usually, you're supposed to turn down the gift, this is just wrong
When you work for a company owned by a A..hole
Submitted 9 hours ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
I’ve heard stories of clients giving gifts getting pissed when the wrong person claims them, so it’s risky for not just legal reasons
Intheflsun@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If you’re in the USA, please feel fee to photograph and submit to NLRB for review. They like it when the guilty type it up and post it.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nlrb is dead in the trump era. Rip
Ledivin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
State Labor boards should be largely unaffected, and are usually the ones to actually punish the offenders anyway.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Some companies would tell you not to take gifts in case they look like bribes
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 minutes ago
…it feels like they told you whixh sex workers not to hire.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So Oracle.
Was after the catapult incident?
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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…
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
One place i worked at collected all gifts and had a lottery at Christmas, where employees could win them. I feel that’s a fair way to deal with this.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Oh that’s neat! I bet it could get out of hand though at a particularly high dollar company
scytale@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
That’s true, but this directs them to the owner anyway, which is the same thing. It just goes to someone else. If this was actually anti-bribery policy, gifts should not be accepted full stop.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
Pretty sure I just got ~anti-bribery~ ethics and compliance training that said no one in my company is allowed to accept such gifts lol
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
“Oh, thanks! What I’d like is some extremely hot sauce in a bottle labelled ‘ketchup’”.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
I would simply refuse all gifts rather than give them to the owner.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Better to just accept the gifts for yourself and let them fire you. I imagine a juicy wrongful termination suit would be appropriate.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
lol
Usually these things will just say you can’t accept such items because it could be considered a bribe or at the very least unprofessional. And here we have an asshole straight up saying “give your bribes to me!”
the_q@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
The whole schmoozing (bribing) culture is messed up regardless of who is on the receiving end.
jim@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
They hang notices with duct tape…
w00t@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Oh the second hand embarrassment…
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Time to update you CV and head elsewhere.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online 8 hours ago
“the beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
When I’d get stuff, I’d always offer it to the employees first. My employees used to encourage vendors to show up to get free stuff. I’d let them get whatever they could. One employee got free night vision goggles.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Yeah, I’m a manager and I fully encourage my staff to take tips and gifts even though it’s against company policy. If a client offers a tip, I normally respond with something like “I don’t take tips, but if you and the part-timer want to to walk around the corner where there’s no security cameras, I’ll stay right here so I don’t see any money change hands.”
The part-timers need the money more than I do anyways. $50 won’t make a huge difference to me, but could be the determining factor in whether or not the part-timer has enough gas money to get to class next week. Plus they’re the actual boots on the ground making sure the day-to-day runs smoothly. I’m just doing paperwork and hanging out in case any big issues pop up.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Then…why do you still work for such a company?
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Why does HE get to make a unilateral decision on a subject of legal ownership. When did he get elected to the Legislature?
lennee@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
i would just consider those not property of the owner considering anyone can consider anything to be anything
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I dont know how to read
Asafum@feddit.nl 8 hours ago
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
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
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.
Kurious84@eviltoast.org 7 hours ago
Isn’t that a bribe?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Have vendor take you out to lunch.
Walk into bosses office and regurgitate the lunch onto their desk.
Profit?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Take long enough and you can just shit on the boss’s desk, slap down the paper, and be mad at their ungrateful attitude for bringing back lunch.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
For good measure, you should skip breakfast and make sure you have a big lunch.
No reason to give your boss any of your breakfast tho. That’s on your time.