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”
Got a $100 “bonus” taxed so came out to $67
Then hr sends out an email next day asking everyone who received a bonus if EQCH PERSON would “pitch in” 25-50$ each towards a bass pro shop gift card for the boss because of “all he does for us”
They asked every one of the 55 employees this.
The same boss whom the year prior gave the server at the Xmas dinner $1200 In tips because she sat on his lap like he was Santa and then proceeded to tell 12 people there they were f*****g fired. And wondered why they didn’t show up to work the 27th.
F**k you ryan. Your a real piece of s**t
What Christmas bonus?
10k employees. Company made 5.5 BILLION in profit.
CEO makes $40m and has TWO $12m houses.
Not even a Christmas party this year. “Budget problems, blah, blah, blah”.
A couple years ago, my old employer gifted every single department one tube of chapstick with the company’s logo on it. I mean, I used it but then lost it like a week later so…
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 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.
I still don’t know how it worked or why. I worked at a hotel and everyone was handed a legit check from butterball for $10 with their paycheck.
I took it to the grocery store and they got so confused they just gave me a frozen turkey.
One of the bellmen said he cashed it for $10 and it worked.
I’m still confused by the butterball turkey check.
You could accept it & it would be contributed to the Xmas party fund or not accept it and don’t go. We also had to bring our own booze to the Xmas party.
My third year there, they discontinued the turkey/ham. After tax, I got a check for $11.
I started a new job later that year. At Christmas time, my boss pulled me aside and told me that bonuses would be coming, and warned me not to be discouraged because my bonus would be prorated as I had started midyear.
On bonus day, he pulled me into an office apologized for the size of the bonus, and handed me a check for $8,000.
I laughed my a*s off.
He asked me why I was laughing. Fortunately, I still had my uncashed “bonus” from the previous year in my wallet. I handed him the check for $11 bucks, and told him what it was.
“I guess you’re OK with the prorated bonus, then?” was his reply.
Many vital employees who helped build the place quit.
The mgmt continues to chip away. It went from a great place to work to s**t.
I was working for a company and was a few months in. In this company, there were full time and contracted workers (they would have people on contract for 3 months before converting them to full time. I was projected to move to full time in the new year). Before the holiday, they gathered ALL of us together on a meeting, gave the updates, and told us they had a special announcement. The CEO then said that everybody on the call was getting a $1,200 bonus.
Once we got off, they messaged us and said that non full-time employees weren’t included. They forgot to take us off of the meeting.
So, my worst bonus was a bonus that I had and then didn’t have.
That was it, all they got for risking their lives and their families lives on a daily basis while everyone else was marooned at home.
I don’t get bonuses. BUT. this year we had to pay $80pp to attend our Christmas party lol
Not me but in the late 90s my mom was a nurses aide for a very large hospital (approx 5k employees at the time) that would give everyone monetary “end of year” bonuses as well as vouchers in your pay check envelope for a free turkey and a free ham at the local grocery store chain.
One year though, without an announcement ahead of time, the hospital had no bonuses and no turkey or ham vouchers.
There was a voucher however, to pick up your free copy of a hard cover, gold leafed, all pages printed in color book of the entire history of the hospital itself. Thousands of these had been printed and, by spring of the next year, waiting rooms and lobbies all throughout the hospital and clinics were overflowing with the books. Pages were ripped out and kids had colored in them.
Several physicians, surgeons and RNs quit over the lack of bonuses because that was part of their employment contract with the hospital. It was a mess.
A letter saying there wasn’t going to be one.
An email telling us that because we are IT we wont be getting a holiday bonus anymore.
“As IT is a cost center, and doesnt generate revenue, IT departments will no longer be eligible for a holiday bonus”
Never mind that this company did BILLIONS of dollars a year in business… without any physical locations. Their entire operational surface was ONLINE…
yeah.
2 weeks later my IT Manager comes in all excited about the new Tesla he just bought.
oh, right, hes not an IT Manager. Hes a Manager of IT. So hes a manager, not IT…
the collective moral of all the IT teams dropped to near zero. 5 years later when I left that company, IT still wasnt eligable for holiday bonuses, AND had been uninvited from the Holiday party. Not that they cared, they just kept hiring offshore IT replacements with zero skill. yeah F**K that company. They are a mortgage company.
My boss got me a book. When I opened it, a card fell out addressed to him telling him to enjoy the book. The guy who sat next to me had a different boss and he got $1,000 cash.
A donut.
Yes, a pink glazed donut with sprinkles on the top. Individually boxed and left on our desks late at night by the internal marketing team.
I got in early to discover mine and enjoy the comments from my co-workers. The most common one was “oh get f****d” as they yeeted it into the trash.
Mandatory company dinner with coworkers. I spend 9 hours a day with them, why ruin my evening?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are getting a piñata at the holiday party. So we can crawl around on the ground for candy while the boss watches. Fun.
I got 220 corporate “points” which I can exchange for a $50 amazon gift card or a variety of sh*tty products.
