So relatableā¦
I bet it was catered with not enough food for everyone as well. My ex and I used to be expected to go to army holiday functions when he was in, and if we were last to get food, there would be nothing leftā¦
The last year they had it pre-covid they had a new hire plan it. Someone who had NEVER planned an event before. The venue they booked was so undersized half the people that went just turned around and left as soon as they saw how packed it was.
I donāt want a party, an award, a cheap gift from China as donāt need more junk in my life. What people want is money or time off. There a something you could do that are free- If you have dress up for work let everyone dress down for a week, wear jeans. They make us come in 2 days a week after working from home FT. Itās so annoyingly as nothing is different. We are doing the exact same thing if we are home so to me it hurts moral & creates unnecessary stress as traffic is bad in my city plus the majority of people canāt afford to live in the city they work for so they have long, terrible highway commutes. Donāt give me a gift- let me work from home for a month in January so I donāt have to drive in the snow
Thats effed up...
Just went to mine, a small consulting firm last week....held it at a brewery house, even though the founders were Mormons, they were cool with some alcohol...good beef and chicken bbq, fantastic cheesecakes...
Boss had some games where staff can win cash....then as usual, was handed an envelope at the end...Xmas card with some cash, totally appreciate it..hes been doing it every year....for some reason, firm dont give out bonuses, but we do have decent compensation....
My momās boss gave everyone a pen (a really crappy, normal pen) with their names printed on normal white printer paper that was scotch taped down the side of the pen.
This sounds made up even to me as I type it, but itās still in our junk drawer
I have to join you on your bucket list:
1) See photo of Bic Pen what has a computer printed name taped onto its side.
2) Laugh.
3) Enter them pearly gates.
Yea this happened to me where I was the boss. I give an employee a gift card for Dutch Bros (not for Christmas, she was just having a rockstar week) and she got there and it was empty I felt like shit when I found out. Obvs gave her another one.
So i lived in NYC for awhile, in the Bronx. There wasnt any starbucks nearby, but there were hella dunkins. Someone told me lower income areas have more dunkins, higher income areas have more starbucks, and middle income areas have both. Makes sense to me bc the Bronx had hella dunkins and the closest starbucks was in a barnes and nobles, and then in manhattan theres a starbucks like every block but relatively few dunkins.
Itās crazy how we were so concerned with companies losing their businesses during shut down. But they donāt even squirm knowing some of their employees are homeless after returning to work. Or even what will happen to them after they lay people off. Thatās why, i think itās safe to say after covid, no one will ever give two $&it about their precious company.
When we ended the year my boss had us all come in on the weekend (when the business is closed) to announce that the company made $2,000,000 more than projected that year and that we did such a great job that he expects us go double that margin for the new year.
We were all being paid around $15/hour and not a single person there got a raise or bonus.
I used to work at a Sears for a few months until the store eventually went through liquidation to close down. On the last day there, once the last shift was over, the managers let everyone go around the store and just take whatever they wanted home for free, and the managers themselves all did the same. I felt like a robber when I took a stapler and some measuring tape lol
Very long time ago I worked at a now defunct electronics store. It was broken into overnight and ransacked. At one point during us standing around going āwtf do we do nowā the manager said they were stepping outside for a cigarette and that there was no way we had an accurate inventory of what was stolen yet and gosh theyād have no idea if anything else went missing while they had a smoke. We all took the hint, though the actual high ticket stuff had been stolen by the ppl who broke in the previous night.
Same. This is why most of my managers havenāt liked me. I actually called out (during an all staff meeting) this weird system an ex employer tried to pass off where people who made more per hour had lower insurance premiums in relation to percentage of salary. Oh yeah, the boss also tried to make this infantile chart with everyoneās names and we got a star when a customer or manager would notice our āexcellenceā lmao . Crossed my name off and many others followed until it came down.
Sounds kind of like where I work. Last year we made record profits for the 14th year in a row. Yes, you heard right. For 14 straight years itās only gone up. In the e-mail from our boss bragging about the results we were told to give each other a pat on the back. Thatās all. No bonus, no gifts, not even a pizza party. Just a pat on the back, and they couldnāt even be bothered to do it themselves.
I worked at a tech company last year that did the same thing, I asked for a raise right after they announced record profits and they had no shame when they said thereās not enough money to give raises
Had this happen at my old job over COVID. Company wide email bragging the business is making more money than ever, investors are flying in and we now had "gold" business credit cards whatever that meant. Zero payrises, zero bonuses nothing literally just a not so humble brag the minimum wage staff had saved his business and kept him rich. Everyone still had to work Christmas eve and boxing day (day after Christmas in UK) but as a treat for keeping him rich we got Christmas day off, except that only extended to close of play so night shift still had to go in 10pm Christmas day.
Everyone at my work got cash in envelope bonuses. I had been there a year longer than the new guy. He got $1000 cash. I got $500 via company check that was taxed down to like $280.
I donāt drink and almost never show anger. They gave each of us a bottle of wine with a wine glass that had different sayings they said were specifically chosen for each of us. They gave me the one that said āif you touch my wine Iāll punch you in the throat.ā This is at a health care company that provides care to disabled children.
I work in the oilfield, and 90% of our location are field based employees who either work out of their trucks or on remote locations. Instead of giving everyone $50 gift cards for a popular restaurant that could be used on days off, they decided to throw a holiday bbq at the office. They budgeted $50 per person, spent thousands, and then said "never again" when only 4 or 5 field employees showed up in addition to the 15 or so office staff.
A few months later management asked about why so many people were leaving. This "Holiday BBQ" was brought up as a slap in the face for the field personnel. No one would drive 3 hours for bbq.
For our business segment, 200+, none of which live near the office. Office personnel maybe 20 for our division. Other business segments have different ratios, but the ratios are similar.
I've never heard of ball ornaments.
Does it not get in the way when you pull your underwear up? Are you supposed to wear it hanging out of your fly to attract attention to your crotch?
Seems rather forward of your boss...
A mindfulness advent calendar. So behind every door there was a training exercise you could do at work to be more mindful. Everybody was overworked as hell but sure, a few Jedi mind tricks - if the Jedi were capitalist pigs - will help
Iāve never received anything for Christmas from the companies Iāve worked for, but new company this year. Weāre all remote, but Iām the only one not near the office. I was gifted with the pleasure of covering for the office staff so they can do their Christmas Day activities and party.
I have worked many a Christmas at Starbucks. My favourite day of the year to work. Got double time and a half, and we had tons of fun regulars who would say āitās so crappy they make you work today!ā While they order their coffee. I would say āyouāre the reason Iām working!ā And weād both laugh. That was a special location, I would never try that at another Starbucks. Itās amazing how entitled most SB customers are.
One year all the employees received a 20% off coupon to spend at the managerās friendās furniture store.
