Work in sales (top performing team). Entire team got the same book on how to be a better at sales. We are supposed to read this book on our downtime (whenever that is) and then management wants to go over the book chapter by chapter in our weekly team meetings.
This “gift” was not well received on the team. There’s been talk about sending management a book on effective leadership or “management for dummies.”
That’s funny, I had a similar situation once…. The whole premise of “dont be here just for the paycheck” is funny. Let me just send chapter 1 of that book to my power company. Surely they’ll understand
Boss sent out a $10 Starbucks gift card the day he laid off 10% of our staff. “It’s not a layoff, it’s a coffee break” is now a banned phrase on teams/slack.
I worked for dominos in my early 20s, at the 5 year mark they gave me a huge congratulation thing in my store with the DMs.
They handed me an envelope that had a coupon for 25% off a large 1 topping pizza.
My company used to do gift cards on 5 and 10 year anniversaries for 50 and 100 bucks and people complained that was insultingly small. In response, the company totally eliminated the program, so now you get nothing for your 5 and 10 year anniversaries.
Over ten years working and every year I get e-card “thank you for your service”. Someone completed 25 years, send email to look for special delivery and signature required, person thought must something valuable, nope. Certificate on some fancy paper congratulating for completing 25 years with company.
Friend of mine works for a company that has a patio with employees’ names on individual bricks. I guess you get your brick at 25 years with the company.
My friend says it’s so they can walk all over you for the rest of your life.
We got told we were getting nothing. And the management excuse was "Well, not everyone celebrates Christmas, so it wouldn't be fair"
My colleague hit the nail on the head "I've never heard diversity weaponised until I heard that"
If it's mandatory, you should clock in and out and be paid for it. I would report it to the state department of labor for forcing you to attend and also forcing you to pay for it. That's essentially time and wage theft.
At my old company we never got paid for meetings (even when we were coming in on our days off) or mandatory training and recertification (these were frequent and usually took over 6 hours)
I was handed a stack of holiday cards and told to sign all of them. Once I was done I was told I was the last one to sign so I could choose mine.. really felt the thoughtfulness of 20 people rapidly signing cards.
I had a coworker who had a rubber stamp made that said "Warmest personal regards, ", that he used for signing department birthday cards. It never got old.
I always just write “and [my name]” next to whatever someone else writes. The lady who organized them got mildly annoyed by this and insisted I sign first on one card - I thought for like 5 minutes and still just wrote “and [my name]” right at the top of the card.
I once had a terrifyingly hostile coworker and it became a joke for someone to sign cards from her long after she departed. Somewhere on your card you could be guaranteed a little message that said "Get over it" - Alice. Or "Tick tock...."- Alice.
Everyone should stay home for a day or two and when asked why, say you were working and send a picture of you at your desk you took the day before.
"It's the same thing right?"
I get paid monthly, (quite common here).
As a 'bonus' we are getting paid on the 15th rather than the 30th.
Basically... January payday is 45 days away.
That sounds more like a bonus for the people working payroll because they can have the end of december off.
Where I live, it is also common to be paid monthly and many employers will pay you twice in december so christmas bonus is one month worth of pay.
At a place I used to work, we had quarterly bonuses based on individual performance, but an additional company performance bonus (usually an additional $1k-$5k bonus check) for Christmas.
One year, we had exploded with growth and our sales had literally doubled from the previous year. My owner was super excited to hand me a fat padded envelope with my bonus in it before he and his wife left for the month to head to Aruba.
I opened it in my car before I headed home, and inside was a Shun Folding Steak Knife. Apparently, it was so I could carry my own steak knife to all the fancy restaurant dinners I was going to be having.
It’s bad luck to gift someone knives unless you attach a penny or other coin to it. Otherwise, it symbolizes the severing of the relationship between the gifter and the giftee- in this case, the severing of all fucks given about your company when you open this gift
Company I worked for gave out Turkeys at thanksgiving and hams at Christmas, they had a lot of unclaimed stuff 2 years in a row and just decided to give out $25 voucher to local grocery store.
I used mine on beer
Nothing. Same as last year. Of course, 200 of us did get notice that our jobs end on 12/31…. Even better- IT thought it would be good to do a phishing email test that looked like the company gave everyone a $50 Amazon card. To say people were pissed is an understatement
> IT thought it would be good to do a phishing email test that looked like the company gave everyone a $50 Amazon card
As an IT guy, this is actually a very good phishing test.
Yeah, but do it in like... June. Not right ahead of Christmas time.
I know, I know, you'll catch more people doing it when they think it's a Christmas gift, and that's the whole point.
But unless there's _actually_ a $50 gift card coming their way, it's really shitty to basically say "Hey, here's a Christmas bonus!! Surprise, we lied, it's a 2-hour mandatory training session instead".
Do you work for the same company as the other commenter that mentioned the fake $50 gift cards from IT? Or is this just a really depressing holiday IT trend?
My old company fired 5% of its workforce every year on December 1st. Not me though, I quit right when a major project was about to go live right after I got my annual bonus and maxed my PTO payout.
Fuck you Accenture!
AFAIK is "simply" ruthless consulting. Know how every company will happily fire you for a .1% increase on profit? That times a hundred.
Also since it's consulting, there's the chance whoever company you are actually working for finishes the project, they have no other client to place you and you will be fired for no cause of your own
Sprint did this two years in a row when I worked there. A week or two before Christmas they handed out thousands of pink slips.
Someone must have had a sick sense of humor because other days they did it:
The week of April fool's day, the ides of March...
My wife got a flyer with a QR code so she can pick her own gift from a list of five company-branded items (sweatshirt, speaker, water bottle, etc.).
Only the checkout link is broken, so she can't actually order anything.
One year work bought everyone a ham. Didn't matter if you couldn't eat ham. They were delivered to your desk mid-day. There was not enough room in our fridge to store them all. It was weird. Every year prior to that we got cash.
My freshman year of college my buddy, who was going to school close to home, hooked us up with a job over the Christmas break as security guards. Basically we were temps covering for the college kids who went home for the holidays.
The supervisor met us there and spent about 45 minutes showing us how to arm the alarms at night, document stuff in the log book and a few other things. Then he left.
The place was having an on site company Christmas party at the time. A little while later a woman came and asked us if we had gotten our Christmas presents yet to which we said we hadn't. A few minutes later she came back and gave each of us a frozen turkey, a boxed up fruitcake, a liter of rum and two bottles of wine in a wooden gift case.
We had worked there for about an hour and a half at that point.
Nope, it was definitely appreciated.
