My boss sold a rare item I gave him in our guild's video game.
By @liamee · Gaming
I play an MMORPG with a few people from work, including my direct manager. I found a rare crafting material and gave it to him for free since he's a higher level and could make better use of it, but then I saw him list it on the in-game auction house for a huge amount of gold.
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I’ve been part of a casual gaming group with some coworkers for about a year. It's mostly just a fun way to decompress after work, and it includes my boss. We all play a popular MMORPG and have a small guild together where we trade items, run dungeons, etc. It's always been pretty chill. A few weeks ago, I got an extremely rare drop—a crafting component that has maybe a 0.1% chance of appearing. I don't have the high-level recipe to use it, but my boss does. Thinking I was being a good team player (and, okay, maybe scoring some minor brownie points), I just traded it to him. I said something like, "Here, you can actually make something cool with this." He was thankful and said he'd craft something for the guild once he had the other components. Fast forward to last night. I was browsing the in-game auction house, and I saw an item with the exact same stats and rarity for sale. The seller's name was anonymous, which is a feature on our server, but the starting bid and buyout price were astronomical—we're talking the equivalent of hundreds of hours of grinding for the gold. My guild has a 'bank' where we store valuable things, and this item would have been a massive upgrade for our collective gear. I just had a weird feeling, so I asked one of the other coworkers in the guild, who is more of an expert on the game's economy, if there's any way to track who is selling what. they said not really, but then he mentioned off-handedly that our boss had been bragging in a private chat about a 'big score' he was about to make on the market that would let him buy a coveted cosmetic mount. Now it feels incredibly awkward. It's a video game, but he essentially took a gift I gave him for our team and is monetizing it for his personal in-game profit. I don't know whether to bring it up, let it go, or just stop playing with them.
How people voted
- Side A — 30% (23 votes)
- Both — 43% (33 votes)
- Side B — 27% (21 votes)
Readers say “Both” (43%) — 77 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@jaxonok — I'm sure his leadership skills will translate well to his new cosmetic mount.
@sendhelp — bro what 😭
@lateagain — Never mix your work life and your personal life, this is exactly why.
@aidenmaybe — That was a really thoughtful and generous thing for you to do for the guild, it's a shame he didn't see it that way.
@judewelp — My manager at my last job ate the entire 'team' pizza I bought for everyone's lunch so I totally get it.
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