That seems like a less bad version of handing out specific items of company swag ("woo, a t-shirt in the wrong size"). At least you can pick something that's useful to you.

We get a certain amount of money a year to buy GitHub swag, but in fairness, I think our shirts and swag is pretty great and most employees appreciate it/use it.

Most companies have a swag budget anyway, getting to pick which items you like is an improvement.

Same - pretty common in the direct sales/MLM world!

same, I think we might have been colleagues!