BIL's "retirement" cake

[Suze]

First off - If this is not the right place would you move it please.

Today at my families Christmas get-together my BIL told us that he has officially quit working at the Pizza Place. (he's over 65 and it was a "side" job)

Well- there was a cake with pretty writing on it. Which was a nice gesture for someone who only worked part time anyway.

BIL later thanked the owner of the Pizza Place for the cake and was told "you're welcome, really not a bother" kind of thing.

Later after the owner left, BIL's supervisor came over and quitely told him that HE had bought the cake, not the owner, and that he would really miss him being around.

Can you believe the owner taking credit for something that he had not thought of doing himself?

Or was the bad one the supervisor for telling BIL that HE had bought the cake, even if it was told to him privately?

Suze
 

[kckgirl]

I vote bad for the owner who did nothing and took credit. The supervisor is probably fed up with owner doing that all the time.

[BatCity]

I think in this case the supervisor was perfectly justified in privately telling him who the cake was from.

After all, it wasn't intended to be given anonymously.  BIL had been misinformed (so to speak) about the source, and the supervisor set the record straight.  I know if I were the recipient I'd want to know.

[IndianInlaw]

Shame on him!

The supervisor must have thought highly of BIL.

[Alida]

Kudos to the supervisor for such a thoughtful thing and BAH to the owner willing to take credit for someone else's actions. 

[sammycat]

The only one in the wrong here is the owner for taking credit where it's not due.  Maybe he has a history of this and that's why the supervisor told your uncle the truth?  Also, kudos to the supervisor for telling your uncle the truth quietly, and not making a big deal of it, although I think he would have been entitled to say something a bit more publicly .

[Suze]

Thank you.

When he first told us this I thought that the Owner of the place was acting very, very tacky.  How much effort would it have taken to say Supervisor got it for you?

I think that he (Owner) was "showboating" in  front of the other employees (he has a history of this)

Ps Sammycat He is my Brother-In-Law not my uncle.

[FoxPaws]

BIL later thanked the owner of the Pizza Place for the cake and was told "you're welcome, really not a bother" kind of thing.

Of course it wasn't a bother - he didn't do anything! GRRR! I really hate it when people don't give credit where it is due. The owner could have easily said something like, "Well we're all going to miss you, but the cake itself is from Supervisor."

The supervisor sounds like a class act all the way around - hopefully he'll have his own store one day (if that's what he wants) and your family can be sure to patronize it instead of Tacky Owner's.

[Lunadiana75]

I see nothing wrong with the supervisor discreetly explaining what was really going to BIL.  Shame on the owner for taking credit.