Mickey7When you work for a company owned by a A..hole
IntheflsunIf you’re in the USA, please feel fee to photograph and submit to NLRB for review. They like it when the guilty type it up and post it.
JimmycakesNlrb is dead in the trump era. Rip
State Labor boards should be largely unaffected, and are usually the ones to actually punish the offenders anyway.
Lexi SneptaurFederalism for the win I guess
Swedneckexcept for the federal part
You might not be saying that if/when someone who represents your interests gets into power. Remember, we got the ADA, Civil Rights, and more through widespread protest action. Things will continue to happen.
the US federal government is literally a bunch of nazis, how on earth do you think that’s going to be helping people?
I don’t think any amount of discussion with you on this subject is going to change either of our minds on the federal government. I’m just gonna assume you’re a leftist and have your own approach to getting shit done that I’m not engaged with and wish you a good day.
lmao, oh the horror, a leftist on lemmy
The point isn’t that you’re a leftist; it’s that we’re both leftists and we disagree on effective political strategies, and engaging in debate with you is pointless. I sincerely wish you well.
They hang notices with duct tape…
Some companies would tell you not to take gifts in case they look like bribes
Boomer Humor DoomergodWhen I worked for a major database company they made me take annual training to explain that I wasn’t allowed to buy sex workers for potential clients.
So Oracle.
Was after the catapult incident?
Ootl…did the catapult incident involve a sex worker?
Multiple sex workers.
I’m even more ootl. What happened?
Were there multiple catapults, as well?
Nope, just one catapult firing sex workers into a hotel room and one of the calculations was off and she went splat.
Oh, so only one sex worker was involved in the catapult incident. The rest were no incident.
My handbook at work specifically bans buying illicit drugs for customers with the company card.
It doesn’t say anything about buying it with my card and getting reimbursed though…
Make sure the dealer gives you a receipt.
…it feels like they told you whixh sex workers not to hire.
“buy”
So renting is not an issue! Or as a Service…
So many options left. Next time I talk to big red I’ll ask the rep about his interpretation of this training.
;)
Duh, buying them would be capex. No one wants to do depreciation. Short term lease with a damage clause.
This guy businesses.
That’s true, but this directs them to the owner anyway, which is the same thing. It just goes to someone else. If this was actually anti-bribery policy, gifts should not be accepted full stop.
SwizzleStickOne place i worked at collected all gifts and had a lottery at Christmas, where employees could win them. I feel that’s a fair way to deal with this.
Oh that’s neat! I bet it could get out of hand though at a particularly high dollar company
In some type of job it is even illegal
I dont know how to read
Time to update you CV and head elsewhere.
i would just consider those not property of the owner considering anyone can consider anything to be anything
we are all“the beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Have vendor take you out to lunch.
Walk into bosses office and regurgitate the lunch onto their desk.
Profit?
Take long enough and you can just shit on the boss’s desk, slap down the paper, and be mad at their ungrateful attitude for bringing back lunch.
For good measure, you should skip breakfast and make sure you have a big lunch.
No reason to give your boss any of your breakfast tho. That’s on your time.
Take a picture of the shit and add it to the expense report. Make sure you notate that you did not keep the gift and instead rescinded ownership to your boss.
WiddershinsTake a picture? How are they going to smell or taste it? Either shit at work and don’t flush or shit on the floor at work if you want to flush.
Let’s be fair: by that stage you should probably also draw some blood and leave it there.
Wouldn’t want to be unwittingly keeping from the boss the nutrients from that free meal.
This is probably one of the few places my job doesn’t do it horribly.
Any gifts that aren’t perishable get saved up and then before Christmas we do a grab bag type thing where we all take a number and pick a “present” from the swag we’ve been sent.
The only way they do it “wrong” is that the perishables (usually cookies) always go to the office and we never get them on the factory floor! I want cookies DAMNIT!! Lol
My office is bad about the cookie thing too. My office is split across two different buildings.
I have worked here for several years, and we only found out a month ago that the main building has free bagels in the break room every Monday morning. The main building never bothered to tell us, because it’s donated from the local bagel shop as a “there until they’re all gone” situation. And the office drones in the main building didn’t want to share, so they just never told any of us in the secondary building.
We only found out because the bagel shop wanted to do an event in our secondary building. The main building was extremely pushy about us making sure it went well, and offered a bunch of free shit too. We finally chatted to the bagel shop owner about how odd it was that the main building was so invested. She casually dropped the “oh that’s probably just because of all the free bagels we send y’all every week haha” type of comment.
Did some digging, and sure enough the owner sends like a hundred bagels over to the main building every Monday morning. She always assumed that they were sharing, because it’s way too many bagels for just the primary building… But it turns out the employees over there were just hungry hippo’ing the break room table and taking like six bagels home every week.
When I’d get stuff, I’d always offer it to the employees first. My employees used to encourage vendors to show up to get free stuff. I’d let them get whatever they could. One employee got free night vision goggles.
Yeah, I’m a manager and I fully encourage my staff to take tips and gifts even though it’s against company policy. If a client offers a tip, I normally respond with something like “I don’t take tips, but if you and the part-timer want to to walk around the corner where there’s no security cameras, I’ll stay right here so I don’t see any money change hands.”
The part-timers need the money more than I do anyways. $50 won’t make a huge difference to me, but could be the determining factor in whether or not the part-timer has enough gas money to get to class next week. Plus they’re the actual boots on the ground making sure the day-to-day runs smoothly. I’m just doing paperwork and hanging out in case any big issues pop up.
The whole schmoozing (bribing) culture is messed up regardless of who is on the receiving end.
I would simply refuse all gifts rather than give them to the owner.
Better to just accept the gifts for yourself and let them fire you. I imagine a juicy wrongful termination suit would be appropriate.
CileTheSaneExplain to the client that your refusing because of the policy that all gifts must go to the owner.
Even better. Make clients look for better companies.
UncleGrandPaWhy does HE get to make a unilateral decision on a subject of legal ownership. When did he get elected to the Legislature?
Isn’t that a bribe?
bribes are for preferential treatment.
gifts are given to people who help you out and appreciate your efforts.
all this does is tells employees that customer satisfaction isn’t a concern and they only have to make sure the customers are satisfied enough to not complain with zero effort to reward employees that go above and beyond the role.
if you work in a place like this, wake up. you’re a cog in an orphan grinding machine.
RhaedasBeen with several companies that have the first part in their policy. It makes sense to avoid, or at best minimize an external influencing factor in company activities. Basically they don't want to mess with lawsuits. That's what company policy is for, protect the company.
The rest is owner greed. He doesn't want the gifts to stop, he wants them all without doing anything to get them. Either enforce a 'no gifts, period' policy or let people do what they will.
When you work in certain fields there are strict laws around accepting gifts from customers or clients. None of those laws allow the business owner to steal them from you.
In the US, there is a legal precedent from corps stealing tips meant for employees.
That’s not actually legal anywhere in the US. However, it requires being reported so it’s hardly ever enforced.
Mr. w00tOh the second hand embarrassment…
DyskolosThen…why do you still work for such a company?
Pretty sure I just got ~anti-bribery~ ethics and compliance training that said no one in my company is allowed to accept such gifts lol