Employee wins company holiday raffle, office manager demands they hand over the prize to a colleague who's retiring: ‘My ticket was in there fair and square’

There's always at least one person in the office who wants you to "take one for the team".

What if you don't want to take one for the team? What if you taken one for so many teams that you feel it's your time for someone else to take one? Maybe they should take multiple "ones"! In between the lines of that word salad, there's a true meaning. Why should you always forfeit the good you experience for others' benefit? At the end of the day, we come into this world alone, and we leave alone. You might as well get to enjoy some of the great things that come your way, right?

Office politics are a fickle thing. One move to the left or the right can change anybody's opinion of you, for better or for worse. Not that your colleagues' opinions matter all that much in the grand scheme of things, but it'd sure be nice not to feel their cold stares in the back of your head while you're trying to eat your lunch in the break room.

This next story shows you just how necessary it is to stand your ground in the wake of office harassment. I suppose this isn't technically considered harassment, but there's a heavy implication of "do this, or your reputation will be tainted." An employee wins a holiday raffle at his company party, which includes a Bluetooth speaker and a $100 gift card. The office manager approaches them and strongly hints that they should forfeit the prize and let their soon-to-be-retired colleague keep it. Now that wouldn't be fair, would it? Couldn't the company just gift him something else? If anything, this speaks to the company's frugal budgeting. Instead of purchasing the pending retiree a gift, they tried to rig a company raffle. How sad. Scroll below to read the full story.

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