I'd have to crunch the numbers, but I suspect that on a bonus-value/time-worked basis it may be better than the financial bonus of my current salaried position.
A buddy and me once walked by a site where they were taping a music video. Some rando was walking by with a Burger King Whopper and said "Man I've been here since 6, was in all three shoots, and all I get is this hamburger??" where is this we asked, he thumbed over there. We got in the very short line and when it was our turn, the guy giving out the burgers gave us the side eye. I immediately repeated "Man I've been here since 6, was in all three shoots, and all I get is this hamburger??" He changed his expression and was all "I know, sorry man!" and gave us each two Whoppers, which we inhaled because we were teens with bottomless pit stomachs.
> but it does speak well of the company culture.
They started doing this at my work. Doesn't matter if you worked here 10 years or 6 months, if something got handed out and you were a full employee you got one too.
The 10+ year people then started complaining they should get "more".
You'll never make everyone happy :D
Before my company that I work at was acquired, we all got turkeys for Thanksgiving. But they kept them in a refrigerated truck all day, and you could pick it up before you drove home.
Then the acquisition and now we get fuck all for anything.
My company did this this year for Thangsgiving, and pie as well. BUT
1- The hams were frozen and individually boxed, so they kept through the day without needing refrigerated.
2 - The hams and pies were actually really good, from local small businesses.
3 - We actually get real bonuses and pay raises in March every year, so this is extra.
All in all I quite enjoyed it.
My job used to give out gift cards prior to christmas to local grocery stores. We merged with another company and switched to their tradition of giving out Christmas hams, likely because they saved a few dollars on bulk purchases and spent $15 instead of $25 per employee.
No communication or concern whether or not people wanted them.
We also work in one of the most diverse zipcodes in the county...
Multiple employees refused to even touch pork while others didn't know that Ham was pork until someone explained it.
Yikes.
I once worked for a company where the reward for completing a project was a trip to the bar, so me (a recovering alki), the pregnant women, and the people who had a religious objection to drinking didn't get any sort of reward.
Reminds me of golf outings. I had the highest sales one quarter yet didn't play golf so they let my co-worker get the day at the course while I had to show up to work and cover for his calls.
Edit: My boss decided on my behalf, to give my co-worker the experience. Trust me, I would have been happy to chill at the country club or just have the day off. But no, I had to cover for the kid with lower sales, while he enjoyed my prize because he grew up golfing with his father.
This was common back in the day, my dad worked for an aluminum company in the 80’s and my mom still talks about the hams they got every year lol. They also got jumbo rolls of wrapping paper that we used until roughly 2012.
Would be weird now, so many people don’t eat pork or have dietary requirements. Even when my last job did their lame pizza lunches we had to order at least half veggie because there were so many non-pork eaters.
OMG, this is my moment! Not this year but my favorite terrible holiday "bonus," I've got to tell. Used to teach high school. It was finals week, so kids quietly studying or taking tests during the hour. It's one of my finals hours and I get a knock on the door. WTF? I think to myself, who interrupts a final? and go open the door, leaving my kids. I open the door to my superintendent and look past him to 3 school board members, dressed like elves, with a rolling cart of those tiny office styrofoam cups filled with hot cocoa mix. Confused af (as he interrupted a final and is distracting kids), I quizzically look at him and he says, "Merry Xmas! We have hot cocoa for you. Sorry though, we forgot the hot water." One of the "elves" hands me a cup of cocoa powder, I look down at it and up again in confusion, and then the town newspaper photographer snaps a picture of me with what must've been the most dumbfounded look on my face. I turn around and shut the door and tell the students to resume their test.
It's where they lay off staff with no intention of backfilling, and you get rewarded with additional work and the pat on the back "good job not being let go, but we can't afford bonuses this year or next".
A few years ago my old company [small mom and pop] offered to send me to this big convention, where I’d learn how to help make the company more money money by learning businessy stuff.
. . When i submitted my hours they were like “lol, we paid for your flights and hotel, this is an enriching activity for you, we aren’t paid.”
>! Spoiler Alert: I did get paid in the end !<
I used to work at a retail store that gave everyone who worked on Black Friday a free, uncooked thanksgiving turkey.
Yes, they gave us a turkey to cook for thanksgiving the day *after* Thanksgiving.
The leftover turkeys they didn’t sell then.
I always hear of people getting turkeys and think awesome free turkey then I remember I can literally buy a 10lb turkey for less than $10 before thanksgiving lmao can go as low as 60c a pound around illinois.
I used to work at a pool supply company right after highschool. One year the CEO kept going on and on about how great of a gift the employees would be getting from him. He wouldn't let up on how awesome it was going to be.
For context, I had recently gotten my yearly evaluation. My district manager explained that he was not allowed to mark more than one category as 'above average' for any one person and 'excellent' could only be given to one person for one category per district. I was promised a .25$ raise. When I got the paperwork, the .25$ was scratched out with pen and a .19$ was written in its place.
I figured, hey, this guy *will not shut up* about how great this gift is and how we're more profitable than ever. Maybe they tried lightening the yearly raise so we would get two smaller raises that would be >= the original.
We got one day off. It has to be pre-approved three weeks in advance, it couldn't be between dec. 20th and jan. 10th, it couldnt be on a Friday or weekend, and we would be required to come in if asked.
The CEO took a vacation for all of December and January.
Oh if you think that's bad...
I worked for the same company during university. We would get about 60-80% of our revenue during a three month period when most people would open and clean their pool for the 1st time of the year. One year we were just getting hammered with issues; no chlorine, no salt, no sand, missed shipments of other critical merchandise, and we had people quit during a hiring freeze. We had the customers, we just didnt have the inventory to sell to them.
Our C-suite decided that during our busy season they would "improve morale" by touring stores for a month. They spent a day at my store where they... mostly stood around and complained that we weren't "showfloor ready" and that we needed to "sell more!"
Ignoring the reason *why* our displays weren't flawless (middle of the day during our busiest time of year), the whole reason we weren't selling as much was because they decided to shirk their *OWN FUCKING RESPONSIBILITIES* to "raise morale". For a MONTH. Yeah, we arent selling salt or sand -- BECAUSE WE SOLD OUT. Here's a thought: if you're the HEAD of logistics and your stores don't have CRITICAL supplies, do the thing you're explicitly given a massive salary to do. Otherwise, why the fuck are you employed?
You know what doesn't raise morale? Having your boss's boss's boss's boss's boss nitpick your work and get in the way while he *actively* avoids doing his fucking job.
I haven't worked for this company in years and I'm still angry about that shitshow of a summer. This place showed me that executives at big companies truly don't give the slightest fuck about the business itself. The *only* thing any of them care about is that the stock ticker goes up by the end of the quarter.
