The Thanksgiving Budget Trap
Language: en
Right before Thanksgiving, Sarah, our office manager, handed me an envelope with five hundred dollars in cash. Written on the front was: Employee Thanksgiving Gift Budget. The next second, she dropped a message into the main company Slack channel: "I've handed the Thanksgiving gift budget over to Mia, the new administrative assistant. If anyone has any special requests, just let her know!" In my past life, I took that five hundred dollars and drove to every wholesale club in the city, desperately trying to stretch it to buy pies, nuts, and fruit baskets for over two hundred…