Company Holiday gifts should flow down the chain, not upward to management. Employees are pressured to take on extra duties and responsibilities all the time under the sometimes false promises of promotions and rewards. So after an entire year of that pressure, how is it this common that employees might then be doubly pressured to pitch in money to give a gift to their boss? I suppose if this kind of gift-giving were reciprocated, that would be slightly more acceptable. I suppose if it were mandated that no one should contribute anything more than a mutually agreed-upon amount, that would be slightly more acceptable as well. However, neither of those conditions was applicable in this instance.
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This thread was posted to Reddit by u/terekkincaid, who worked on a relatively new sales team and was just getting the hang of the dynamics among his team members. So when one team member suggested that everyone should pitch in $100 to give to their boss Cathy, OP was particularly perplexed: was this the norm? was this expected? why $100?
Keep scrolling below to see what happened when OP rejected this idea on principle and how it affected the team dynamic in the ensuing weeks before Christmas. For more stories like this, check out this post about a boss who makes his workers fight over a piñata during the annual Holiday party.
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