Okay, I need help approaching this. I'm new to this job, I've only been there since june. My boss is new to the job, she was in training since a few weeks after I started and has only been managing the department a little over a month. My old boss left to have a baby, and all of us in the department decided to get together on a present. Since my SO had just gotten a bonus, I volunteered to put it on my card and order it and whathaveyou. Everyone in the department was going to give me 9 dollars and change. Then my new boss came down and offered to chip in, so everyone only had to give 8 and change. Everyone but the new boss has paid me back.
I'm really uncomfortable asking for money, even when it's owed me, but I'm more than a little resentful that as a new person, earning much less than her, I paid double for the present. She spent over a month in training elbow-to-elbow with the old boss, while I spent all of two days with her, and saw her intermittently afterward due to my job doesn't require direct involvement like that. Bottom line, new boss knows old boss much better than I did.
I understand she's in a position right now under a lot of pressure (she called me up to her office twice in the last two days to talk to me about the same thing. It made me feel like crap, but it also showed that she seemed to have forgotten she'd already spoken to me.) What with being called out on the job yesterday and the day before, and my apprehension already of asking for things, I don't want to approach her, but it looks like either I have to, or I have to eat the eight bucks which doesn't sound like much, but dammit she can fucking afford eight bucks. That's an extra hour of work for me.
I spoke about it to one of my senior coworkers, she said she'd say something, but she never did. I don't know what to do, and the longer I put it off the more awkward it's becoming.