A senior manager’s generosity begins as quiet appreciation and slowly transforms into a form of ownership. What starts with small, seemingly harmless gifts becomes a calculated system of control, obligation, and retaliation when boundaries are finally enforced. This episode explores how power hides behind politeness, how gratitude can be weaponized, and how saying no too late can provoke cruelty disguised as professionalism. Told from the inside, this is a story about gifts that were never free—and the cost of trying to give them back.