I have worked in procurement for close to 30 years. I have never accepted a gift that was worth more than a gift I would buy for a casual friend’s birthday. Typically the gifts are caps, coffee mugs and other cheap promotional crap.
I will not go deep sea fishing, on golf junkets or shoot skeet in tournaments. If we go out to lunch we eat at the same places my co-workers and I frequent.
My company trusts me and I could not live with myself if I stole from them.
Maybe that is why they trust me.
“I have worked in procurement for close to 30 years.”
DOD/FedGov procurement?
Been forced to sole-source purchases from a certain Cong./Sen.’s district/State?
Private vs.”Public” procurement procedures widely vary...