I work at a specialty outpatient clinic at a hospital. I work front desk. We have RNs, MAs and MDs working here. One MD is retiring after decades of working at the hospital.
Our clinic supervisor is putting it on us, the overworked staff, to plan a “potluck” and pitch in for a gift. Nothing has been planned or will be paid for by the hospital.
I'm not pitching in a single cent of my money to buy a gift for a doctor. But it's kind of sad, isn't it. The MD put in decades of work and now not even receiving so much as a going away party by the hospital.
I hope she likes the deviled eggs(and whatever home made monstrosity that people will bring) and the $10 gift card to starbucks that our clinic will give her.