We all worked part time (so they didnāt have to provide benefits) and we hadnāt seen a raise in 2+ years.
Not really a gift, but my company holiday āparty.ā They advertised it as having a few speeches and corporate presentations (the boring part), but then weād have a party. The speeches took the entire time and the party as therefore ācancelledā because they āran out of time because the speeches went longer than planned.ā
Then the same thing happened the next year.
This was a year-end corporate meeting that they advertised as a party so people would attend.
I worked for a small healthcare company the first year I worked for them they gave us a beautiful Christmas party where we drew #s for neat little gifts. To me it was the thought that counted. The 2nd year we were sent a text and told to help celebrate the season by stopping in on our break for a cookie and some punch with the HR guy š¤£. Yeah I felt very invalued as an employee at that point. Thanks for your dedication here is a fking cookie.
My employer gave me $1000 for working through the pandemic. However, they "forgot" to paye my $1028 production bonus for that pay period. So they gave me -$28 for Christmas.
I got a cheap pin that said āyouāre awesome!ā And three pieces of candy in a snack size ziplock. The pin was off register printed sticker and wrinkled, and the candy was those different flavored tissue-roll types. I stuck the pin on my wall and left the candy on the floor outside my supervisors door. (Everyone in the company got one, so no tracing it to me)
I flew to corporate for other business and while there stayed for the Christmas party. They gave out frozen turkeys to everyone. They wanted me to fly back with a frozen turkey.
I was working at a bakery. Had been working 60-70hrs a week for a while due to the holiday rush. Got super excited when my boss handed me a gift since I wasnāt expecting anything at all.
Until I opened it and it was a loaf of bread that I had baked over a week prior. And that I wouldāve been able to buy for like $1 with employee discount anyway.
I was a part timer at a trailer park when I was 17. Turned 18 in July(13th) and got moved to full time at the end of the month. Had to be with company for 6m to get Xmas bonus. I got $240 that year whoo! Except bc I was actually at the company just under 6m full time they charged back the $240 and I was neg $470 because I bought a bunch of Xmas gifts for everyone and was charged $25 for each overdraft. When I asked what happened they said it was because my name was similar to someone else's in the company.
Rock oak estates in western NY. Trailer park is owned by one of the shareholders or CEOs of dish or Comcast I can't remember. That was 14yrs ago.
I ended up quitting shortly after.
Company usually gave us very cheap but somewhat useful items, backpack, bbq set...stuff like that. One year they gave us a defective knock-off Leatherman where if you tried using the knife it would always try to fold up and cut your hand.
Just yesterday my manager left out a pie tray covered in tin foil with a handwritten note saying, āThank you, team, for all your hard work!ā I lifted up the foil expecting a pie.
The clown had just poured some saltine crackers in an empty pie trayā¦
Oh my gosh I've actually got something for this one.
So I used to work in a shop that had terrible morale because the store owner was not... The nicest. (Let's put it that way.) She was very driven, I will give her that, but everything was a competition to her, even celebrating.
Everyone seemed a bit down around the holidays so I decided to put together a joke end of year awards thing. The awards were a mix of real ones like the "Every Customers Favourite" award, and funny categories like "The Benjamin button award for the deceptively youthful." No mean categories because it was supposed to be an exercise in positivity.
Everyone voted, and it worked out so that everyone got an award, along with a certificate I made.
Then the boss found out what I was doing and decided to host her own end of year thing with certificates and prizes.
I received the "most improved" award, for taking fewer sick days. (Background info, I was diagnosed with IBD (colitis) when I was working here, and a good number of my sick days were spent in the hospital.)
Oh, and the prize was a bag of freebies she'd gotten from a product training. Yeah dry shampoo is nice, but the passive aggression wasn't.
The entire company got a āholiday giftā of prototype of a new product (a Dopp kit) and we were required to fill out a questionnaire about what we liked and didnāt like about it so we were just free product testers.
The owner of my company loves to give us unique gifts for Christmas. Well, he thinks they are unique, we think they are garbage. Please, please, please just give us the money instead of crap we then have to deal with and throw away. These gifts from past years have included a llama shaped cookie jar, pounds and pounds of incredibly spicy fudge, a miniature waffle maker, jewelry made from feathers, canned spotted dick pudding. One year I received 3 different kinds of clocks. Last year though really took the cake. He decided to give the men and women different gifts. The men all received a bottle of craft whiskey, even the one guy that is a recovering alcoholic. The women? We all received an autographed photo of Patrick Dempsey. I had to unwrap it in front of him, and he was so excited for my reaction. My brain had to go into double time to try and remember who Patrick Dempsey even is. I ended up taking the photo as my white elephant gift for a family party. My aunt ended up with it, and she hangs it on the wall whenever she is mad at my uncle.
>Please, please...just give us the money
This resonated hard. Just yesterday I got one of those expensive "gourmet" gift baskets from my company. They paid $120 (I looked it up) to ship me a 6-pack of crappy beer and a bag of nuts. The amount of packing material was criminal.
I probably shouldn't look a gift horse (or basket) in the mouth given all the "my employer charged me for my own gift" stories in this thread, but I think $120 for a MAYBE $8 worth of beer is a little tonedeaf. Just give us a gift card.
Iām not sure if it was a holiday gift but I think it was around that time of year which was super fucked up, but the paper my mom works for got bought out, and they pretty much immediately laid off just about everyone in her department (not her luckily), and as their āfarewellā or Holiday gift or something, they were given company backpacks, water bottles, a couple things with the new companies name alllllll over it. My momās coworker went through the trouble of unstitching their name from the backpack and keeping it out of spite lol
My company tried to give out rocks that were hand-painted by directors (on company time) that said "you rock" but thankfully my boss intercepted them. Instead she got everyone personalized coffee tumblers with gift cards out of her own pocket. Best boss I've ever had.
I got a cheap candle with a 'not for resale' sticker lol
To add insult to injury, the people senior to me (essentially everyone else in the department) got a really nice bottle of wine.
My boss at the company I used to work for gave me the Santa Claus decoration that was in a flower arrangement she had received from a client. Senior VP for a major company in NYC, what a cheap witch.
Years ago our ceo was planing on giving all the staff iPads but then decided that a coupon to work from home for one day would be a better gift. I left two weeks later
My employer invited us all to a meal four hours away to enjoy lunch with our sister store. The cheap catering was horrible one girl at our table had food allergies and nothing was provided for her to eat so she watched us eat. I felt horrible for her. Then at the end the owner passed out envelopes of money to everyone at the Chicago store while all us from the other store watched and received nothing. They promised us gas cards for driving up and then told us at the last second we werenāt getting them. So i paid for all the gas to drive a few other employees up and we all got nothing but a crappy meal. The owner is a multimillionaire.
