Well. How's that for a big incoherent ball of pissyness?
sounds completely coherent and appropriate to me.
you need to add more pissyness
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
hippocampus - Dec 18, 2007 12:15:39 pm PST #8009 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
megan walker - Dec 18, 2007 12:16:43 pm PST #8010 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
People, stop buying your bosses gifts!! It's craxy!
NoiseDesign - Dec 18, 2007 12:18:55 pm PST #8011 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Ah well. I guess no gifts for me then.
DebetEsse - Dec 18, 2007 12:22:31 pm PST #8012 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I gave my boss cookies. I felt good about it.
I gave my assistant cookies, juice boxes of wine (impulse buy), and a gift card. Felt good about that, too.
javachik - Dec 18, 2007 12:22:41 pm PST #8013 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I get something very small for my boss (usually a $20 bottle of wine or an ornament. This year it's an ornament from Gumps.) but go all out on my employees.
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2007 12:24:06 pm PST #8014 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm glad I've never been in a position where giving a boss a gift seemed required. It's odd. I mean, make the choice if you want to, but don't apply pressure.
We have the Christmas lunch tomorrow and I don't want to go and everyone's supposed to give $$ or bring food. There's no way I'm making stuff and I missed the $$ deadline. I just haven't worked out how grinchy I'm willing to appear.
Hell, I'll work through it. I just don't want a holiday party.
Pix - Dec 18, 2007 12:26:31 pm PST #8015 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Ah well. I guess no gifts for me then.Hush, you. You get plenty of gifts. Besides, no one can ever buy anything for you before you run out and buy it for yourself!
I also think that there's a big difference between giving gifts to a boss in a small business like yours where you are collegial with your employees and in a corporate or school environment. I sure as heck don't have money to buy my bosses gifts, but I will write a little card for them.
javachik - Dec 18, 2007 12:27:00 pm PST #8016 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I don't feel obligated to get my boss anything. I genuinely like her, though, so it's easy to feel generous. But I have the best staff in the history of best staffs (present company excluded) and love to be as generous as I can afford. I did settle on AmEx gift cards, though. Usually I am not a big fan, but they have such different lifestyle circumstances that it's the only way I could fairly give to them.
Vortex - Dec 18, 2007 12:34:57 pm PST #8017 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I don't get my boss anything. I don't want to start the gift cycle. I still exchange with my old boss, though. But that's more about our personal relationship.
Jesse - Dec 18, 2007 12:41:20 pm PST #8018 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm glad I've never been in a position where giving a boss a gift seemed required. It's odd. I mean, make the choice if you want to, but don't apply pressure.
100% this.
However, my counterpart and I were snarking over our boss buying cookies for the whole department because she feels like has "too many direct reports" to give individual gifts. Technically? She has three: me, counterpart, and her assistant. Granted, there's a third position on our level that's been vacant, so she had to do reviews for the folks in that area, so I guess she feels like they are her reports, too, but whatev.