Real life dilemma - you feel like a cash machine
A friend of mine mentioned an issue that I have been experiencing at work lately too.
When a coworker gets a new job, has a baby or gets married, it is natural to want to celebrate. This involves some people (in the case of my office it is the group responsible for social events) requesting that staff members donate whatever they wish to buy a gift for the celebrant.
In my first month at my current job, I was asked for two donations and while I was happy to donate, a part of me thought it was a bit presumptuous to ask somebody who hasn’t even gotten to know her coworkers, and who is starting her first real career job since graduating from university, for a donation. It put me in a strange situation: as a new employee who is trying to impress, I did not want my coworkers to think I was uncaring or cheap so even had I not wanted to contribute, I would have.
While it has been stressed, especially lately, that everybody should donate only what they want and if they want, there is a feeling (perhaps only within me?) that I must give every time.
How do you handle the office collections and the politics of giving to a collection?
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