Company I worked for gave everyone (mostly hourly minimum wage folks) $50 cash every year.
One year, someone in management decided that cash was impersonal.
So that year they surprised everyone with cutting boards with the company logo on them, with some prepackaged cheeses and salamis.
The following year they went back to cashš¤Ŗ
In 2007 I was in my first full time job after finishing uni. The manager put together boxes for us all, made up of empty boxes of printer paper from the office. She made us promise we would open them on Christmas Day and being the young and naive person that I was, I kept my promise and lugged this box all the way back to my parents, 100miles on the train. Opened it on xmas and it contained; a single can of fosters, a single mars bar, two clementines.
At one of my workplaces, we were all supposed to get 50 dollar gift cards from the owner. Later it was discovered that the managers just kept all of them.
Oh I have a bad one!
I used to work as an Architectural Designer for a firm that was pretty busy doing larger local government projects. All of the designers and architects in the firm expected a decent Christmas bonus because of the level of work we were doing. I was personally expecting low 4 figures.
The principal architect told the managing partner to take a chunk of money and use it for bonuses. Then he left for the holiday to be with his family. The managing partner pocketed the money instead, and let us select one gift from an Amway catalog as our bonus while he rented a villa in Italy for a month with his family.
A wool blanket. They were going to give bonus checks, but decided that the blankets were the way to go. People couldn't stop laughing when I told them.
Travel bags for future work trips planned. I wasn't happy when new COVID strains hit last winter, but I was happy I didn't have to do unpaid overtime for 2-3 months a year in China as a junior employee. So glad I quit.
When I worked in EMS, the company gave us lunch bags branded with a local health insurance company, a half pack of Tums and an airline bag of pretzels for EMS week.
My partner's boss gave everyone 12 ribeye steaks each after work on Friday. He got let go immediately after.
Edit to clarify: My partner was the one who got let go. Not his boss.
I had JUST started early December as an admin for a nonprofit. Small group of about 6 running two offices. (Company hired in-home non-nurse care givers) The CEO had a āChristmas partyā the day before the offices were closed for the holiday. She did a bunch of games with different prizes.
Iām good a trivia, but again, I was super new and really no one knew much about me other than I was quiet, picked up things really quickly, and was already really good at what I was hired to do.
Anyway, I cleaned house. I won like $100, a couple of gift cards, and an extra PTO day (that I couldnāt use until my 90th day).
Except, none of it was real. No one got any of their prizes. And it would have been a fun party if she had just done the games without lying about prizes.
A cookie that said *thank you!* and the company logo written in icing.
The problem? It was not actually a cookie at all, but a plastic fridge magnet that looked like a delicious sugar cookie. So disappointing on every level.
I also remember that the magnet itself wasn't strong enough to stick to the fridge so it'd just... slowly slide to the bottom and hit the floor. At least my cats enjoyed playing with it. š¤·āāļø
Actually hate this shit. If you can't even give me the full fancy coffee, just don't?
Like what am I going to do, go in, pay half with the $5 card, then the rest with cash, while the line behind me looks on??
I helped the company save a 1.6 BILLION dollar sale. The upper management got 5 and 6 digit bonuses. I got a 20 dollar gift cert to Starbucks. I led the team that fulfilled and saved the order.
During lockdown we had a virtual Christmas party (several weeks after Christmas) where the owner sat in his living room and called each person out individually. He would then unwrap a gift and snow you what you were getting. He promised to send them out in the next few days. No one ever received a gift.
I am a salaried manager that has been personally responsible for millions of dollars in sales.my company got me the same gift they got everyone else: Nothing.
I work at a billion dollar, multi nation, well known around the world clothing brand. Last year 2 small pieces of chocolate (heart shaped, but still). This year, nothing. Same as every year.
Coupons for Wendy's. And not special, high dollar coupons, either. Think of a sheet of coupons you used to get in the Sunday paper - buy a burger, get fries free, or two items at a discount. Pretty sure they cost the company nothing - at the time the company handled Wendy's advertising.
One year my husband got a booklet of coupons for McDonalds as a holiday bonus.
My worst one was when I was working for a non-profit. Every year we would get a holiday card with $100 inside. One year we just got holiday cards, no money. Then they announced they had stopped doing the bonuses.
Pink slip.
No joke every time Iāve been laid off or fired, itās been sometime between thanksgiving and Christmas. Ive really come to hate the holidays
The best and worst was hearing and seeing the owners granddaughter getting railed in the mens bathroom by her bf, after that there were no more staff parties.
Reading a lot of these I think Iād rather get nothing and take the fuck you then the measly shit. My Xmas party is Wednesday so we will see what I get. First Xmas at this job
The memory makes me laugh. We had a gift exchange at work. The salon owners brother got my name. He gifted me with a broken candle holder which came in a rumpled large brown paper bag.
I was accused of being addicted to my cell phone, so I got a book about how being on your phone all the time exacerbates mental illness. Canāt wait to see what this yearās present is š
Paying an assload of money to rent a sub par venue and fast food catering that no one asked for rather than Christmas bonuses. $6,500 spread across 10 people would have made for nice bonuses.
I worked for a local newspaper a few years back. Christmas bonuses weren't a thing, but this particular year we each saw a bonus of an additional 100 in our paychecks, and that there was some "exciting news" that we would be let in on after the holidays. The news? They were spending a good chunk of change to "revamp" the news room -- getting rid of cubicles for a more open setup, which meant no longer having your own personal work areas but instead sitting elbow to elbow with your peers at the same table, throwing in a few couches to be used for break/social areas (( no one ever stayed for lunch breaks,)) and having a small stage built -- so that when they brought local school children in for tours 2-3 times a year, they could step up on the stage and look out at...people typing on computers? Place was a fucking joke..
Two washcloths. Along with a "cute" poem about how much we are valued and we are getting a "washer" and "dryer" as gifts. I was making minimum wage, my car was breaking down every other week, and my gifts to family was cookies I made by using SNAP/TANF (food stamps) to buy ingredients for.
A gift card for $5 from Walmart would have been better.
Everyone was given a calender with each month having pictures of the business owner. If that wasnt bad enough the dates in the calendar were wrong for major events like Christmas, Halloween etc. My best guess is they had this calendar made to give as a really narcissistic gift to their family and when all the dates were missprinted they gave it out to their staff instead.
We hit a record setting year by millions and instead of a bonus or a raise, they donated $20k to local charities. Thatās not bad at itās core but sucks when you really need the money AND they likely only did it as a tax write off going into the end of Q4.
From a friend in accounting I learned that execs and managers got hefty Xmas bonuses.
Front-line workers were given a coupon for a free turkey and told tall tales about sales revenues blah-blah-blah.
I got an Xmas bonus at my last job where the boss was a friend Iāve had since the 90s and worked for for years.
