Miss Manners: Tenured colleague's gift requests feel like coercion
A tenured faculty member repeatedly asks colleagues — including non-tenured subordinates — to chip in for group gifts and insists contributions not be anonymous so he can verify who paid.
Dear Miss Manners: A tenured colleague (I work in education) routinely solicits the faculty to contribute to group gifts. This colleague sends the requests not only to those of us with tenure, but also to subordinates who lack tenure and whose jobs are dependent on the approval of tenured faculty members (including the solicitor).