Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why would you ever give your boss flowers and cake? First mistake. Lesson learned?
Exactly.
Anonymous wrote:Why would you ever give your boss flowers and cake? First mistake. Lesson learned?
Anonymous wrote:The first year I worked for MB/DB I got DB a cake and MB flowers for their respective birthdays. They got me a $20 gift certificate and a framed photograph of my charge and I for my birthday. The following year I gave them each a night out of free babysitting and they wished me a happy birthday but didn't even get me a card. When they said "happy birthday" to me on the day of my birthday - without a card or gift - I said that I just wanted to forget my birthday this year (a death in the family and a zero-age birthday).
Now their birthdays are coming up again and I am unsure what to do. I feel like they were hinting that they wanted to stop birthday gifts when they didn't do anything for my birthday. On the other hand I do not want to appear petty and tit-for-tat. Also they will probably ask me to babysit on their birthdays.
WWYD? TIA
Anonymous wrote:Why would you ever give your boss flowers and cake? First mistake. Lesson learned?