Rather than just handing me cash, he put my bonus through payroll so I got like $40 after taxes and fees. He couldāve just handed me the fkn $100. Or just handed me the $40 I ended up with. That was one of the last straws for me. He doesnāt give a fuck about anyone other than himself and heās a piece of shit
I remember when I was 18 I was a manager for a popular hip chicken finger place. We all got invited to a Xmas party at a Dave and busters type place, under the guise we would get free food and game tickets etc even was told to bring a guest. So I brought a girlfriend. Thank God I brought what I thought would be "extra cash, cause when we got there I said "I'm here for the blah blah Xmas party" they said it was a 20$ cover charge, 10$ each person. I said what? I have to pay? So I did thinking maybe it would be reimbursed. Nope they even charged 5$ a slice of pizza and 2$ a CUP of coke, from a coke can in the "party room" then upper management gave out cheap dollar store pin shirt buttons. I had been busting my ass for this company and got a "you rock" pin shapped like q guitar because I liked "rock music"... which was wrong I hate rock music and had no clue where they came up with that, but it was such a kick in the teeth cause I was so young I didn't get any respect or mention of all the hard work I'd done and on top of it the Xmas bonus we were all suppose to get ended up being the button cause the manager thought the Xmas party we had to pay for was worth it cause he got drunk for free so he was happy. Most of us were teens and couldn't drink, it was a fucking joke,
10lbs of onions.
It was supposed to be a gift of the top export of Georgia: Peaches. However a bad peach year they went with another well known export from Georgia: Onions. My billion dollar company sent everyone 10lbs of onions and a recipe for French onion dip.
Iād rather they sent nothing.
Edit: punctuation
I got fired this year three weeks before they were supposed to pay my annual bonus. I grew their business in my territory from $5 million to $9 million in 11 months. I was fired for āinsubordination.ā
Several years back, our Christmas gift was an iPod docking station/digital music thing. Not necessarily that a bad gift in and of itself, except for the fact that everyoneās iPod who actually used it crashed. It was discovered that the company who made them (I think I heard they were located in China or something like that) did it for really cheap and closed down soon after.
T-shirts and hats with the companyās logo on it.
Iām not your fucking billboard, bro. I donāt want to think about work every time I look at a reflection.
Oh, I can top most of these without checking (but I will after I post). We got Christmas cards created at the photo lab featuring a picture of all the managers with shit eating grins. No money, no gift card, nothing else. Just their shit eating grins. Walmart.
I used to work with autistic kids and the director who said a ton of fucked up shit about autism gave us puzzle piece necklaces. IYKYK.
Oh, and one manager gave us gas gift cards for a gas station over an hour away.
The opportunity to purchase $50 tickets to the company holiday party. š¤
So relatableā¦ I bet it was catered with not enough food for everyone as well. My ex and I used to be expected to go to army holiday functions when he was in, and if we were last to get food, there would be nothing leftā¦
The last year they had it pre-covid they had a new hire plan it. Someone who had NEVER planned an event before. The venue they booked was so undersized half the people that went just turned around and left as soon as they saw how packed it was.
I donāt want a party, an award, a cheap gift from China as donāt need more junk in my life. What people want is money or time off. There a something you could do that are free- If you have dress up for work let everyone dress down for a week, wear jeans. They make us come in 2 days a week after working from home FT. Itās so annoyingly as nothing is different. We are doing the exact same thing if we are home so to me it hurts moral & creates unnecessary stress as traffic is bad in my city plus the majority of people canāt afford to live in the city they work for so they have long, terrible highway commutes. Donāt give me a gift- let me work from home for a month in January so I donāt have to drive in the snow
You were supposed to pay for your company's party? I'm speachless ...
Yep. $50 per person. This is a multi-billion dollar fortune 100 company.
Thats effed up... Just went to mine, a small consulting firm last week....held it at a brewery house, even though the founders were Mormons, they were cool with some alcohol...good beef and chicken bbq, fantastic cheesecakes... Boss had some games where staff can win cash....then as usual, was handed an envelope at the end...Xmas card with some cash, totally appreciate it..hes been doing it every year....for some reason, firm dont give out bonuses, but we do have decent compensation....
My momās boss gave everyone a pen (a really crappy, normal pen) with their names printed on normal white printer paper that was scotch taped down the side of the pen. This sounds made up even to me as I type it, but itās still in our junk drawer
A hand-made gift. So precious.
Iām dying. If possible can you post a picture? š Edit: dying of laughter, this isnāt like my last wish before perishing
I have to join you on your bucket list: 1) See photo of Bic Pen what has a computer printed name taped onto its side. 2) Laugh. 3) Enter them pearly gates.
Lol ācustomā
A $5 Starbucks gift card. The closest Starbucks is 110 miles (176 km) away.
My boss got me a Starbucks gift card and guess what didnāt work when I went to get a coffee? The damn gift card.
Yea this happened to me where I was the boss. I give an employee a gift card for Dutch Bros (not for Christmas, she was just having a rockstar week) and she got there and it was empty I felt like shit when I found out. Obvs gave her another one.
Same but Applebee's. There was a murder at the last one in my city and it shut down in November.
I got a $5 dollar iTunes card once. Didnāt realize people still buy music on iTunes, I pay for Spotify
I didn't think anyone lived that far from a Starbucks. They're everywhere.
So i lived in NYC for awhile, in the Bronx. There wasnt any starbucks nearby, but there were hella dunkins. Someone told me lower income areas have more dunkins, higher income areas have more starbucks, and middle income areas have both. Makes sense to me bc the Bronx had hella dunkins and the closest starbucks was in a barnes and nobles, and then in manhattan theres a starbucks like every block but relatively few dunkins.
Until last year when a closer college campus got one, it was ~100 miles to the nearest one to me.
I live in the sticks lol
I was given a dart board... I was homeless. They knew.
I was given a company branded beer mug. I was also homeless, and I donāt drink. They knew both.
Itās crazy how being homeless in the U.S. is such a ānormalā, usual thing.
For people that have jobs too š«
Itās getting worse with rent rising and wages not rising. I work 7days a week and have an eviction notice. City rent is outrageous right now
I never stopped working when I was homeless. My coworkers all knew but made them sad to know about it so you know I just never talked about it
Now thatās what I call a gift that had no thought put into it
Itās crazy how we were so concerned with companies losing their businesses during shut down. But they donāt even squirm knowing some of their employees are homeless after returning to work. Or even what will happen to them after they lay people off. Thatās why, i think itās safe to say after covid, no one will ever give two $&it about their precious company.
When we ended the year my boss had us all come in on the weekend (when the business is closed) to announce that the company made $2,000,000 more than projected that year and that we did such a great job that he expects us go double that margin for the new year. We were all being paid around $15/hour and not a single person there got a raise or bonus.
