Nlrb is dead in the trump era. Rip

Take long enough and you can just shit on the boss's desk, slap down the paper, and ask for a "thank you" for bringing back some lunch.

In some type of job it is even illegal

When 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.

One 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.

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.

There is usually a common-sense bar where this is applied though. Some items on that list would for sure apply, but in that case the employee should politely decline, not hand the goods over to the owner. I'd like to think that's fake. But, I can imagine that it's very real somewhere.;

Yeah we had that training. Not that anyone ever offers me bribes anyway.

It's like all the lies about the drug dealers giving kids free drugs. Never happens.

Same

The only time I've ever had to agree to anything like this in writing was when I worked for a publicly-traded company.

I've heard stories of clients giving gifts getting pissed when the wrong person claims them, so it's risky for not just legal reasons

Obviously not. You order it to go, sit there awkwardly while the client eats, then bring the box of cold food to the manager who the gives it to the owner eventually.

Vomiting is not as much fun as waiting for it to be ready for you to deposit on the boss' desk the other way.

You can generally wait 2 or 3 days before giving him the food. Of course by then it's been processed.

Yes. Malicious compliance.

It's all about the proper regurgitating technique

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.

A proper company would instead be talking about compliance and how gifts of really any meaningful value have to be rejected outright.

or mayo in a pudding glass

That lovely aged fish in a can from Scandinavia called Surströmming. Make sure to ask for that.

Better to just accept the gifts for yourself and let them fire you. I imagine a juicy wrongful termination suit would be appropriate.

Explain to the client that your refusing because of the policy that all gifts must go to the owner.

The Native Americans recognized a greed sickness in white men. They called it watiko, IIRC.

Edit: I spelled incorrectly. It is watiko, not watika.

https://www.innertraditions.com/blog/wetiko-in-a-nutshell

I can only hope that was an autocorrect, otherwise you'd better retake that training. Or maybe full-contact corrupting is a thing now...

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.

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.