When you work for a company owned by a A..hole
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Vomiting is not as much fun as waiting for it to be ready for you to deposit on the boss' desk the other way.
True, but it’s good to have options.
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What are you, a cop?
Wait, if I am, do I have to tell you?
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usually, you're supposed to turn down the gift, this is just wrong
The only time I've ever had to agree to anything like this in writing was when I worked for a publicly-traded company.
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Wait, if I am, do I have to tell you?
If you are one, no. I think you get in trouble if you don't lie and/or kick my shit in, actually
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If you are one, no. I think you get in trouble if you don't lie and/or kick my shit in, actually
I'll have to carry unnecessary violence with me wherever I go. Will a bat be OK?
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"Oh, thanks! What I'd like is some extremely hot sauce in a bottle labelled 'ketchup'".
That lovely aged fish in a can from Scandinavia called Surströmming. Make sure to ask for that.
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Not saying a business/person wouldn't try to do something this shitty, but this seems like such a low effort thing to fake. Literally just a word doc printed out and duct taped to a wall.
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I'll have to carry unnecessary violence with me wherever I go. Will a bat be OK?
A bat is fine too.
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This is illegal most places. Might want to look into that.
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Been with several companies that have the first part in their policy. It makes sense to avoid, or at best minimize an external influencing factor in company activities. Basically they don't want to mess with lawsuits. That's what company policy is for, protect the company.
The rest is owner greed. He doesn't want the gifts to stop, he wants them all without doing anything to get them. Either enforce a 'no gifts, period' policy or let people do what they will.
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.
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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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Broken link
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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.