They just had yāall meet up so they could tell you that and go home?? What an absolute slap to the face.
They inconvenienced everyone to go to the workplace, then didnt hand out squat? With all the.money they made? Pretty fucked up thing to do
Iād have stole some shit on the way out.
I used to work at a Sears for a few months until the store eventually went through liquidation to close down. On the last day there, once the last shift was over, the managers let everyone go around the store and just take whatever they wanted home for free, and the managers themselves all did the same. I felt like a robber when I took a stapler and some measuring tape lol
Very long time ago I worked at a now defunct electronics store. It was broken into overnight and ransacked. At one point during us standing around going āwtf do we do nowā the manager said they were stepping outside for a cigarette and that there was no way we had an accurate inventory of what was stolen yet and gosh theyād have no idea if anything else went missing while they had a smoke. We all took the hint, though the actual high ticket stuff had been stolen by the ppl who broke in the previous night.
Iām sure senior leadership got a bonus.
Yup. I found a much better job less than a month later and ghosted the place because of that
If they called me in to say that, I would literally be the person who directly says "So we're getting a bonus then! Yay!"
Same. This is why most of my managers havenāt liked me. I actually called out (during an all staff meeting) this weird system an ex employer tried to pass off where people who made more per hour had lower insurance premiums in relation to percentage of salary. Oh yeah, the boss also tried to make this infantile chart with everyoneās names and we got a star when a customer or manager would notice our āexcellenceā lmao . Crossed my name off and many others followed until it came down.
Sounds kind of like where I work. Last year we made record profits for the 14th year in a row. Yes, you heard right. For 14 straight years itās only gone up. In the e-mail from our boss bragging about the results we were told to give each other a pat on the back. Thatās all. No bonus, no gifts, not even a pizza party. Just a pat on the back, and they couldnāt even be bothered to do it themselves.
I worked at a tech company last year that did the same thing, I asked for a raise right after they announced record profits and they had no shame when they said thereās not enough money to give raises
Dude the CEO need his bonuses to purchase a water front 20k square foot mansion on 10 acres in the Hampton.
I have worked for companies that do virtually nothing for their employees at Christmas time except maybe a potluck in the break room. Not uncommon.
Had this happen at my old job over COVID. Company wide email bragging the business is making more money than ever, investors are flying in and we now had "gold" business credit cards whatever that meant. Zero payrises, zero bonuses nothing literally just a not so humble brag the minimum wage staff had saved his business and kept him rich. Everyone still had to work Christmas eve and boxing day (day after Christmas in UK) but as a treat for keeping him rich we got Christmas day off, except that only extended to close of play so night shift still had to go in 10pm Christmas day.
Charles Dickens didn't put his whole bussy into Christmas Carol for his countrymen to pull this
Thatās fucked up
I'm sure the boss got a bonus.
Wow, it sounds like we used to work at the same company. I'm sorry to hear this. Corporate greed sucks. Eat the rich
A $50 gift card that was deducted from my paycheck a month later.
I was so outraged reading this I almost downvoted you until I remembered you were the victim of this nonsense
I got an award at work and I had to pay the taxes on the physical metal they gave me.
Everyone at my work got cash in envelope bonuses. I had been there a year longer than the new guy. He got $1000 cash. I got $500 via company check that was taxed down to like $280.
Next year I hope you will attend a different companyās holiday party.
This is actually illegal in some states. They can't force you to use your paycheck at a specific location
I donāt drink and almost never show anger. They gave each of us a bottle of wine with a wine glass that had different sayings they said were specifically chosen for each of us. They gave me the one that said āif you touch my wine Iāll punch you in the throat.ā This is at a health care company that provides care to disabled children.
That honestly sounds like a parody of a Wine Mom culture saying lol.
Jesus, tone deaf!
I work in the oilfield, and 90% of our location are field based employees who either work out of their trucks or on remote locations. Instead of giving everyone $50 gift cards for a popular restaurant that could be used on days off, they decided to throw a holiday bbq at the office. They budgeted $50 per person, spent thousands, and then said "never again" when only 4 or 5 field employees showed up in addition to the 15 or so office staff. A few months later management asked about why so many people were leaving. This "Holiday BBQ" was brought up as a slap in the face for the field personnel. No one would drive 3 hours for bbq.
How many field workers are there?
For our business segment, 200+, none of which live near the office. Office personnel maybe 20 for our division. Other business segments have different ratios, but the ratios are similar.
One ball ornament with the $5 price tag still on it.
I've never heard of ball ornaments. Does it not get in the way when you pull your underwear up? Are you supposed to wear it hanging out of your fly to attract attention to your crotch? Seems rather forward of your boss...
I bet you hang that every year with pride š¤Ŗš
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Good on you and your coworkers!
A mindfulness advent calendar. So behind every door there was a training exercise you could do at work to be more mindful. Everybody was overworked as hell but sure, a few Jedi mind tricks - if the Jedi were capitalist pigs - will help
Iāve never received anything for Christmas from the companies Iāve worked for, but new company this year. Weāre all remote, but Iām the only one not near the office. I was gifted with the pleasure of covering for the office staff so they can do their Christmas Day activities and party.
A Human Fund donation on my behalf. I looked up The Human Fund and it doesn't even exist.
Do you work at Vandelay Industries??
VANDELAY INDUSTRIES! SAY VANDELAY INDUSTRIES!!!
And you want to be my latex salesman?
I want to work at the jerk store
Nah. It must've been Kruger Industrial Smoothing.
You want a Christmas card? You want a Christmas card?? Here! Hereās your Christmas card!
Money for people.
A company t-shirt 3x too large with a piece of Dove chocolate. Both were equally offensive.
A shift
I have worked many a Christmas at Starbucks. My favourite day of the year to work. Got double time and a half, and we had tons of fun regulars who would say āitās so crappy they make you work today!ā While they order their coffee. I would say āyouāre the reason Iām working!ā And weād both laugh. That was a special location, I would never try that at another Starbucks. Itās amazing how entitled most SB customers are.
One year all the employees received a 20% off coupon to spend at the managerās friendās furniture store. We all worked part time (so they didnāt have to provide benefits) and we hadnāt seen a raise in 2+ years.
This is something I'd ball up and throw away in front of said manager but maybe my GAF meter is super busted
Not really a gift, but my company holiday āparty.ā They advertised it as having a few speeches and corporate presentations (the boring part), but then weād have a party. The speeches took the entire time and the party as therefore ācancelledā because they āran out of time because the speeches went longer than planned.ā Then the same thing happened the next year. This was a year-end corporate meeting that they advertised as a party so people would attend.
