My ex boss has stolen my leaving collection

[Sadleaver]

I left my last job a month ago. My boss said he would put my leaving card and gift (bought with the money from a staff collection) in the post, as he wasn't around on my last day working in the office (hybrid working). He recently told one of my former colleagues he sent me a £50 John Lewis voucher, a bottle of gin and some sweets that I like, posted on my last day. But nothing has arrived, and there are no issues with my post deliveries. Interestingly, he doesn't know my address and has never asked me for it...

I genuinely don't care about a bottle of booze and a voucher, it's the principal of taking other people's money I'm annoyed with. I know I have no evidence but this manager is a bully and keeps getting away with horrible behaviour (which is why I left). He got caught stealing bottles of wine from our Xmas party a few years back, so he has form. Surely he'd have sent a parcel valued at roughly £80 by signed for post as well, or would check that I'd received it?

Would I be mad to say something?

That’s awful!!

One way to get your address i from HR though so he might tell you that

I would, of course, ask him for the tracking number from post office and if he says he doesn’t have it I’d send an email to the team thanking them for their donations but saying sadly it seems to have got lost somewhere

Pipe up buttercup.

fuck it id say something just out of principle

I'd tell ex colleagues I was still in touch with that you haven't received the gift. Otherwise they will think you ungrateful. I'd also email your ex boss about it (and copy in HR?), Dump him in the crap.

Dob him in the c**t

What a shit thing to do! Definitely drop him in it, ask him direct where it is/when it was sent and let your former colleagues know it hasn’t been passed on

Say something, or he will do it again and again (the rotten scuzzer).

So he is a thief?

Yep, email HR and him saying you have not received the gift, ask for tracking details and mention no address details from you.

Yes, definitely say something to HR and your former colleagues. He’s a thief.

Get in touch with HR. He's stolen from your former colleagues. He needs curtailing.

I think his manager would be interested of he is a thief

Oh no no no. Shout it from the rooftops! Tell everyone. Email everyone apologising profusely for not thanking them for contributing, but you had no idea until someone told you recently because you never received anything. Feel free also to email HR with your suspicions.

I would tell your colleagues, purely because if I had donated to a gift I’d want to know if some cheeky thieving bastard had stolen it.

Deffo say something. For a start he wouldn’t send a gift card unregistered or recorded that would be madness and the cost to send a bottle of gin would fairly expensive. So the fact he said he posted them is suss, if he doesn’t have any tracking that’s even worse. Grass him up.

Absolutely shout it from the rooftops that you receive nothing. Theiving sod.

Why on earth wouldn't you say anything?!

Either he's not gotten around to posting it, or he's stolen it.

definitely say something to your ex colleagues!

He sounds horrible. I am not sure that I would get tangled up with such a nasty person. Might it fuck any future reference that you could need?

I’d say something to your colleagues and then leave it to them to chase it up.

Is he the same boss who forgot your birthday and removed the reminder from the works calendar?

A bottle of gin is a hard thing to mail, it weighs a lot and it's contents are flammable. You might suggest that someone asks what it cost him to send it as they'd like to send Uncle Pete a bottle of Scotch for his birthday.

Who posts a bottle of gin? That would cost almost it's own value in postage. Do you live far away? Surely someone would drop this stuff round.

Let people know you haven't received anything. It might be possible to do something about the gift card using the receipt - you should say.

Play it well, email the office and say... X told me that Y had posted me a voucher and bottle of drink, it hasn't arrived and I'm worried it may be lost in the post. Would you have the tracking details so I can chance it up? Hope you are all well.
That way they all know what he's done, the office staff will spread it round, you won't get your gift but at least people will know.

Please write a letter to the Chief Executive or Board of Directors. It will alert them to the viper in the nest, and if they have any ethics...a few bottles of wine shall end up on your doorstep soon. I run a business and I would like to know if my staff were conducting themselves in this way. It is not just about your gift but the red flag that gives off for wider unprofessional conduct.

@Strokethefurrywall

Why on earth wouldn't you say anything?!

Either he's not gotten around to posting it, or he's stolen it.

Because so many people have complained about this manager, and the company sticks their head in the sand and treats his 'victims' like they're in the wrong!