Gotcha. Just curious.

Are you very young, or not American?

Haha yes! You did the right thing though. It’s all about timing. I knew my team needed the dumb prizes that week/month for the extra goodwill. You knew everyone needed goddamn pens.

How long would it have taken to get that done going through management?

“So I spoke to manager X and they said we’ll have pens in a couple weeks” doesn’t exactly inspire anything.

I once bought little prize things for my team. Nothing special, stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol