I had this happen in my game, except that I ended up with two praising gloves.

What happened was this: somehow or the other, when trying to praise one of my peeps for something, I clicked in the wrong spot. I got a message saying I couldn't click there (or something to that effect) and the next thing I knew, I didn't have a praising glove!

I panicked and exited out of the game. When I came back in, I had the praising glove back, but there was one in the store. I didn't want the one in the store taking up valuable store space, so I bought it figuring I got rid of the glove once, I could do it again. But this time, I can't seem to lose the glove.

I'm kinda glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem.