People, stop buying your bosses gifts!! It's craxy!
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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
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.
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2007 12:55:37 pm PST #8019 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am totally okay with not getting day-job related gifts. We each get a meal voucher, and let's not even get started about caf quality--I'd have to walk ten fifteen minutes (uh, uphill in SoCal winter) to even get to it.
Not gonna happen. I'm good with getting nothing, not even a bonus.
Though I like bonuses, and everyone should totally give me one right now.
Krav gives gifts to all the instructors every year. They're very deliberate branding/culty gifts--they give us something with the krav logo on it that will never be for sale. Cracks me up on the Sunday after the holiday party to see how many instructors show up wearing the dosh from the night before (most years it's some sort of jackety thing).
And I'm totally one of the sheep. I don't know why I do it for krav when I wouldn't do it for so many other things. You wouldn't have caught me dead displaying a McGill logo until I left Montreal.