My colleague hit the nail on the head "I've never heard diversity weaponised until I heard that"
Got a $100 "bonus" taxed so came out to $67
Then hr sends out an email next day asking everyone who received a bonus if EQCH PERSON would "pitch in" 25-50$ each towards a bass pro shop gift card for the boss because of "all he does for us"
They asked every one of the 55 employees this.
The same boss whom the year prior gave the server at the Xmas dinner $1200 In tips because she sat on his lap like he was Santa and then proceeded to tell 12 people there they were f*****g fired. And wondered why they didn't show up to work the 27th.
F**k you ryan. Your a real piece of s**t
What Christmas bonus?
10k employees. Company made 5.5 BILLION in profit.
CEO makes $40m and has TWO $12m houses.
Not even a Christmas party this year. "Budget problems, blah, blah, blah".
A couple years ago, my old employer gifted every single department one tube of chapstick with the company’s logo on it. I mean, I used it but then lost it like a week later so…
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 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.
I still don't know how it worked or why. I worked at a hotel and everyone was handed a legit check from butterball for $10 with their paycheck.
I took it to the grocery store and they got so confused they just gave me a frozen turkey.
One of the bellmen said he cashed it for $10 and it worked.
I'm still confused by the butterball turkey check.
You could accept it & it would be contributed to the Xmas party fund or not accept it and don't go. We also had to bring our own booze to the Xmas party.
My third year there, they discontinued the turkey/ham. After tax, I got a check for $11.
I started a new job later that year. At Christmas time, my boss pulled me aside and told me that bonuses would be coming, and warned me not to be discouraged because my bonus would be prorated as I had started midyear.
On bonus day, he pulled me into an office apologized for the size of the bonus, and handed me a check for $8,000.
I laughed my a*s off.
He asked me why I was laughing. Fortunately, I still had my uncashed "bonus" from the previous year in my wallet. I handed him the check for $11 bucks, and told him what it was.
"I guess you're OK with the prorated bonus, then?" was his reply.
Many vital employees who helped build the place quit.
The mgmt continues to chip away. It went from a great place to work to s**t.
I was working for a company and was a few months in. In this company, there were full time and contracted workers (they would have people on contract for 3 months before converting them to full time. I was projected to move to full time in the new year). Before the holiday, they gathered ALL of us together on a meeting, gave the updates, and told us they had a special announcement. The CEO then said that everybody on the call was getting a $1,200 bonus.
Once we got off, they messaged us and said that non full-time employees weren't included. They forgot to take us off of the meeting.
So, my worst bonus was a bonus that I had and then didn't have.
That was it, all they got for risking their lives and their families lives on a daily basis while everyone else was marooned at home.
I don’t get bonuses. BUT. this year we had to pay $80pp to attend our Christmas party lol
Not me but in the late 90s my mom was a nurses aide for a very large hospital (approx 5k employees at the time) that would give everyone monetary “end of year” bonuses as well as vouchers in your pay check envelope for a free turkey and a free ham at the local grocery store chain.
One year though, without an announcement ahead of time, the hospital had no bonuses and no turkey or ham vouchers.
There was a voucher however, to pick up your free copy of a hard cover, gold leafed, all pages printed in color book of the entire history of the hospital itself. Thousands of these had been printed and, by spring of the next year, waiting rooms and lobbies all throughout the hospital and clinics were overflowing with the books. Pages were ripped out and kids had colored in them.
Several physicians, surgeons and RNs quit over the lack of bonuses because that was part of their employment contract with the hospital. It was a mess.
A letter saying there wasn’t going to be one.
An email telling us that because we are IT we wont be getting a holiday bonus anymore.
"As IT is a cost center, and doesnt generate revenue, IT departments will no longer be eligible for a holiday bonus"
Never mind that this company did BILLIONS of dollars a year in business... without any physical locations. Their entire operational surface was ONLINE...
yeah.
2 weeks later my IT Manager comes in all excited about the new Tesla he just bought.
oh, right, hes not an IT Manager. Hes a Manager of IT. So hes a manager, not IT...
the collective moral of all the IT teams dropped to near zero. 5 years later when I left that company, IT still wasnt eligable for holiday bonuses, AND had been uninvited from the Holiday party. Not that they cared, they just kept hiring offshore IT replacements with zero skill. yeah F**K that company. They are a mortgage company.
My boss got me a book. When I opened it, a card fell out addressed to him telling him to enjoy the book. The guy who sat next to me had a different boss and he got $1,000 cash.
A donut.
Yes, a pink glazed donut with sprinkles on the top. Individually boxed and left on our desks late at night by the internal marketing team.
I got in early to discover mine and enjoy the comments from my co-workers. The most common one was "oh get f****d" as they yeeted it into the trash.
Mandatory company dinner with coworkers. I spend 9 hours a day with them, why ruin my evening?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are getting a piñata at the holiday party. So we can crawl around on the ground for candy while the boss watches. Fun.
I got 220 corporate "points" which I can exchange for a $50 amazon gift card or a variety of sh*tty products.
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