Bosses Day Dilemma (Navy, supervisor, buy, assistant)
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I would spend what I have, get the cake & have the people who donated sign the card. The end. Or, if taking the card around is super annoying, I would sign it FOR them - something like, "Your friends & colleagues in department x." Very generic, but still something.
You must look after your own interests, here...
However, next year... I would just get her a nice cupcake or something yummy with your own card and put it on her desk. Assuming, that is, she gives YOU something for secretary's day. All that work you do as a secretary, plus, organizing for the cake & card etc., is thankless. The other people don't really appreciate your efforts on it.
The appeciation one receives on Bosses Day should never be misconstrued as an entitlement. This is a valuable day to send a message, sometimes a nice one, sometimes one whose silence is "deafening". By the sound of things, she has earned the latter, so why struggle to provide any result not merited? You may wish to query those who gave money to see if they felt "coerced" , or were they simply doing what they felt was merited.
I would kindly explain the situation to her on Boss's day. Simply tell her that you tried your best to round up the dollars for a cake, but due to the dismal performance on her end, you only had enough to cover the bureaucratic functions involved with the fund raiser, leaving nothing to spare for the cake. While this unfortunate event is entirely her fault for being such a vile human being in the office, explain how ill prepared you were for this uphill challenge you bestowed upon yourself. Perhaps with more time, preparation, and personal PR coaching, you would have been able to right this ship before it ran aground and exploded in a ball of flames. If you would really like to go the extra mile, devise a list of strategies that could help her improve her standing in the office, so next year might fare better. Obviously, this Boss's day was a complete failure, and an unfortunate event for all parties involved, but it's never too early to think about next year. Eyes on the prize...
I'm sorry, but this is bad advice. It of course depends on your relationship with the boss, but in most situations one cannot tell their boss about their "dismal performance" and give them tips on how they could improve.
Again, thank you all for your replies. Fortunately for me, I work with absolutely wonderful people who ALL have this boss's number. However, since we are all in this together, I have found they are doing what they need to do to get that magic amount of money together for the cake. After all, most of us are doing it for the cake, lol.
This is a pet peave of mine. Corporations, making tons of cash, asking workers whom salaries have been declining to contribute to something the company should pay for! This is BS plain and simple! I had a sales manager invite us out for happy hour and then asked us to chip in? Buddy you are the one with expense account not me, how dare you ask me to chip in when you asked me out. Companies should never ask employees to kick in for things they can easily cover.
We're government so whatever we do comes out of our pockets, which is as it should be. But I agree, too many private companies expect too much from their underpaid employees.
We're government so whatever we do comes out of our pockets, which is as it should be. But I agree, too many private companies expect too much from their underpaid employees.
I'm sorry, but this is bad advice. It of course depends on your relationship with the boss, but in most situations one cannot tell their boss about their "dismal performance" and give them tips on how they could improve.
I wouldn't do a thing. Just pretend like boss's day doesn't exist. This has to be pretty high up on the list of silly things people do.
Most managers and other bosses do not want anything done on this day. It is not appropriate for staff to buy the boss gifts.
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