My significant other works for Booz Allen and is preparing for a team outing. It was suggested, that the team leaders pick a gift to present to the staff during the outing. The gifts were branded items from the BAH company store. The total price per person was a little over $30 to include tax and shipping. Today they were told that since this was not a company sponsored event, the group would have to split the cost among the leaders to pay for the gifts. I think this is tacky. Thoughts?

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In accounting there are times when the partner group covers specific expenses out of pocket/personally that can't be "expensed to the firm" but I can't imagine them asking managers or senior managers to do this.

If some well intentioned volunteer event planner set this up only to realize afterwards that it fell outside of their expense policy and were in a bind I'd probably grumble and pay it but really the partners/owners should be covering it not me.

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