Employee spends $500 of his own money to throw coworker’s going-away party, cancels the event because no one paid him back in time – FAIL Blog

One question worth asking is why the team was unable to get the company to foot the bill for at least half of these costs. That way, people could each contribute approximately $18, and their departing coworker wouldn’t have to deal with a lame CVS veggie platter on his last day at work.

Instead, not only did the company refuse to engage, but the entire team just left everything up to the author, who clearly had earned an unfortunate reputation for being more giving than he needed to be. In that sense, it was about time that he sent a signal to the team to get them to walk back these communal expectations. None of this was fair to the employee financially or in terms of the responsibility and planning. The employee was definitely not getting paid enough for this nonsense.