Do bosses give employees gifts anymore?
I can't recall ever getting a bad gift from a boss, however, I do recall this kick-ass microphone my boss Jill gave me which I was going to use to interview Venus Williams the other day, but that didn't happen and that's a different story, too...
INC MAGAZINE compiled a list of some of the worst gifts from bosses... and here's what they found. See if any gifts you've received are on par with some of these gifts...
• My first job out of school was at a fitness company. The boss bought all the employees gifts that Christmas. He got me a coffee mug that sang Dradle, Dradle. I’m not Jewish. The cup wouldn’t stop playing the song, so I had to take the batteries out.
• We took our boss out for a holiday lunch, and he was so touched that he went back to the office and wrote checks for all us. He had six employees total. The office manager then had to go back and tell us not to cash those checks. If we did cash them, they would’ve bounced.
• A boss gave me a high five. Two years in a row.
• When I was 23, I was hoping for a coffee shop gift card. Instead I got a blueberry-scented oil diffuser.
• Years ago I worked for a boss who took us all out to a very expensive restaurant in New York City one December evening. Throughout the night, he encouraged us all to eat, drink and be merry. He urged us all to order the choicest and most expensive items on the menu. So we did. At the end of the meal, he asked for separate checks.
• I once received a Harry & David tower of treats. Gourmet, yes. But the package had my boss’ address pasted on it. He had re-gifted it to me.
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