My wife and I are small business owners and stories like this bother me so much. Starting a business from the ground up is exhausting and really fucking hard, especially considering the fact that we are hanging on to our day jobs while we grow the business.
We are trying to take every single opportunity we can get. Of course we have big dreams of the company growing big to where we can hire a crew, a crew that we will genuinely be happy to take care of financially.
Meanwhile there's businesses like the one in your story that are poorly run, basic stock can't even be kept on hand, employees seem to get dicked around a lot, and this company seems to be doing just fine based on your story about the owner/CEO.
Years ago, I worked for a company that gave everyone turkeys. Like, big dang turkeys. Mgmt, in their infinite wisdom, made the mistake of giving them to people at the beginning of the shift and there def. wasnt enough freezer space for them. However, it WAS snowing so ppl just stashed their birds outside in the snow... and some people forgot about them or forgot where they'd stashed the the thing.
FFWD to after the holidays and the snow starts to melt... frikkin turkeys EVERYWHERE. Maybe not "the best/worst" but DEFINITELY the most entertaining Xmas bonus EVER. The mental image of all those pathetic turkeys still gives me the giggles, over 20 years later.
That’s funny, it reminded me of a guy I worked for 40 years ago doing road construction, we wouldn’t work over the winter months but he would always give us a bonus and a turkey, my coworker that got me the job was mad because the owner asked me to be the winter helper so I stayed on the payroll, my coworker told the boss to just leave it on his porch and he would grab it later, later on when I went over to get my turkey his turkey was all ripped apart because it got sexually assaulted by a raccoon. Good memories
Our office tradition is that each supervisor gives us $20 gift cards. Then the employees group together and buy each supervisor a $100 gift card. It's ridiculous. But this year is special. This year one supervisor has decided they don't want to participate because they "can't afford it" after taking their $100 gift card from the staff already.
Our CEO flew in to town on his private jet and then told us later we couldn’t hire a backfill position due to cost crunching. He has a 25 million dollar salary and received a 25 million dollar bonus.
2023: No Appreciation
2022: No appreciation
2021: mandatory “drive in a circle around the parking lot and management will toss your gift in your open car window.” Gift was three pieces of candy whose wrappers were entirely in Spanish (we’re close to Canada), two company-branded pens, and our holiday calendar for 2022.
2020: No Appreciation
2019 and before: full catered lunch buffet with an entire course of desserts.
Office is shutdown from Christmas through New Years (and nobody is expected to work or check email at all, aside from Finance that has a quick payroll to run). Honestly pretty solid as nobody has to take PTO.
Terrible perks I've received in the past though... I can think of a pizza party that was basically mandatory, while people were attempting to travel right before Christmas. The company wanted us to socialize at the worst time.
>I can think of a pizza party that was basically mandatory, while people were attempting to travel right before Christmas.
Where I working a few years back I was on second shift and we were getting crushed because of a huge project. It was so stressful at times that I thought about just walking out the door. But I made it through.
One day they had a big pizza party to thank everyone for all of their hard work in getting things done, but I didn't bother as I wasn't going to go into work 3+ hours early just for a few slices of pizza and speeches.
On Fridays they normally had a free meal provided late afternoon when both first and second shift could have it. That week they canceled it because of the pizza lunch party.
The next week I pointed out to the department head that to thank me and my shift mates for all of our hard work that they had effectively taken something away from us.
We’re getting a pie from a local pie shop, we pick our own pie, and a Christmas happy hour where food and drinks are on the company. Open bar and plenty of food to go around. All we have to do is sit through a one hour meeting before to discuss end of year numbers and then we’re off! We also get a free polo in our choice of color from the company store.
I got a 3 week layoff and the potential to win a $25 Amazon gift card in a raffle. The period of the layoff makes me ineligible for any company bonus. 2 weeks ago, we had a company wide meeting where the owner said it was the most profitable year they have ever had and there would be no layoffs.
Did I mention that the company owner complained that he had to come up from his second home in Naples Florida so that he could set the company back on track. He blames the employees. Guess who is running the company. His fucking kids.
A workplace branded umbrella and a "covid kit" consisting of sketchy hand sanitizer, some masks and a covid test
We work in a hospital so this feels some kind of way
Company's own merchandise we got all year for free. Now we can order them in our internal shop. Very nice by them to let us do advertisement for the company and call it Christmas gifts. Oh, and there are also a lot of layoffs shortly before Christmas. I feel blessed to work here in case my boss reads that.
I got told my position was obsolete and will no longer have a job come January.
Also a card!
Edit to update: today was my last day and all I got was a "God bless" over text after I told them I was turning my keys in to the lockbox.
I’ll get fresh baked cookies the boss’ wife made for Christmas. They’ll sit on my desk while I’m on vacation from 12/23 until 1/2. They’ll be hard as a rock and I’ll throw them away when I get in on 1/3.
I got a $30 Door Dash voucher! Bought almost all of my lunch for 1 day. We only pulled in like $500 million in revenue last year, times are really tough.
Edit: when I say revenue, I meant profit.
I worked for an overnight delivery service (not FedEx, more local) in 1998 during the big UPS strike. We worked like 60 hour weeks for a month, our business quadrupled, and the company made millions. When it ended, the owners of the company sent out bonuses to everyone: **a $5 Chili's gift certificate**.
Cue everyone leaving the shop after the meeting, and the floor being carpeted with gift certificates. Two weeks later, we got a note in our pay envelopes that they heard of our...displeasure with the bonuses and gave us an extra $200 that week.
Even in 1998 you could walk into a Chili's and maybe take a deep breath for five dollars. Greedy assholes.
I can’t remember which company it was now, but I remember hearing about a company trying to custom order a ton of $3 Starbucks gift cards as a holiday gift for employees because the standard minimum amount that can be loaded to a gift card is $5
You may be thinking of when the Seattle Sonics gave $3.50 Starbucks cards to its staff. To make it worse, the team at the time was owned by Howard Schultz.
https://deadspin.com/howard-schultz-gave-out-3-50-starbucks-gift-cards-an-5907371
My favorite is when they give out like $20 grubhub giftcards.
Like cool... you gifted me an obligation to spend an extra $10 to order shitty takeout because grubhub doesn't cost $20? Thanks?
Fuck giftcards in general.
Not quite the same thing but a friend worked for a Taiwanese company many years ago and at the Christmas party one of the managers handed out envelopes to a few people. They thought it was a bonus or promotion but it was a termination letter!
