'I saw red': Cheapskate boss forces shift supervisors to pay for company pizza parties and refuses to tip, shift supervisors pays them in pettily dispensed pennies

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    Font - Posted by u/smartassrt 22 hours ago Cheapskate Boss S OC I worked as a shift supervisor in a department of about 60 employees. Every year there is a designated week to celebrate our profession. Every year the department director volun-told the shift supervisors that we were all chipping in to buy pizza for the department to help celebrate. The first annoyance was that I worked night shift, so she would order the pizza and give me a check to pay for it (this was after we had all contribute
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    Font - The final straw was the last year she worked there. She had figured out the pizza bill and determined we all owed $15.75. Pizza day comes and goes, with me (of course) chipping in another $10 out of pocket toward the tip. I open my work email, and see that she sent all the shift supervisors a message: she had miscalculated the pizza bill, so we all needed to pay her another $1.65. Otherwise it wouldn't be fair, as she would be paying in more than we had. At first I saw red. Then I dreamed
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    Font - Edit: I do work in the medical field. At the time I worked at a for-profit hospital. They didn't allot any money for recognition. The staff deserved the recognition. I never minded paying for the pizza, what bothered me was our director being a cheapskate. This was before COVID when pizza was still considered a treat and not a slap in the face! Neither the director nor myself work there anymore. I wish I would have thought of the $1.63 idea ......
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    Product - Ruderstang 21 hr. ago I hope you only gave her $1.63 and made her continue looking for the remaining $.02. Vote YourWordsMatter 21 hr. ago Harsh. Vote Reply Share Vote gromit1991 .. but justified. Reply Share ... +2 21 hr. ago • ... Reply Share
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    Product - Pleasant-Squirrel220 +1 20 hr. ago A treasure hunt round the office for $1.65 worth of loose change. Reply Share Vote
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    Font - Quercus 21 hr. ago Wait. She's requiring you to spend your own private money to pay for food for the people you supervise, for a company organized and mandated event? The correct answer to that is "no, I'm not spending my own money to pay for a company event." SMS Vote Reply Share Vote Stormy_Sunflower I know right, that was my first thought. You want to celebrate your employees profession then the company freaking pays for it. What kind of BS is that??? +1 - 21 hr. ago . Reply Share
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    Font - xazraelx1 22 hr. ago She is gonna be pinching pennies for a long time. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - tofuroll +3.20 hr. ago "Cool. Since I paid an extra $10, that brings my balance to -$8.35. Can you get that to me by next week? Thaaaaaaanks." Vote Reply Share vkapadia Her response: Vote +1. 17 hr. ago "You paid extra $10 on your own, I told you not to do that and only tip the guy $2. You still owe me $1.65." Reply Share
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    Font - smartassrt OP 11 hr. ago Yep that was exactly what she told me when I brought up the tip the first time, told me she left a tip and anything I added was my choice, acted like she couldn't understand why $2 wasn't sufficient. Vote Reply Share

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