How would you handle this?

Question

Just a hypothetical scenario:
If you're in charge of a $45,000 purchase order for your company, you are the key person and the only and the fully-authorized person to do this transaction on behalf of your company. Therefore, you found a vendor and give this lucky vendor your huge purchase order.

The chosen vendor was very happy to receive such a great deal from your company and especially your help on closing the deal with them.

The president of the vendor gives $4,500 cash to you and said it's a "commission" for you and it's how he wanted to show his appreciation. (Because it's all Cash, it's not trackable, as he claimed.)

How would you handle this situation?

Answer 1

Welcome to the real world Son! Just remember that once you take the first "handshake" there's no going back. When you've had enough, you'll lose everything because they aint gonna let you just walk away. (Unless of course you quit your job, and find an "apprentice" that you bloody with these tarnished ways to keep the tradition alive, and cover the interests of your vendor). People tossing around that type of cash aren't about to let you dictate the terms, even your "retirement" will need to be "approved" by them.


Cheers

Bronco

Answer 2

Hypothetical? OK. Give the $ back, cancel the contract and report the vendor before you end up either fired or worse. I think your conscience has already answered this question or you wouldn't have asked. Take the "high road". Not always a popular or highly traveled road. Blaze a path for what is right. You will never regret it.

Answer 3

I'm a stockbroker, so I know a LOT about sh!t that shouldn't ever be done.

The law is very clear; no material gift may be given whose value is in excess of $100 on an anual basis.

Now, it's not really immoral really, while this FEELS really wrong. Except that it MAY influence you in the future. That being said - how will you get caught. Now, I would not deposit the money, but I would report this to your boss - it's important that he know about this - after all, it COULD be a test that the boss set up to see about your loyalty. It's a risk to hold it, but it sounds like a very minor one, and while it's legally wrong, and morally could skew your tendency to be fair when picking a vendor, if you don't have a problem with it, then the Hell with it.