So yesterday, when I was in Lake Placid with my boss, we had a chat about Christmas gifts, who should whom gifts, etc. She's been getting push back from her two peers about gifting up to their boss. Can't remember how we got on the subject but she did mention it could be nice for our team to give her boss a little gift from us, we moved onto her team this year, and in my opinion, it may make my boss look good. She did tell me one of our team members was not thrilled with the idea, but she's out on maternity leave. She recommended I get something while we were there. I bought a candle in a gift shop there and lugged it home, emailed my team this morning about it. Two of them get back to me saying that they had this discussion with our boss and it was determined that it wouldn't be a good idea. Great. I forward my boss their comments telling her I guess there was a discussion that I wasn't a part of. She's like "Yes, I told you we had discussed this without you." No, no you didn't. Now you made me look like an idiot to my teammates AND I paid for something that I didn't need. I suppose I can find someone to give this item to, but still....