A friend works for a pretty high-profile law firm. She told me about a memo the employees received yesterday. While I can't quote it verbatim, the gist was
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Egads. I never did anything (or received anything) that elaborate when I was at a big firm. I suspect that the suggestions are for things attorneys might give the non-attorney staff that they supervise, not to give to their supervisors, though.
If not then that's one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen.
I hear you, but she says the memo was quite clear. That list of gift "suggestions" was for the hourly employees (like clerks, mailroom personnel, paralegals, administrative assistants, etc.) to give to their superiors, up to and including the owner of the firm. Certainly, no one could be terminated for not buying the proper gift for their superior(s), but we all klnow how once you're targeted for not going along.... And yeah, fucked up pretty much covers it.
That is too messed up!!! The folks who make the most money should be gifting the others. To take away holiday bonus and suggest that you should buy your boss a gift after that is beyond the pale! This should go public! What assholes!
The only way it *could* have been worse is to say "We're giving you the bonus, which you must immediately spend (that, and more as well) on your "betters"!
That is amazingly, incredibly fucked up. Generally speaking, we didn't expect *anything* from our hourly employees. Typically I'd give something worth between $50-100 to my immediate assistant and she might give me an ornament or something small, certainly nothing that cost more than $10 or so, nor would I have remotely expected anything. The rest of our staff might bring in cookies or candy or something to share, but I certainly had no expectation of receiving anything from, say, a docket clerk making less than $30k a year, nor did my partner expect anything from any of us. If it was a no-bonus year, all of the attorneys would chip in to get an am-ex gift card for our support staff.
If not then that's one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen.
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Certainly, no one could be terminated for not buying the proper gift for their superior(s), but we all klnow how once you're targeted for not going along....
And yeah, fucked up pretty much covers it.
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