When you work for a company owned by a A..hole
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This is probably one of the few places my job doesn't do it horribly.
Any gifts that aren't perishable get saved up and then before Christmas we do a grab bag type thing where we all take a number and pick a "present" from the swag we've been sent.
The only way they do it "wrong" is that the perishables (usually cookies) always go to the office and we never get them on the factory floor! I want cookies DAMNIT!! Lol
My office is bad about the cookie thing too. My office is split across two different buildings.
I have worked here for several years, and we only found out a month ago that the main building has free bagels in the break room every Monday morning. The main building never bothered to tell us, because it’s donated from the local bagel shop as a “there until they’re all gone” situation. And the office drones in the main building didn’t want to share, so they just never told any of us in the secondary building.
We only found out because the bagel shop wanted to do an event in our secondary building. The main building was extremely pushy about us making sure it went well, and offered a bunch of free shit too. We finally chatted to the bagel shop owner about how odd it was that the main building was so invested. She casually dropped the “oh that’s probably just because of all the free bagels we send y’all every week haha” type of comment.
Did some digging, and sure enough the owner sends like a hundred bagels over to the main building every Monday morning. She always assumed that they were sharing, because it’s way too many bagels for just the primary building… But it turns out the employees over there were just hungry hippo’ing the break room table and taking like six bagels home every week.
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Take a picture of the shit and add it to the expense report. Make sure you notate that you did not keep the gift and instead rescinded ownership to your boss.
Take a picture? How are they going to smell or taste it? Either shit at work and don't flush or shit on the floor at work if you want to flush.
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Isn't that a bribe?
bribes are for preferential treatment.
gifts are given to people who help you out and appreciate your efforts.
all this does is tells employees that customer satisfaction isn't a concern and they only have to make sure the customers are satisfied enough to not complain with zero effort to reward employees that go above and beyond the role.
if you work in a place like this, wake up. you're a cog in an orphan grinding machine.
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I would simply refuse all gifts rather than give them to the owner.
Better to just accept the gifts for yourself and let them fire you. I imagine a juicy wrongful termination suit would be appropriate.
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When I worked for a major database company they made me take annual training to explain that I wasn’t allowed to buy sex workers for potential clients.
...it feels like they told you whixh sex workers not to hire.
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Once a user came into our office on the verge of tears. Her notebook wouldn't boot and she thought that meant her thesis was lost.
Didn't make a backup either.
But luckily it was the mainboard that quit and not the SSD. So we were able to decrypt it and get her up and running again. After we told her to make a backup next time, she was so happy that she wanted to give us money. We refused.
Come next day, she stormed in, without saying a word. Just threw a pile of candy and a handful of soft drinks on our table and ran off before we could do anything about it.
Fuck you, boss. That's our candy now.
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When I worked for a major database company they made me take annual training to explain that I wasn’t allowed to buy sex workers for potential clients.
"buy"
So renting is not an issue! Or as a Service....
So many options left. Next time I talk to big red I'll ask the rep about his interpretation of this training.
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Yeah, that company has red flags.
Red flag number 1: the contents of the note
Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.
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Some companies would tell you not to take gifts in case they look like bribes
In some type of job it is even illegal
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Food? So if a client takes me for a meal I have to make sure to vomit it onto my boss' desk when I get back to the office?
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Once a user came into our office on the verge of tears. Her notebook wouldn't boot and she thought that meant her thesis was lost.
Didn't make a backup either.
But luckily it was the mainboard that quit and not the SSD. So we were able to decrypt it and get her up and running again. After we told her to make a backup next time, she was so happy that she wanted to give us money. We refused.
Come next day, she stormed in, without saying a word. Just threw a pile of candy and a handful of soft drinks on our table and ran off before we could do anything about it.
Fuck you, boss. That's our candy now.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The whole story just warms my heart.
Heroes definitelly don't always wear capes!
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Take long enough and you can just shit on the boss's desk, slap down the paper, and ask for a "thank you" for bringing back some lunch.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Let's be fair: by that stage you should probably also draw some blood and leave it there.
Wouldn't want to unwittingly be keeping from the boss the nutrients from that free meal.
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Best start having takeaway cups at home next time somebody comes by to install something, just in case they need to take the gift which is my offering of coffee or tea, to their bosses...
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Food? So if a client takes me for a meal I have to make sure to vomit it onto my boss' desk when I get back to the office?
Obviously not. You order it to go, sit there awkwardly while the client eats, then bring the box of cold food to the manager who the gives it to the owner eventually.
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Once a user came into our office on the verge of tears. Her notebook wouldn't boot and she thought that meant her thesis was lost.
Didn't make a backup either.
But luckily it was the mainboard that quit and not the SSD. So we were able to decrypt it and get her up and running again. After we told her to make a backup next time, she was so happy that she wanted to give us money. We refused.
Come next day, she stormed in, without saying a word. Just threw a pile of candy and a handful of soft drinks on our table and ran off before we could do anything about it.
Fuck you, boss. That's our candy now.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Thats a great feeling.
I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003
(Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage space allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze.
A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn't get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it.
We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive.
I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn't slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it off and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn't able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.Copied the files to her "home" area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.
The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.
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Yeah, that company has red flags.
Red flag number 1: the contents of the note
Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.
A proper company would instead be talking about compliance and how gifts of really any meaningful value have to be rejected outright.
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When I worked for a major database company they made me take annual training to explain that I wasn’t allowed to buy sex workers for potential clients.
Duh, buying them would be capex. No one wants to do depreciation. Short term lease with a damage clause.
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Pretty sure I just got
anti-briberyethics and compliance training that said no one in my company is allowed to accept such gifts lolYeah we had that training. Not that anyone ever offers me bribes anyway.
It's like all the lies about the drug dealers giving kids free drugs. Never happens.
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In our company this is a bribe and we don't accept bribes.
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My handbook at work specifically bans buying illicit drugs for customers with the company card.
It doesn't say anything about buying it with my card and getting reimbursed though...
Make sure the dealer gives you a receipt.
