WTF, tiggy.

My minion and I got presents from the person in between us in the department yesterday, so minion was asking what she should do in response. I said she should do what she wants but she should never EVER feel like she has to buy anything for people up the food chain from her. Because that shit is BANANAS.

I'd be very tempted to state mournfully, "Oh man, that'd mean I can't afford my [name some highly contaigous nasty-ass, airborn disease. Oooh or rabies!] meds this month...."

And, actually, these people don't need an explanation. Just a "no." Repeatedly.

I said she should do what she wants but she should never EVER feel like she has to buy anything for people up the food chain from her. Because that shit is BANANAS.

Yep.

We kick in about $10 a piece for an office gift to the bosses here, but it's a tiny close-knit office where most of the workers are relatives or personal friends of the owners. And they occasionally do stuff like fly people to conferences we're not strictly needed at so the different branches can socialize and get taken out for pretty nice meals.

eta: The person doing the organizing and buying clears the gift with everyone first, and I'm sure we'd go to Plan B if anyone objected to a gift being too expensive or what have you.

It's funny -- minion is in her second job out of college, I think she's 24? so I feel this huge responsability to teach her how things should be, in case she ends up at a fucked-up job later.

I second (or fifth) the oh, HELL no.

ok a few things:

1) who is deciding what to buy 2) who made this a mandatory thing 3) without consent to what it is and how much per person NO WAY!!!!

Oh, and I have bought presents for bosses, but only when I wanted to, not because someone made me! So crazy!!

Yeah, that's totally nuts.

In mememe news: Netflix has Waitress on short wait so I'm NOT going to get to see it this weekend. Pouting now.