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I think they might have misunderstood her when she said that she sought enlightenment

"You're so hard to shop for"

Why do people buy bosses gifts? They make 10x what we make. Shouldn't they be buying us gifts?

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She makes 116K. Not bad but probably less than some state employees. I've been in jobs where the head of the team or department got everyone something so we pulled moneybto get them something. Never seemed unfair to me.

I don't know if a state where the governor is the highest-paid employee. Usually, it's a football coach by a wiiiiide margin. (Think millions, frequently.) Still, $116k is pretty solid when the highest-paid employee in South Dakota gets in the $300k area, at least compared with the margins elsewhere.

The real comparison is to what her staff makes and whether she gave them gifts.

Guess some ethics must be difficult to ignite

it gets cold there

I mean come on. They go in making that then all of a sudden they are worth $40 million. Insider trading all day when you get to that kinda level

Never, under any circumstances, buy gifts for the boss. It's bad etiquette and its bad management. Gift giving is lateral and down, never up.

You're leaving out a key concept which is obligation. You're never obligated to give e a boss a gift and a good manager won't expect one even if they give them. There's no etiquette that says you can't. I've certainly never seen a manager, good or bad, refuse a gift.

TIL flamethrowers are not regulated like firearms, despite firearms being a more accurate term for flamethrowers.

That sounds awesome.

So many haters in this thread.