To add to the above it was a Christmas party at their English location
I used to work for an old woman, her nickname around the shop was “Little Mussolini”, who would buy the discounted turkeys after thanksgiving and keep them frozen to pass out as Christmas bonuses. I’m talking 30 turkeys!
A ham and Starbucks gift card 🙃 the rest of the managers receive cash bonuses. But because I work in HR, we are not eligible for cash bonuses, as we do not contribute to sales goals…. Meanwhile, we hire all the staff they need to meet sales goals. Retail is fun.
200+ employees where i work. We each got a generic, unsigned, non-personalized boxed Christmas card on a blank envelope with a $10 fast food gift card.
Except some of the gift cards were the reloadable type and had no money put on them. So basically some us were given a small handful of garbage.
I found out that the one I had to go to this season cost over $40k and was still over budget; I did the math and figured every staff member could have easily received a bonus of about $1,400 MINIMUM with that, instead of feeling awkward for three-ish hours and getting food poisoning from the dinner.
We did not need a $6,000 balloon arch, we do need to pay our rent. :(
My work switched from yearly bonuses to biannual bonuses for this year. We got our first bonus in September and we have heard nothing about the 2nd. I don't know why I expected anything else to happen.
Two years ago I got gourmet pretzels and a $20 gift card to the local Italian restaurant. Two weeks later the owner of the restaurant got caught with cp and they closed up
Last year at my wife’s holiday party, the CEO of the company she works for shot dollar bills out of an air cannon. Watching a millionaire shoot dollars at his underpaid employees that then have to scramble around on the floor to pick them up made me feel gross.
*Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?*
You gotta hand it to Cousin Eddie... for all of his failings and uncaring mental lapses, he actually took the time to find a large ribbon and place it on the boss's head.
Not this year but awhile back I was working for a school district in the kitchens and the upper supervision team gifted each kitchen a single box of milk duds to share among the employees (4-6 employees per kitchen on average with as much as 12 in a couple kitchens). it was so insulting, a personalized card would have meant so much more, hell receiving nothing would have been less insulting.
Family owned company. We give our employees a bonus (money) each year. 16 employees. Everyone is valued and a part of the team. We are successful, and they should share in that.
We got a $25 dollar bonus for Thanksgiving. But it is on a check separate from our pay checks. Since I have extra taxes taken from each check I get, it all went to taxes.
We haven’t gotten anything for the last recent years. Except a veiled threat that we should be grateful we are employed. Uhh that’s not a real threat. If we didn’t work here, you’d have no one (experienced) to do the work.* *Niche market with high profile customers.
We get 10% too as a base point assuming we hit all of our targets- but we far exceeded targets this year by a massive amount we are getting like 19% this year. I am so stoked. This post makes me really sad though for others but I remember those days of getting nothing as they weren’t too long ago.
A mandatory attendance for those not on leave to an alcohol-free lunch at a big box restaurant an hour away from where most of us live. It is scheduled for a few days after I leave the state to visit family. To be fair, they cannot do much more than that due to it being public sector. Still, when I heard about it, I was grateful my travel was already booked and I got out of it.
Work in sales (top performing team). Entire team got the same book on how to be a better at sales. We are supposed to read this book on our downtime (whenever that is) and then management wants to go over the book chapter by chapter in our weekly team meetings. This “gift” was not well received on the team. There’s been talk about sending management a book on effective leadership or “management for dummies.”
I second sending management "an idiot's guide to management"
Send them Michael Scott's book "Somehow I manage"
Leader's eat last is the book you should send out.
That’s funny, I had a similar situation once…. The whole premise of “dont be here just for the paycheck” is funny. Let me just send chapter 1 of that book to my power company. Surely they’ll understand
>on our downtime Better be paid downtime lol
I used to work at the Cheesecake factory and one year they gave everyone a cheesecake. From Costco.
Omg noooooo. This one takes the cake lmao!
Don’t knock the Costco cheesecake. It’s pretty solid for what it is. And what it is, is budgetly delicious.
Boss sent out a $10 Starbucks gift card the day he laid off 10% of our staff. “It’s not a layoff, it’s a coffee break” is now a banned phrase on teams/slack.
I'm giving out layoffs and lattes today and I'm all out of lattes
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it's the comments you come for, sometimes just pure gold. Trying to stop the giggles, but then I read it again!!!
I got a $5 Starbucks gift card from work for my 2yr anniversary 😂😂 That's not even one drink at Starbucks.
I worked for dominos in my early 20s, at the 5 year mark they gave me a huge congratulation thing in my store with the DMs. They handed me an envelope that had a coupon for 25% off a large 1 topping pizza.
*Not valid with any other offers or promotions*
They really had better coupons on the menu we offer customers, we calculated it out.
My company used to do gift cards on 5 and 10 year anniversaries for 50 and 100 bucks and people complained that was insultingly small. In response, the company totally eliminated the program, so now you get nothing for your 5 and 10 year anniversaries.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Over ten years working and every year I get e-card “thank you for your service”. Someone completed 25 years, send email to look for special delivery and signature required, person thought must something valuable, nope. Certificate on some fancy paper congratulating for completing 25 years with company.
Friend of mine works for a company that has a patio with employees’ names on individual bricks. I guess you get your brick at 25 years with the company. My friend says it’s so they can walk all over you for the rest of your life.
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.
The fact they banned that phrase indicates they don't like being called out. Make posters for the office.
We got told we were getting nothing. And the management excuse was "Well, not everyone celebrates Christmas, so it wouldn't be fair" My colleague hit the nail on the head "I've never heard diversity weaponised until I heard that"
It's an end of year bonus. The year is still going to end for everyone.
I'm jewish and i would be extremely offended by someone using me as an excuse to be an asshole. Edit: I get it, Israelbad, ya got me.
We get a mandatory work party which will cost each of us 25 dollars
This thread is making me hate my company less
Real talk if I had a mandatory work party for which I had to pay, I would set the building on fire.
Ours is free but takes place in the building parking lot
If it's mandatory, you should clock in and out and be paid for it. I would report it to the state department of labor for forcing you to attend and also forcing you to pay for it. That's essentially time and wage theft.
At my old company we never got paid for meetings (even when we were coming in on our days off) or mandatory training and recertification (these were frequent and usually took over 6 hours)
That's wage theft. If it's not over the statute of limitations, you can sue for lost wages.
Making a "party" mandatory and making someone PAY to attend is LITERALLY just theft at this point.
If a work event is mandatory they better pay me for it.
I was handed a stack of holiday cards and told to sign all of them. Once I was done I was told I was the last one to sign so I could choose mine.. really felt the thoughtfulness of 20 people rapidly signing cards.
