My boss, who’s been rather attentive to me, gave me frilly lingerie as a Christmas gift. When I expressed outrage he claimed it was his assistant’s blunder and it was meant for his wife. Ought to I consider him, or escalate this?

Outrage and escalate due to the fact you never wear frilly lingerie? Or it was from Outdated Navy in its place of Victoria’s Key? Wrong in shape? Was it a white elephant reward?

Alright, c’mon — just a minor vacation humor.

In all seriousness, if you really feel unpleasant by his awareness I propose you address that alternatively than the gift.

It’s not strange for assistants to go present procuring for their manager to give to other folks and it is achievable that he handed you the completely wrong box, even if it’s not likely.

But, if you want to give it 1 previous likelihood in advance of having it even more, give your manager the present of grace this vacation period.

Make it obvious that experienced this not been a miscalculation it would have been an unacceptable breach of professional carry out, and see if the focus he presents you heading ahead is much more expert. If not, then escalate.

I operate in retail and we were being instructed we had been all having a Christmas reward but it never arrived since “the retail outlet did not do as effectively as expected.” Is this authorized? We all worked seriously difficult.

The conversation about the intention to spend a reward might have been made with the very best of intentions.

Generally bonuses are compensated primarily based on performance, both of those on an specific and corporation amount.

So except if there was a contractual obligation demanding the employer to pay something if particular ailments are met, the organization may establish that they now can not pay for to shell out, or does not sense the performance merits more payment.

Devoid of fantastic context, this would have any employee sensation let down.

It is unlikely you’ll want to get the job done as difficult in the future, and you may even ponder regardless of whether you want to continue on with the employer.

Possibly your organization will take into consideration some recognition in area of the bonus, like added compensated time off, which most retail workers require presented the extended several hours so a lot of have to continue to keep.

Gregory Giangrande has in excess of 25 many years of encounter as a main human methods executive. Listen to Greg Wed. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. Electronic mail: GoToGreg@NYPost.com. Adhere to: GoToGreg.com and on Twitter: @GregGiangrande