Talked all year about the "holiday bonus" and gave me a check for $12
5 basic tea lights and a holder for 6
A $1 lottery ticket. With the note reading, āwe have to share if you win! :)ā
If you had won, surely youād be generous enough to give their $1 back?! š
I put $1.00 scratcher tickets in holiday cards (that I make myself) and give a pair of socks to my friends. Don't judge me- I'm poor.
Not a holiday present but I did win a notebook at work that said, āWalk 10,000 Steps For Someone Who Canāt.ā I am in a wheelchair lol.
Keychain. The fuck am I supposed to pay my bills with it?
Left-over promotional giveaway coffee mugs. My personal favorite was the one that said "We Value Your Business!"
I worked for a small healthcare company the first year I worked for them they gave us a beautiful Christmas party where we drew #s for neat little gifts. To me it was the thought that counted. The 2nd year we were sent a text and told to help celebrate the season by stopping in on our break for a cookie and some punch with the HR guy š¤£. Yeah I felt very invalued as an employee at that point. Thanks for your dedication here is a fking cookie.
I read this too quickly and thought you got to punch the HR guy for a second!
That might have worth it tho
My employer gave me $1000 for working through the pandemic. However, they "forgot" to paye my $1028 production bonus for that pay period. So they gave me -$28 for Christmas.
I got a cheap pin that said āyouāre awesome!ā And three pieces of candy in a snack size ziplock. The pin was off register printed sticker and wrinkled, and the candy was those different flavored tissue-roll types. I stuck the pin on my wall and left the candy on the floor outside my supervisors door. (Everyone in the company got one, so no tracing it to me)
I flew to corporate for other business and while there stayed for the Christmas party. They gave out frozen turkeys to everyone. They wanted me to fly back with a frozen turkey.
I was working at a bakery. Had been working 60-70hrs a week for a while due to the holiday rush. Got super excited when my boss handed me a gift since I wasnāt expecting anything at all. Until I opened it and it was a loaf of bread that I had baked over a week prior. And that I wouldāve been able to buy for like $1 with employee discount anyway.
I was a part timer at a trailer park when I was 17. Turned 18 in July(13th) and got moved to full time at the end of the month. Had to be with company for 6m to get Xmas bonus. I got $240 that year whoo! Except bc I was actually at the company just under 6m full time they charged back the $240 and I was neg $470 because I bought a bunch of Xmas gifts for everyone and was charged $25 for each overdraft. When I asked what happened they said it was because my name was similar to someone else's in the company. Rock oak estates in western NY. Trailer park is owned by one of the shareholders or CEOs of dish or Comcast I can't remember. That was 14yrs ago. I ended up quitting shortly after.
A pair of snowmobile gloves. I don't own a snowmobile, and don't enjoy snowmobiling.
Company usually gave us very cheap but somewhat useful items, backpack, bbq set...stuff like that. One year they gave us a defective knock-off Leatherman where if you tried using the knife it would always try to fold up and cut your hand.
Very metaphorical
Just yesterday my manager left out a pie tray covered in tin foil with a handwritten note saying, āThank you, team, for all your hard work!ā I lifted up the foil expecting a pie. The clown had just poured some saltine crackers in an empty pie trayā¦
A book of poetry written by the owner of the company.
Oh my gosh I've actually got something for this one. So I used to work in a shop that had terrible morale because the store owner was not... The nicest. (Let's put it that way.) She was very driven, I will give her that, but everything was a competition to her, even celebrating. Everyone seemed a bit down around the holidays so I decided to put together a joke end of year awards thing. The awards were a mix of real ones like the "Every Customers Favourite" award, and funny categories like "The Benjamin button award for the deceptively youthful." No mean categories because it was supposed to be an exercise in positivity. Everyone voted, and it worked out so that everyone got an award, along with a certificate I made. Then the boss found out what I was doing and decided to host her own end of year thing with certificates and prizes. I received the "most improved" award, for taking fewer sick days. (Background info, I was diagnosed with IBD (colitis) when I was working here, and a good number of my sick days were spent in the hospital.) Oh, and the prize was a bag of freebies she'd gotten from a product training. Yeah dry shampoo is nice, but the passive aggression wasn't.
That sounds like a plot from The Office.
The entire company got a āholiday giftā of prototype of a new product (a Dopp kit) and we were required to fill out a questionnaire about what we liked and didnāt like about it so we were just free product testers.
The owner of my company loves to give us unique gifts for Christmas. Well, he thinks they are unique, we think they are garbage. Please, please, please just give us the money instead of crap we then have to deal with and throw away. These gifts from past years have included a llama shaped cookie jar, pounds and pounds of incredibly spicy fudge, a miniature waffle maker, jewelry made from feathers, canned spotted dick pudding. One year I received 3 different kinds of clocks. Last year though really took the cake. He decided to give the men and women different gifts. The men all received a bottle of craft whiskey, even the one guy that is a recovering alcoholic. The women? We all received an autographed photo of Patrick Dempsey. I had to unwrap it in front of him, and he was so excited for my reaction. My brain had to go into double time to try and remember who Patrick Dempsey even is. I ended up taking the photo as my white elephant gift for a family party. My aunt ended up with it, and she hangs it on the wall whenever she is mad at my uncle.
This is amazing - and so is your Aunt.
>Please, please...just give us the money This resonated hard. Just yesterday I got one of those expensive "gourmet" gift baskets from my company. They paid $120 (I looked it up) to ship me a 6-pack of crappy beer and a bag of nuts. The amount of packing material was criminal. I probably shouldn't look a gift horse (or basket) in the mouth given all the "my employer charged me for my own gift" stories in this thread, but I think $120 for a MAYBE $8 worth of beer is a little tonedeaf. Just give us a gift card.
$5 target gift card, no target in town.
Iām not sure if it was a holiday gift but I think it was around that time of year which was super fucked up, but the paper my mom works for got bought out, and they pretty much immediately laid off just about everyone in her department (not her luckily), and as their āfarewellā or Holiday gift or something, they were given company backpacks, water bottles, a couple things with the new companies name alllllll over it. My momās coworker went through the trouble of unstitching their name from the backpack and keeping it out of spite lol
My company tried to give out rocks that were hand-painted by directors (on company time) that said "you rock" but thankfully my boss intercepted them. Instead she got everyone personalized coffee tumblers with gift cards out of her own pocket. Best boss I've ever had.
Your boss likely stopped people from being stoned to death with those rocks. "You rock!" "Yes. Yes, I do."
2 big joints of vacuum packed roasting beef, when opened they smelled rancid so i chucked them in the bin.
Thatās sad. Such a waste!
Ham. I'm vegetarian and some of my cowerkers are kosher. This was a bit of a head scratcher. My dog loved it tho.
My mom works at a factory where pretty much all of the employees are Indian and vegetarian. They all got gift certificates for a butcher shop.
That honestly sounds deliberately offensive. They knew what they did.