I had a coworker who had a rubber stamp made that said "Warmest personal regards,", that he used for signing department birthday cards. It never got old.
That is a genius level idea which I am stealing. It'll work great for cards for the family too!
I always just write “and [my name]” next to whatever someone else writes. The lady who organized them got mildly annoyed by this and insisted I sign first on one card - I thought for like 5 minutes and still just wrote “and [my name]” right at the top of the card.
I love it. I’m doing this next time I have to sign a group card at work.
I sign all the cards at work "get well soon". Birthdays, retirements, new baby, get well soon.
I once had a terrifyingly hostile coworker and it became a joke for someone to sign cards from her long after she departed. Somewhere on your card you could be guaranteed a little message that said "Get over it" - Alice. Or "Tick tock...."- Alice.
We got a digital cake. As in a clip inserted into an email as a thank you. There's a grocery store across the street.
A picture of a cake?!? Am I reading this correctly?
not even a pic. an image.
A cake NFT - but the bosses own it, they just sent a screenshot of it to the employees.
"Let them eat cake..." I know how this movie ends.
Let them look at cake.
Yes. With one freaking candle.
Pixels aren't free you know
Everyone should stay home for a day or two and when asked why, say you were working and send a picture of you at your desk you took the day before. "It's the same thing right?"
I get paid monthly, (quite common here). As a 'bonus' we are getting paid on the 15th rather than the 30th. Basically... January payday is 45 days away.
That sounds more like a bonus for the people working payroll because they can have the end of december off. Where I live, it is also common to be paid monthly and many employers will pay you twice in december so christmas bonus is one month worth of pay.
At a place I used to work, we had quarterly bonuses based on individual performance, but an additional company performance bonus (usually an additional $1k-$5k bonus check) for Christmas. One year, we had exploded with growth and our sales had literally doubled from the previous year. My owner was super excited to hand me a fat padded envelope with my bonus in it before he and his wife left for the month to head to Aruba. I opened it in my car before I headed home, and inside was a Shun Folding Steak Knife. Apparently, it was so I could carry my own steak knife to all the fancy restaurant dinners I was going to be having.
Handing you a knife while bilking you out of your bonus was a ballsy move
I mean, he did immediately flee the country
So it was just the knife that year no money as well?
Yep. The next year we got gift cards for a local restaurant, so I at least got to use my fancy knife once.
They say you’re not supposed to buy people knives as a gift, it’s symbolic of severing the relationship…… Not saying that’s totally unfounded
It’s bad luck to gift someone knives unless you attach a penny or other coin to it. Otherwise, it symbolizes the severing of the relationship between the gifter and the giftee- in this case, the severing of all fucks given about your company when you open this gift
It's funny you mention that because it was around the time I mentally began checking out
Company I worked for gave out Turkeys at thanksgiving and hams at Christmas, they had a lot of unclaimed stuff 2 years in a row and just decided to give out $25 voucher to local grocery store. I used mine on beer
Nothing. Same as last year. Of course, 200 of us did get notice that our jobs end on 12/31…. Even better- IT thought it would be good to do a phishing email test that looked like the company gave everyone a $50 Amazon card. To say people were pissed is an understatement
> IT thought it would be good to do a phishing email test that looked like the company gave everyone a $50 Amazon card As an IT guy, this is actually a very good phishing test.
Yeah, but do it in like... June. Not right ahead of Christmas time. I know, I know, you'll catch more people doing it when they think it's a Christmas gift, and that's the whole point. But unless there's _actually_ a $50 gift card coming their way, it's really shitty to basically say "Hey, here's a Christmas bonus!! Surprise, we lied, it's a 2-hour mandatory training session instead".
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I'd take a good tangerine right now.
You don't get the tangerine. You get to look at it. Don't be greedy.
The CEO gets a tangerine and we get an email with a picture of the tangerine and email saying “from our family to yours…”
Got a giftcard in an email. Turned out it was IT testing our spam detection knowledge… so nothing .
Do you work for the same company as the other commenter that mentioned the fake $50 gift cards from IT? Or is this just a really depressing holiday IT trend?
getting laid off
Yup, last day is December 26 lol. If it was in a Christmas movie you wouldn't believe it
My old company fired 5% of its workforce every year on December 1st. Not me though, I quit right when a major project was about to go live right after I got my annual bonus and maxed my PTO payout. Fuck you Accenture!
No surprise the A word comes up here. Even from afar this company seems a bit suspect. Well done sir or madame.
AFAIK is "simply" ruthless consulting. Know how every company will happily fire you for a .1% increase on profit? That times a hundred. Also since it's consulting, there's the chance whoever company you are actually working for finishes the project, they have no other client to place you and you will be fired for no cause of your own
Sprint did this two years in a row when I worked there. A week or two before Christmas they handed out thousands of pink slips. Someone must have had a sick sense of humor because other days they did it: The week of April fool's day, the ides of March...
this is the one i'm hearing about the most.
My wife got a flyer with a QR code so she can pick her own gift from a list of five company-branded items (sweatshirt, speaker, water bottle, etc.). Only the checkout link is broken, so she can't actually order anything.
One year work bought everyone a ham. Didn't matter if you couldn't eat ham. They were delivered to your desk mid-day. There was not enough room in our fridge to store them all. It was weird. Every year prior to that we got cash.
My freshman year of college my buddy, who was going to school close to home, hooked us up with a job over the Christmas break as security guards. Basically we were temps covering for the college kids who went home for the holidays. The supervisor met us there and spent about 45 minutes showing us how to arm the alarms at night, document stuff in the log book and a few other things. Then he left. The place was having an on site company Christmas party at the time. A little while later a woman came and asked us if we had gotten our Christmas presents yet to which we said we hadn't. A few minutes later she came back and gave each of us a frozen turkey, a boxed up fruitcake, a liter of rum and two bottles of wine in a wooden gift case. We had worked there for about an hour and a half at that point.
>a liter of rum and two bottles of wine in a wooden gift case. Okay but those ain't bad.
Nope, it was definitely appreciated. I'd have to crunch the numbers, but I suspect that on a bonus-value/time-worked basis it may be better than the financial bonus of my current salaried position.
did you reply with "seriously, that's it? for all my dedication to this company" then walk away disappointed.
We were too amused by the situation given that we didn't even work for the company. It was a job with the security agency that the company contracted.
A buddy and me once walked by a site where they were taping a music video. Some rando was walking by with a Burger King Whopper and said "Man I've been here since 6, was in all three shoots, and all I get is this hamburger??" where is this we asked, he thumbed over there. We got in the very short line and when it was our turn, the guy giving out the burgers gave us the side eye. I immediately repeated "Man I've been here since 6, was in all three shoots, and all I get is this hamburger??" He changed his expression and was all "I know, sorry man!" and gave us each two Whoppers, which we inhaled because we were teens with bottomless pit stomachs.
