[Chris Stone / Stone News Network / December 13, 2023 12:30 PM MST / 2:30 PM EST]
From the non-existent holiday bonus, to a cheap, crappy dollar store card: We've all had awful gifts from co-workers, friends, family, and your boss. Below is a sampling of the interesting stories trending on /askreddit recently:
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.”
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I used to work at the Cheesecake factory and one year they gave everyone a cheesecake. From Costco.
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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.
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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 weaponized until I heard that"
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We get a mandatory work party which will cost each of us 25 dollars
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Here's mine:
People are getting bonuses?
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