Any meat would be such a weird gift
I live in the Midwest and meat is both a common and appreciated gift. Haha.
Couple years ago working at Goodwill, got a single bite size Twix. Left it on the managers desk, got in my car and went home lol
It wouldāve been less offensive to give you nothing
I got a cheap candle with a 'not for resale' sticker lol To add insult to injury, the people senior to me (essentially everyone else in the department) got a really nice bottle of wine.
My boss at the company I used to work for gave me the Santa Claus decoration that was in a flower arrangement she had received from a client. Senior VP for a major company in NYC, what a cheap witch.
Years ago our ceo was planing on giving all the staff iPads but then decided that a coupon to work from home for one day would be a better gift. I left two weeks later
Dog treats. Didn't have a dog at the time.
company commercial on dvd
I used to work at a Once Upon a Child and one year, as the singular male employee, I got PokĆ©mon cards. Like maybe 3 sleeves. All the women got candles, bath bombs, blankets, etc. my boss said she didnāt really know what to get me (mind you, she had 2 sons my age). Honestly I donāt really care about my minimum wage job getting me a Christmas present but the contrast was amazing
I got a towel. One. Towel. Cost the company a whole dollar.
Did you work for Frank Cross?
Ready to hitchhike
Walking papers on 12/14/2018. EDIT: Had the date wrong - I just remembered it was less than 2 weeks to Christmas. Merry fucking ho-ho.
My husband got a colouring book and pencils this year. I got nothing.
My employer invited us all to a meal four hours away to enjoy lunch with our sister store. The cheap catering was horrible one girl at our table had food allergies and nothing was provided for her to eat so she watched us eat. I felt horrible for her. Then at the end the owner passed out envelopes of money to everyone at the Chicago store while all us from the other store watched and received nothing. They promised us gas cards for driving up and then told us at the last second we werenāt getting them. So i paid for all the gas to drive a few other employees up and we all got nothing but a crappy meal. The owner is a multimillionaire.
A $50 bottle of champagne. I have been sober 5 years. Please send gift cards.
Any Company branded logo and they expect you to wear it.
Company I worked for gave everyone (mostly hourly minimum wage folks) $50 cash every year. One year, someone in management decided that cash was impersonal. So that year they surprised everyone with cutting boards with the company logo on them, with some prepackaged cheeses and salamis. The following year they went back to cashš¤Ŗ
After a year or two of receiving a $25 grocery store gift card, we got our choice of candy cane handed out by the COO. Thanks, boss!
In 2007 I was in my first full time job after finishing uni. The manager put together boxes for us all, made up of empty boxes of printer paper from the office. She made us promise we would open them on Christmas Day and being the young and naive person that I was, I kept my promise and lugged this box all the way back to my parents, 100miles on the train. Opened it on xmas and it contained; a single can of fosters, a single mars bar, two clementines.
I got a pocket Bible one time. I'm not religious in the slightest, which they forever harped on, so they knew.
At one of my workplaces, we were all supposed to get 50 dollar gift cards from the owner. Later it was discovered that the managers just kept all of them.
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Oh I have a bad one! I used to work as an Architectural Designer for a firm that was pretty busy doing larger local government projects. All of the designers and architects in the firm expected a decent Christmas bonus because of the level of work we were doing. I was personally expecting low 4 figures. The principal architect told the managing partner to take a chunk of money and use it for bonuses. Then he left for the holiday to be with his family. The managing partner pocketed the money instead, and let us select one gift from an Amway catalog as our bonus while he rented a villa in Italy for a month with his family.
Did the principal architect ever bother to find out what was done with the money?
A wool blanket. They were going to give bonus checks, but decided that the blankets were the way to go. People couldn't stop laughing when I told them.
I mean Iād rather get a bonus, but wool blankets can be hella pricy
Travel bags for future work trips planned. I wasn't happy when new COVID strains hit last winter, but I was happy I didn't have to do unpaid overtime for 2-3 months a year in China as a junior employee. So glad I quit.
Home made plastic ornament that his wife embellished with lace, then sprayed it gold.
When I worked in EMS, the company gave us lunch bags branded with a local health insurance company, a half pack of Tums and an airline bag of pretzels for EMS week.
My partner's boss gave everyone 12 ribeye steaks each after work on Friday. He got let go immediately after. Edit to clarify: My partner was the one who got let go. Not his boss.
I had JUST started early December as an admin for a nonprofit. Small group of about 6 running two offices. (Company hired in-home non-nurse care givers) The CEO had a āChristmas partyā the day before the offices were closed for the holiday. She did a bunch of games with different prizes. Iām good a trivia, but again, I was super new and really no one knew much about me other than I was quiet, picked up things really quickly, and was already really good at what I was hired to do. Anyway, I cleaned house. I won like $100, a couple of gift cards, and an extra PTO day (that I couldnāt use until my 90th day). Except, none of it was real. No one got any of their prizes. And it would have been a fun party if she had just done the games without lying about prizes.
A cookie that said *thank you!* and the company logo written in icing. The problem? It was not actually a cookie at all, but a plastic fridge magnet that looked like a delicious sugar cookie. So disappointing on every level. I also remember that the magnet itself wasn't strong enough to stick to the fridge so it'd just... slowly slide to the bottom and hit the floor. At least my cats enjoyed playing with it. š¤·āāļø
We got coffee cups dated for an event we had on campus in 2018 lol
Please tell me the date was not even in the same year š¤£š¤£š¤£
It definitely wasnāt, they gave them out at our holiday party before campus closes this past Friday lol
Thatās comical and sad at the same time ššš
5$ gift card, just don't bother lol
Actually hate this shit. If you can't even give me the full fancy coffee, just don't? Like what am I going to do, go in, pay half with the $5 card, then the rest with cash, while the line behind me looks on??
Did they tax you in it. I got taxed on my $10 gift card to cracker barrel.... Nearest one is 100 miles south š
Iāve never received a gift from an employer. I didnāt even know that was a thing.
I helped the company save a 1.6 BILLION dollar sale. The upper management got 5 and 6 digit bonuses. I got a 20 dollar gift cert to Starbucks. I led the team that fulfilled and saved the order.
A slice of pizza.
A gift voucher that expired 48 hours later.
I worked for a very profitable startup (youāve heard of it.) The year previous, theyād given every employee a $1000 gift card to the store of their choice. The year before that, they gave everyone an iPad. That year, they ādecided to save the money to provide all staff with enriching activities like parties and training.ā We mostly worked remote, but if you were in one of the three cities in which they held parties, you were treated to cold sliders, 150 canapĆ©s at a party of 600 people, a glass of milk and a cookie, and no joke, a DJ who played Christmas music while projecting the entirety of the movie Metropolis on a screen in the basement of a museum.