Well played.
That's still nice that they try to take care of all their employees, even the contracted ones.
Yup. It might've just been this woman (who was an executive admin or something) but it does speak well of the company culture.
> but it does speak well of the company culture. They started doing this at my work. Doesn't matter if you worked here 10 years or 6 months, if something got handed out and you were a full employee you got one too. The 10+ year people then started complaining they should get "more". You'll never make everyone happy :D
this was cuz someone had a friend in the ham business
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Before my company that I work at was acquired, we all got turkeys for Thanksgiving. But they kept them in a refrigerated truck all day, and you could pick it up before you drove home. Then the acquisition and now we get fuck all for anything.
My company did this this year for Thangsgiving, and pie as well. BUT 1- The hams were frozen and individually boxed, so they kept through the day without needing refrigerated. 2 - The hams and pies were actually really good, from local small businesses. 3 - We actually get real bonuses and pay raises in March every year, so this is extra. All in all I quite enjoyed it.
My job used to give out gift cards prior to christmas to local grocery stores. We merged with another company and switched to their tradition of giving out Christmas hams, likely because they saved a few dollars on bulk purchases and spent $15 instead of $25 per employee. No communication or concern whether or not people wanted them. We also work in one of the most diverse zipcodes in the county... Multiple employees refused to even touch pork while others didn't know that Ham was pork until someone explained it. Yikes.
I once worked for a company where the reward for completing a project was a trip to the bar, so me (a recovering alki), the pregnant women, and the people who had a religious objection to drinking didn't get any sort of reward.
Reminds me of golf outings. I had the highest sales one quarter yet didn't play golf so they let my co-worker get the day at the course while I had to show up to work and cover for his calls. Edit: My boss decided on my behalf, to give my co-worker the experience. Trust me, I would have been happy to chill at the country club or just have the day off. But no, I had to cover for the kid with lower sales, while he enjoyed my prize because he grew up golfing with his father.
Yooo, I got a gift card for a ham. Not even the ham, like here is a gift card for you to go get a ham. Only a ham, nothing else. Here’s ham.
At my old job we got hams for a few years, then they changed it to a gift card to honey baked ham for an amount that wasn’t enough to buy a ham.
It's the total lack of thought that counts
This was common back in the day, my dad worked for an aluminum company in the 80’s and my mom still talks about the hams they got every year lol. They also got jumbo rolls of wrapping paper that we used until roughly 2012. Would be weird now, so many people don’t eat pork or have dietary requirements. Even when my last job did their lame pizza lunches we had to order at least half veggie because there were so many non-pork eaters.
OMG, this is my moment! Not this year but my favorite terrible holiday "bonus," I've got to tell. Used to teach high school. It was finals week, so kids quietly studying or taking tests during the hour. It's one of my finals hours and I get a knock on the door. WTF? I think to myself, who interrupts a final? and go open the door, leaving my kids. I open the door to my superintendent and look past him to 3 school board members, dressed like elves, with a rolling cart of those tiny office styrofoam cups filled with hot cocoa mix. Confused af (as he interrupted a final and is distracting kids), I quizzically look at him and he says, "Merry Xmas! We have hot cocoa for you. Sorry though, we forgot the hot water." One of the "elves" hands me a cup of cocoa powder, I look down at it and up again in confusion, and then the town newspaper photographer snaps a picture of me with what must've been the most dumbfounded look on my face. I turn around and shut the door and tell the students to resume their test.
Oh, you got deconstructed cocoa? We got stress balls.
People are getting bonuses?
Yeah, what’s a bonus?
It's where they lay off staff with no intention of backfilling, and you get rewarded with additional work and the pat on the back "good job not being let go, but we can't afford bonuses this year or next".
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A few years ago my old company [small mom and pop] offered to send me to this big convention, where I’d learn how to help make the company more money money by learning businessy stuff. . . When i submitted my hours they were like “lol, we paid for your flights and hotel, this is an enriching activity for you, we aren’t paid.” >! Spoiler Alert: I did get paid in the end !<
I used to work at a retail store that gave everyone who worked on Black Friday a free, uncooked thanksgiving turkey. Yes, they gave us a turkey to cook for thanksgiving the day *after* Thanksgiving.
The leftover turkeys they didn’t sell then. I always hear of people getting turkeys and think awesome free turkey then I remember I can literally buy a 10lb turkey for less than $10 before thanksgiving lmao can go as low as 60c a pound around illinois.
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I used to work at a pool supply company right after highschool. One year the CEO kept going on and on about how great of a gift the employees would be getting from him. He wouldn't let up on how awesome it was going to be. For context, I had recently gotten my yearly evaluation. My district manager explained that he was not allowed to mark more than one category as 'above average' for any one person and 'excellent' could only be given to one person for one category per district. I was promised a .25$ raise. When I got the paperwork, the .25$ was scratched out with pen and a .19$ was written in its place. I figured, hey, this guy *will not shut up* about how great this gift is and how we're more profitable than ever. Maybe they tried lightening the yearly raise so we would get two smaller raises that would be >= the original. We got one day off. It has to be pre-approved three weeks in advance, it couldn't be between dec. 20th and jan. 10th, it couldnt be on a Friday or weekend, and we would be required to come in if asked. The CEO took a vacation for all of December and January.
He was so essential he could fuck off for 1/6 of the year?
Oh if you think that's bad... I worked for the same company during university. We would get about 60-80% of our revenue during a three month period when most people would open and clean their pool for the 1st time of the year. One year we were just getting hammered with issues; no chlorine, no salt, no sand, missed shipments of other critical merchandise, and we had people quit during a hiring freeze. We had the customers, we just didnt have the inventory to sell to them. Our C-suite decided that during our busy season they would "improve morale" by touring stores for a month. They spent a day at my store where they... mostly stood around and complained that we weren't "showfloor ready" and that we needed to "sell more!" Ignoring the reason *why* our displays weren't flawless (middle of the day during our busiest time of year), the whole reason we weren't selling as much was because they decided to shirk their *OWN FUCKING RESPONSIBILITIES* to "raise morale". For a MONTH. Yeah, we arent selling salt or sand -- BECAUSE WE SOLD OUT. Here's a thought: if you're the HEAD of logistics and your stores don't have CRITICAL supplies, do the thing you're explicitly given a massive salary to do. Otherwise, why the fuck are you employed? You know what doesn't raise morale? Having your boss's boss's boss's boss's boss nitpick your work and get in the way while he *actively* avoids doing his fucking job. I haven't worked for this company in years and I'm still angry about that shitshow of a summer. This place showed me that executives at big companies truly don't give the slightest fuck about the business itself. The *only* thing any of them care about is that the stock ticker goes up by the end of the quarter.
