When you work for a company owned by a A..hole
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In our company this is a bribe and we don't accept bribes.
Same in ours.
Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying "that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me"
I'd already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I'd accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was "just" a tech who couldn't sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn't have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we're not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.
I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I'd copied in on the ombudsman comms.)
Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got 'audited' for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn't able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.
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We need to start recognizing corporate greed as a mental disorder. This is a company large enough that employees don't interact with the owner directly, and all the profits from the company aren't enough for the owner: they also want the pen the delivery guy gave you. It's a sickness.
The Native Americans recognized a greed sickness in white men. They called it watika, IIRC.
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The Native Americans recognized a greed sickness in white men. They called it watika, IIRC.
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That link worked for me.
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Client gifted me a truck load of manure
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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?
You can generally wait 2 or 3 days before giving him the food. Of course by then it's been processed.
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The Native Americans recognized a greed sickness in white men. They called it watika, IIRC.
Thanks for this! Watiko look like an interesting rabbit hole to explore.
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Yeah the word he spelled came from Hindu meaning garden apparently. Or Africa meaning creative. No ties to America I could find. I guess they sound close
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When you work in certain fields there are strict laws around accepting gifts from customers or clients. None of those laws allow the business owner to steal them from you.
In the US, there is a legal precedent from corps stealing tips meant for employees.
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This is because the gifts must be tossed in the hole. The hole that runs the company. Because the company is run by a hole.
Once the hole is filled the company dies and you are free.
Source: I fill holes.
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My company forces everyone to take a training that must be repeated every year, teaching us that we have to always refuse gifts because of corruption and
collisioncollusion laws. -
My company forces everyone to take a training that must be repeated every year, teaching us that we have to always refuse gifts because of corruption and
collisioncollusion laws.I can only hope that was an autocorrect, otherwise you'd better retake that training. Or maybe full-contact corrupting is a thing now...
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I can only hope that was an autocorrect, otherwise you'd better retake that training. Or maybe full-contact corrupting is a thing now...
I meant collusion
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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?
It's all about the proper regurgitating technique
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Duh, buying them would be capex. No one wants to do depreciation. Short term lease with a damage clause.
This guy businesses.
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In our company this is a bribe and we don't accept bribes.
Last company where I faced external suppliers, I had to take a training where they said we couldn't accept any item worth more than like $20, except food or alcohol during a presentation. But we could accept such items on behalf of the company, and they would be raffled off to a random employee. One time a guy in purchasing got a giant brass horse head from a Chinese supplier. I guess nobody signed up for the raffle, so it became a permanent fixture in the cafeteria.
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Do these people work for the government
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In the US, there is a legal precedent from corps stealing tips meant for employees.
That's not actually legal anywhere in the US. However, it requires being reported so it's hardly ever enforced.
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Federalism for the win I guess
except for the federal part