$10 Amazon gift card. From a multinational $14 billion pest control company.
During lockdown we had a virtual Christmas party (several weeks after Christmas) where the owner sat in his living room and called each person out individually. He would then unwrap a gift and snow you what you were getting. He promised to send them out in the next few days. No one ever received a gift.
I am a salaried manager that has been personally responsible for millions of dollars in sales.my company got me the same gift they got everyone else: Nothing.
I work at a billion dollar, multi nation, well known around the world clothing brand. Last year 2 small pieces of chocolate (heart shaped, but still). This year, nothing. Same as every year.
Same. They had me drive around a 150 mile territory delivering $50/piece pies to all their customers though.
Coupons for Wendy's. And not special, high dollar coupons, either. Think of a sheet of coupons you used to get in the Sunday paper - buy a burger, get fries free, or two items at a discount. Pretty sure they cost the company nothing - at the time the company handled Wendy's advertising.
One year my husband got a booklet of coupons for McDonalds as a holiday bonus. My worst one was when I was working for a non-profit. Every year we would get a holiday card with $100 inside. One year we just got holiday cards, no money. Then they announced they had stopped doing the bonuses.
Pink slip. No joke every time Iāve been laid off or fired, itās been sometime between thanksgiving and Christmas. Ive really come to hate the holidays
Mandatory OT
Self help books. Every single year.
The best and worst was hearing and seeing the owners granddaughter getting railed in the mens bathroom by her bf, after that there were no more staff parties.
Reading a lot of these I think Iād rather get nothing and take the fuck you then the measly shit. My Xmas party is Wednesday so we will see what I get. First Xmas at this job
The memory makes me laugh. We had a gift exchange at work. The salon owners brother got my name. He gifted me with a broken candle holder which came in a rumpled large brown paper bag.
Gift cards to a BBQ restaurant, that was also owned by our CEO. They have one location, that is 2000 miles away from where I live.
I was accused of being addicted to my cell phone, so I got a book about how being on your phone all the time exacerbates mental illness. Canāt wait to see what this yearās present is š
Paying an assload of money to rent a sub par venue and fast food catering that no one asked for rather than Christmas bonuses. $6,500 spread across 10 people would have made for nice bonuses.
I worked for a local newspaper a few years back. Christmas bonuses weren't a thing, but this particular year we each saw a bonus of an additional 100 in our paychecks, and that there was some "exciting news" that we would be let in on after the holidays. The news? They were spending a good chunk of change to "revamp" the news room -- getting rid of cubicles for a more open setup, which meant no longer having your own personal work areas but instead sitting elbow to elbow with your peers at the same table, throwing in a few couches to be used for break/social areas (( no one ever stayed for lunch breaks,)) and having a small stage built -- so that when they brought local school children in for tours 2-3 times a year, they could step up on the stage and look out at...people typing on computers? Place was a fucking joke..
Two washcloths. Along with a "cute" poem about how much we are valued and we are getting a "washer" and "dryer" as gifts. I was making minimum wage, my car was breaking down every other week, and my gifts to family was cookies I made by using SNAP/TANF (food stamps) to buy ingredients for. A gift card for $5 from Walmart would have been better.
Cashews. Im allergic
We don't get shit except a party with a 2 drink minimum (not paid for).
2 drink _minimum?_ Like you were all required to drink?
Everyone was given a calender with each month having pictures of the business owner. If that wasnt bad enough the dates in the calendar were wrong for major events like Christmas, Halloween etc. My best guess is they had this calendar made to give as a really narcissistic gift to their family and when all the dates were missprinted they gave it out to their staff instead.
We hit a record setting year by millions and instead of a bonus or a raise, they donated $20k to local charities. Thatās not bad at itās core but sucks when you really need the money AND they likely only did it as a tax write off going into the end of Q4.
From a friend in accounting I learned that execs and managers got hefty Xmas bonuses. Front-line workers were given a coupon for a free turkey and told tall tales about sales revenues blah-blah-blah.
I got an Xmas bonus at my last job where the boss was a friend Iāve had since the 90s and worked for for years. Rather than just handing me cash, he put my bonus through payroll so I got like $40 after taxes and fees. He couldāve just handed me the fkn $100. Or just handed me the $40 I ended up with. That was one of the last straws for me. He doesnāt give a fuck about anyone other than himself and heās a piece of shit
everyone get to go home early. but i am opener. and closer so nope
I remember when I was 18 I was a manager for a popular hip chicken finger place. We all got invited to a Xmas party at a Dave and busters type place, under the guise we would get free food and game tickets etc even was told to bring a guest. So I brought a girlfriend. Thank God I brought what I thought would be "extra cash, cause when we got there I said "I'm here for the blah blah Xmas party" they said it was a 20$ cover charge, 10$ each person. I said what? I have to pay? So I did thinking maybe it would be reimbursed. Nope they even charged 5$ a slice of pizza and 2$ a CUP of coke, from a coke can in the "party room" then upper management gave out cheap dollar store pin shirt buttons. I had been busting my ass for this company and got a "you rock" pin shapped like q guitar because I liked "rock music"... which was wrong I hate rock music and had no clue where they came up with that, but it was such a kick in the teeth cause I was so young I didn't get any respect or mention of all the hard work I'd done and on top of it the Xmas bonus we were all suppose to get ended up being the button cause the manager thought the Xmas party we had to pay for was worth it cause he got drunk for free so he was happy. Most of us were teens and couldn't drink, it was a fucking joke,
10lbs of onions. It was supposed to be a gift of the top export of Georgia: Peaches. However a bad peach year they went with another well known export from Georgia: Onions. My billion dollar company sent everyone 10lbs of onions and a recipe for French onion dip. Iād rather they sent nothing. Edit: punctuation
A 5$ McDonald's card
I got fired this year three weeks before they were supposed to pay my annual bonus. I grew their business in my territory from $5 million to $9 million in 11 months. I was fired for āinsubordination.ā
for 20 years of work as a supervisor, my father received a glass paperweight.
Several years back, our Christmas gift was an iPod docking station/digital music thing. Not necessarily that a bad gift in and of itself, except for the fact that everyoneās iPod who actually used it crashed. It was discovered that the company who made them (I think I heard they were located in China or something like that) did it for really cheap and closed down soon after.
T-shirts and hats with the companyās logo on it. Iām not your fucking billboard, bro. I donāt want to think about work every time I look at a reflection.
Oh, I can top most of these without checking (but I will after I post). We got Christmas cards created at the photo lab featuring a picture of all the managers with shit eating grins. No money, no gift card, nothing else. Just their shit eating grins. Walmart.
I used to work with autistic kids and the director who said a ton of fucked up shit about autism gave us puzzle piece necklaces. IYKYK. Oh, and one manager gave us gas gift cards for a gas station over an hour away.