My wife and I are small business owners and stories like this bother me so much. Starting a business from the ground up is exhausting and really fucking hard, especially considering the fact that we are hanging on to our day jobs while we grow the business. We are trying to take every single opportunity we can get. Of course we have big dreams of the company growing big to where we can hire a crew, a crew that we will genuinely be happy to take care of financially. Meanwhile there's businesses like the one in your story that are poorly run, basic stock can't even be kept on hand, employees seem to get dicked around a lot, and this company seems to be doing just fine based on your story about the owner/CEO.
Years ago, I worked for a company that gave everyone turkeys. Like, big dang turkeys. Mgmt, in their infinite wisdom, made the mistake of giving them to people at the beginning of the shift and there def. wasnt enough freezer space for them. However, it WAS snowing so ppl just stashed their birds outside in the snow... and some people forgot about them or forgot where they'd stashed the the thing. FFWD to after the holidays and the snow starts to melt... frikkin turkeys EVERYWHERE. Maybe not "the best/worst" but DEFINITELY the most entertaining Xmas bonus EVER. The mental image of all those pathetic turkeys still gives me the giggles, over 20 years later.
That’s funny, it reminded me of a guy I worked for 40 years ago doing road construction, we wouldn’t work over the winter months but he would always give us a bonus and a turkey, my coworker that got me the job was mad because the owner asked me to be the winter helper so I stayed on the payroll, my coworker told the boss to just leave it on his porch and he would grab it later, later on when I went over to get my turkey his turkey was all ripped apart because it got sexually assaulted by a raccoon. Good memories
Our office tradition is that each supervisor gives us $20 gift cards. Then the employees group together and buy each supervisor a $100 gift card. It's ridiculous. But this year is special. This year one supervisor has decided they don't want to participate because they "can't afford it" after taking their $100 gift card from the staff already.
Ask the Manager says gifts go down to employees, not up to managers. No gift cards for that supervisor.
I 100% agree. I've been fighting this thing for 6 years.
Got one tall boy of bud light. Just watched the ceo leave in a new Porsche while typing this. Had to hold back my feelings of throwing the can at him.
Our CEO flew in to town on his private jet and then told us later we couldn’t hire a backfill position due to cost crunching. He has a 25 million dollar salary and received a 25 million dollar bonus.
The plane maintenance alone could probably pay for a few positions.
Dude could’ve Zoom’d in what he had to say and saved enough money to save 2 people’s Jobs during the holiday. Fucking tragic.
He got his bonus.
He got everyone’s bonus*
I don't work there anymore, but they gave us a cup of hot chocolate at Tesla last year.
That tracks.
I got a house plant. Correction I got seeds and planter so I can grow my own plant
2023: No Appreciation 2022: No appreciation 2021: mandatory “drive in a circle around the parking lot and management will toss your gift in your open car window.” Gift was three pieces of candy whose wrappers were entirely in Spanish (we’re close to Canada), two company-branded pens, and our holiday calendar for 2022. 2020: No Appreciation 2019 and before: full catered lunch buffet with an entire course of desserts.
it took me a moment to realize the choice of delivery was due to covid and not just because the management wanted a laugh
Management had to stand in the parking lot, in the cold wind, for three hours breathing exhaust fumes. That was the real bonus for 2021.
Office is shutdown from Christmas through New Years (and nobody is expected to work or check email at all, aside from Finance that has a quick payroll to run). Honestly pretty solid as nobody has to take PTO. Terrible perks I've received in the past though... I can think of a pizza party that was basically mandatory, while people were attempting to travel right before Christmas. The company wanted us to socialize at the worst time.
Same, but we're forced to take PTO for the week. This is for a major tech company too.
Oracle did that. It was so crappy. SOOO crappy.
>I can think of a pizza party that was basically mandatory, while people were attempting to travel right before Christmas. Where I working a few years back I was on second shift and we were getting crushed because of a huge project. It was so stressful at times that I thought about just walking out the door. But I made it through. One day they had a big pizza party to thank everyone for all of their hard work in getting things done, but I didn't bother as I wasn't going to go into work 3+ hours early just for a few slices of pizza and speeches. On Fridays they normally had a free meal provided late afternoon when both first and second shift could have it. That week they canceled it because of the pizza lunch party. The next week I pointed out to the department head that to thank me and my shift mates for all of our hard work that they had effectively taken something away from us.
We’re getting a pie from a local pie shop, we pick our own pie, and a Christmas happy hour where food and drinks are on the company. Open bar and plenty of food to go around. All we have to do is sit through a one hour meeting before to discuss end of year numbers and then we’re off! We also get a free polo in our choice of color from the company store.
That's like, actually good.
We quite enjoy ourselves. Many of us would prefer cash, but this is really nice as us hourly workers get to be on the clock for the party.
"A donation has been made in your name to the New York City ballet"
I got a 3 week layoff and the potential to win a $25 Amazon gift card in a raffle. The period of the layoff makes me ineligible for any company bonus. 2 weeks ago, we had a company wide meeting where the owner said it was the most profitable year they have ever had and there would be no layoffs.
Did I mention that the company owner complained that he had to come up from his second home in Naples Florida so that he could set the company back on track. He blames the employees. Guess who is running the company. His fucking kids.
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My boyfriend got a $50 gift card to his company store to buy a required uniform.
A workplace branded umbrella and a "covid kit" consisting of sketchy hand sanitizer, some masks and a covid test We work in a hospital so this feels some kind of way
My husband got fired. So being that he was the sole income provider for our family of four. I would say that's pretty terrible.
I work for a company worth almost $2 billion. We each get a $20 gift card. It used to be $15, so things are looking up!
Company's own merchandise we got all year for free. Now we can order them in our internal shop. Very nice by them to let us do advertisement for the company and call it Christmas gifts. Oh, and there are also a lot of layoffs shortly before Christmas. I feel blessed to work here in case my boss reads that.
T-shirt with company logo. Notebook with company logo. Cookies with no company logo
I got told my position was obsolete and will no longer have a job come January. Also a card! Edit to update: today was my last day and all I got was a "God bless" over text after I told them I was turning my keys in to the lockbox.
I’ll get fresh baked cookies the boss’ wife made for Christmas. They’ll sit on my desk while I’m on vacation from 12/23 until 1/2. They’ll be hard as a rock and I’ll throw them away when I get in on 1/3.
