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

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

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

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.

It's all about the proper regurgitating technique

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

Yes. Malicious compliance.

Last company where I faced external suppliers, I had to take a training where they said we couldn't accept any item worth more than like $20, except food or alcohol during a presentation. But we could accept such items on behalf of the company, and they would be raffled off to a random employee. One time a guy in purchasing got a giant brass horse head from a Chinese supplier. I guess nobody signed up for the raffle, so it became a permanent fixture in the cafeteria.

Same in ours.

Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying "that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me"

I'd already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I'd accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was "just" a tech who couldn't sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn't have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we're not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.

I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I'd copied in on the ombudsman comms.)

Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got 'audited' for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn't able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.

Thats a great feeling. I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003 (Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage space allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze. A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn't get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it. We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive. I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn't slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it off and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn't able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.

Copied the files to her "home" area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.

The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.

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

Nlrb is dead in the trump era. Rip

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.

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

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.