Originally Posted by
ysolde
Heck, even vendors tip -- three times a year, you can count on huge baskets of baked goods on your desk from various vendors, hoping to either keep your business or woo you over to them. On a cold morning, that was almost as good as a first class trip to Paris.
The company Mr. Nacho works for has a very strict policy about NOT accepting any gift from vendors.
It sounds like bribery more than anything else. In a way, tipping is also a kind of bribery. At least by definition from Wiki:
Bribery is an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient.