It's actually my boss' wife. That's what I meant. I do have a boyfriend. And I'm happy with him. (most of the time!!!)
But yeah, my boss' wife added something on top of my boss' comment about this stranger. My boss was positive about him, but his wife said he's creepy and that she knows of women who complained about his behaviour towards them. She was hinting at something sexual.
But I didn't feel like he was hitting on me. As I said, I usually sense that.
I didn't tell my boss about the donation. I see it as something personal. Didn't think it was worth mentioning.
Depends on the company and the policies essentially.
I literaly just took our Company's ethics and policies review tests.
Big thing it wasn't from a Govt official and it wasn't implicitly exchanged for a favor or business favor.
However if you have any influence or control over this person's business relationship with your company a possible conflict of interest could crop up.
Not knowing what your company's policy on this behavior makes it hard to comment.
We'd get Christmas gifts from our customers all the time when I was in sales. Usually a botttle of wine or a $50 giftcard in appreciation of being helpful. Technically we should have notified my manager about them. It is when the gift is intimated to be in exchange for things is where ethics comes in to question.
I'd say enjoy the gift, buy some excercise equipment go on a trip etc. Don't feel like you need to be besties with the rich guy, but you should sure as hell make sure your boss is okay with his customers giving you a monetary gift. You don't want that to come up sometime in the future and cost you your job.
