claiming to be my old jobs office of administration & employee relations saying happy birthday to me. The letter was written on April 10th. My birthday is indeed in a couple of days.
I got really weirded out a freaked out about this. I crossed my name and address out from the package and the letter, and took it and tossed it at a nearby gas station dumpster.
Honestly it’s still weirding me out and I really don’t know what that was about. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. I don’t know what else I can do. I looked up receiving unsolicited weird packages online and the term “brushing scam” came up but I really don’t understand what that is or why that happened to me.
Edit: a lot of you guys are saying that I may have been forgotten on a birthday list from my old job but I was working there my past two birthdays and I never even got a birthday gift from them. So why this year am I on some birthday gifting system? When I don’t even work there anymore.. and I don’t think they do that
Edit #2: The package got delivered earlier in the day but I didn’t get it or open it until around 5:30pm. That’s why I didn’t call or ask anyone because the work day was already over. I will reach out to somebody tomorrow (5/29) about it.
Update: I’ve been trying to read all the replies and respond to some but I couldn’t read all of them. I sent an email to HR this morning and have yet to receive a response so I have to wait. To clarify some of yalls questions, I worked part time and hybrid. I didn’t have my own office space, and I never really went into the office at all. So it’s not anything I could have left in my desk or locker, cuz I didn’t have one. I didn’t have many coworkers, I worked with a small group of people but I can’t think of anyone that could do this as a prank or whatever. I mainly kept to myself and just did my work on my own. I don’t like tuna and I’ve never eaten it- so I threw it away. I also never smell bad. That is one of my biggest fears ngl 😭 so it couldn’t be someone trying to say I smelled bad. Reddit helped me realize that the shipping label is from 2021 (I didn’t notice that) but I didn’t even work there at that time. I don’t have a ring camera so im not sure if someone put it at my house, because I didn’t see it actually get delivered. I don’t think I have enemies or anyone that may want to prank me like this so that also doesn’t add up to me. I still don’t know where the box came from and why it happened. For now I will just wait to see if HR responds to my email and can help me out with anything. If they don’t respond, im not sure what I’ll do next. Should I just let this whole situation go and forget about it?