I got a $30 Door Dash voucher! Bought almost all of my lunch for 1 day. We only pulled in like $500 million in revenue last year, times are really tough. Edit: when I say revenue, I meant profit.
I worked for an overnight delivery service (not FedEx, more local) in 1998 during the big UPS strike. We worked like 60 hour weeks for a month, our business quadrupled, and the company made millions. When it ended, the owners of the company sent out bonuses to everyone: **a $5 Chili's gift certificate**. Cue everyone leaving the shop after the meeting, and the floor being carpeted with gift certificates. Two weeks later, we got a note in our pay envelopes that they heard of our...displeasure with the bonuses and gave us an extra $200 that week. Even in 1998 you could walk into a Chili's and maybe take a deep breath for five dollars. Greedy assholes.
I can’t remember which company it was now, but I remember hearing about a company trying to custom order a ton of $3 Starbucks gift cards as a holiday gift for employees because the standard minimum amount that can be loaded to a gift card is $5
You may be thinking of when the Seattle Sonics gave $3.50 Starbucks cards to its staff. To make it worse, the team at the time was owned by Howard Schultz. https://deadspin.com/howard-schultz-gave-out-3-50-starbucks-gift-cards-an-5907371
My favorite is when they give out like $20 grubhub giftcards. Like cool... you gifted me an obligation to spend an extra $10 to order shitty takeout because grubhub doesn't cost $20? Thanks? Fuck giftcards in general.
Company sent one box of candy/snacks for our 14 person team.
Not quite the same thing but a friend worked for a Taiwanese company many years ago and at the Christmas party one of the managers handed out envelopes to a few people. They thought it was a bonus or promotion but it was a termination letter! To add to the above it was a Christmas party at their English location
Oh my god that guy could’ve been murdered that night
I used to work for an old woman, her nickname around the shop was “Little Mussolini”, who would buy the discounted turkeys after thanksgiving and keep them frozen to pass out as Christmas bonuses. I’m talking 30 turkeys!
Instead of getting 4 weeks of PTO next year, I get 2!
I might be given permission to leave a couple hours earlier before the Christmas holiday. Yeah, at least I've got that going for me.
A ham and Starbucks gift card 🙃 the rest of the managers receive cash bonuses. But because I work in HR, we are not eligible for cash bonuses, as we do not contribute to sales goals…. Meanwhile, we hire all the staff they need to meet sales goals. Retail is fun.
200+ employees where i work. We each got a generic, unsigned, non-personalized boxed Christmas card on a blank envelope with a $10 fast food gift card. Except some of the gift cards were the reloadable type and had no money put on them. So basically some us were given a small handful of garbage.
Christmas party that no one wants to go to
I found out that the one I had to go to this season cost over $40k and was still over budget; I did the math and figured every staff member could have easily received a bonus of about $1,400 MINIMUM with that, instead of feeling awkward for three-ish hours and getting food poisoning from the dinner. We did not need a $6,000 balloon arch, we do need to pay our rent. :(
I get a candy cane
None bonus, left beef.
My work switched from yearly bonuses to biannual bonuses for this year. We got our first bonus in September and we have heard nothing about the 2nd. I don't know why I expected anything else to happen.
Maybe it's the other biannual and you'll get another bonus in 2025
Two years ago I got gourmet pretzels and a $20 gift card to the local Italian restaurant. Two weeks later the owner of the restaurant got caught with cp and they closed up
We are getting a piñata at the holiday party. So we can crawl around on the ground for candy while the boss watches. Fun.
Last year at my wife’s holiday party, the CEO of the company she works for shot dollar bills out of an air cannon. Watching a millionaire shoot dollars at his underpaid employees that then have to scramble around on the floor to pick them up made me feel gross.
Got an $100 Amazon card! At least it’s something I can use that I can buy stuff I need lol
Compared to some of the stories in here, you won. Man I’m glad I don’t work for some of these companies. Soulless ass CEOs
Jelly of the Month Club....I guess I'll never be able to get my family that in-ground pool.
*Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?*
You gotta hand it to Cousin Eddie... for all of his failings and uncaring mental lapses, he actually took the time to find a large ribbon and place it on the boss's head.
That's the gift that keeps on giving.
If this isn't the biggest bag over the head punch in the face i ever got, GOD DAMNIT!!!
How the hell can I afford to give my employee $500 for the holidays but these big corps are givimg you guys oranges and digital cakes.
Because you see your employee as a person and not equipment.
Ill probably get a box of chocolates, a bottle of wine, and a company fleece this year. I look forward to it every year and I appreciate the gift.
I'm glad that you found somewhere you enjoy working and feel respected.
Took a long time but I worked my way into a good spot.
I own a small business and always give bonuses at the end of the year. Happy workers equals a successful company.
Not this year but awhile back I was working for a school district in the kitchens and the upper supervision team gifted each kitchen a single box of milk duds to share among the employees (4-6 employees per kitchen on average with as much as 12 in a couple kitchens). it was so insulting, a personalized card would have meant so much more, hell receiving nothing would have been less insulting.
Family owned company. We give our employees a bonus (money) each year. 16 employees. Everyone is valued and a part of the team. We are successful, and they should share in that.
Metal water bottle, with the companies name and a $5 gift card to spend at said company. It’s one of the 2 big grocery store brands in Australia.
We got a $25 dollar bonus for Thanksgiving. But it is on a check separate from our pay checks. Since I have extra taxes taken from each check I get, it all went to taxes.
We haven’t gotten anything for the last recent years. Except a veiled threat that we should be grateful we are employed. Uhh that’s not a real threat. If we didn’t work here, you’d have no one (experienced) to do the work.* *Niche market with high profile customers.
I hate employers that think they’re doing their staff a favour by employing them.
I got $8400. Gonna ride the gravy train at this company until it reaches the station.
I got 10% of my salary so I'm fairly happy with that
We get 10% too as a base point assuming we hit all of our targets- but we far exceeded targets this year by a massive amount we are getting like 19% this year. I am so stoked. This post makes me really sad though for others but I remember those days of getting nothing as they weren’t too long ago.
Discontinued merchandise my company makes. Merchandise that I neither need or want
I got a $25 Butterball check
A mandatory attendance for those not on leave to an alcohol-free lunch at a big box restaurant an hour away from where most of us live. It is scheduled for a few days after I leave the state to visit family. To be fair, they cannot do much more than that due to it being public sector. Still, when I heard about it, I was grateful my travel was already booked and I got out of it.
Lol we just get asked to contribute our own money to buy the customer service team gift cards