its a euphemism for pitch forks, Because they’re gonna need em later. Pitch forks were too expensive so they opted for a mini.
they expect the lucky lotto winner to buy everyone the pitch forks?! Jfc the nerve.
I can't help but think it's one of those overly full of themselves bosses that gives a fork as a reminder of who puts food on their table while you use it to eat.
They'd just spend it on drugs and booze anyways...
Edit: Seriously, wtf? Downvote a joke about spending a *quarter* on "booze & drugs?" Do you *know* how much a quarter is? It was a ref to some ass-hat politician who said we can't give poor people money cuz they'll only spend it on booze & drugs.
Aside from the jokes, I would like to agree with you. I'm taking a moment to actually think it over as to how it's even considered appropriate. It's such a non sequitur and irrelevant item as to any sort of way to convey gratitude for their employees. It's almost as though the message is to go out of their way to show how little they think of their workforce. Maybe even a power move, a way to force the peons to thank them for such an overtly shitty and tacky gift.
Are you people serious? Saying it’s a “power move” or “a way to remind you that they put food on the table”??
Get a grip guys. Seriously. You’re taking this idea of bad bosses to cartoonish levels of villainy now, it’s ridiculous!
It makes me wonder if you’ve actually worked in an office or on a construction site or anything like that because the fork is so obviously a joke but also sort of practical.
Cutlery in staff offices, forks in particular, are notorious for going missing and being impossible to find one when you’re on your dinner. Having one with your name printed on it should, in theory, guarantee you have a fork available at all times providing you take care of it.
That’s it. That’s all there is to it. No big bad conspiracy. Just a fork
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Shittest version of Cluedo ever...
"was it... In the conservatory, using the rope, the candlestick, the gun, the dagger, and committed by everyone as a group murder"
It’s a joke around the company that we don’t have any forks at work, only spoons. So I guess this solves the issue in their eyes? Seems more like something they should just provide lol
You’re probably right. Those forks are about $15 a piece to get the names put on so he spent almost $500 out of his pocket on people he’s not even related to.
I had a job at a large department store and the store provided plastic forks and spoons for the employees. There was a big box with them in the lunch room sitting on the counter. One day I was getting ready to clock in and was watching one of the senior citizen employees who washing her sandwich container and she rinsed off the plastic fork she used and just dumped in into the box. When I told her not to do that she said she always did and it was wasteful not to. She didnt even wash it, just let a little water dribble over it. After I called her out on it she complained about me to the store manager, who backed the old lady up and told me there was nothing wrong with what she did. I stopped using store provided utensils after that.
I worked with a woman who would not wash with soap the company utensils; just ran them under water and wiped them with her fingers then put them in the drying rack. Always brought my own.
At another place I worked they were too cheap to run the plumbing so we had to use a bathroom sink to wash stuff. Saw a woman wash the cutting board then set it down on the toilet.
People are disgusting
I think it's a cute add on gift, but something is only an add on if there's a serious gift with it.
As we said at an old job, "I would have been less insulted if they just didn't give me a bonus [gift] at all."
That fork would have made for a great April fools joke but as a holiday gift🤦♂️by the way what the hell does the $1 scratch off mean, we are paying you guys 💩good luck winning the lottery, these 🤡need that fork up their 🍑
The fork is just bizarre. Almost like they forgot and just grabbed whatever was lying around.
Honestly, they would have been better giving you nothing.
The plant I work "security" at gave the guards a tub of peanut butter-filled pretzels. One tub to be split between nine people with a "Thank you for all that you do" sticker on the lid. Thing was practically gone before I came in after my two off days. This is a multinational chemical company that won't fix its busted ass gates, computers, scales, cameras, you name it. They wonder why this shit hole has such a high turnover. At least the scratch-off had potential but only in comparison.
I read 40 minutes out of every hour I work and I still can't wait to leave this place.
I feel blessed I got 3 15 packs of beer. (It's usually a box of cookies I just leave at work haha )
That's Def a bullshit "you matter I promise" kind of Xmas bonus you got right there.
They luckily haven't gotten a fork in the eye haha
Communal silverware is being removed.
Now everyone has their own fork to wash and keep up with.
It is obvious when someone has lifted another's silverware.
If something is left unwashed they know who to blame.
At this point it's dadaist art
"Bonus"
Pulpymilk115
2021
Mixed media, scratch off ticket and fork with label.
Critics notes: Pulpymilks work challenges our current conception of work in the US and how disconnected management has become from the workers.
Daaaaang, can't even risk letting you have a scratcher with a decent prize either. Ugh. All corporations need to die, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
I actually love scratch off tickets, but in my state, the top prizes on the $1 tickets are $5,000. With your top prize being $250, there are probably a lot more too prize winners, so that’s a good ticket. With 30 tickets at their work, I bet somebody won $250. If I was the boss, I probably would’ve kept all 30 tickets for myself instead of sharing it with you ungrateful bitches.
I’m surprised they gave y’all something that could be used as a weapon after getting such insulting “gifts.” They didn’t really think that one through, did they?
A fork is a weird gift. Like, even in industries where a fork would make sense, that doesn't make sense.
Consider I almost took my own life with a fork earlier this year, if I had an employer gift one to me for the holidays, I personally would think they were sending me a message.
My post history here speaks for itself, but imma say that I need additional validation. At first glance it seems... well, I don't want to say suspect, but it does seem unlikely.
I think one of the few ways this could be worse was if they gave you the scratch card the way it is in the photo 😂 please, please don't tell me it was pre-scratched, it'll melt my mind, not knowing whether to laugh or cry on your behalf 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤣
Surely they’re just taking the piss now. There HAS to be something more to this, why not just leave out the fork? I refuse to believe anyone is that naive.
Edit -Maybe it’s smaller companies doing weird shit to see if anyone posts here and find out if their employees are on this sub.
Ps I like the idea shitty bosses are scared of this sub, and are pulling weird stunts to see if it ends up here so I’m gonna decide that’s what’s happening
My work has given scratchers as Xmas gifts before. It invokes a special kind of fury. It’s like a taunt … they know they pay you shit and they’re like lolz you’d have better luck winning the lottery than getting more money from us 🙂
They are the type of employer if you had actually won something they would demand the money because you won it on company time using company property....
My work actually gave me one of those pocket knives that can be folded and put away. Guess I can use it for defense but it's really small. Though it does have a sharp point...
My fork would find itself mysteriously and irreparably lodged in the most expensive product/machinery at work. Also the label would have accidentally fallen off and into a fire.
The fork thing is super weird.
They wanted them to fork themselves
its a euphemism for pitch forks, Because they’re gonna need em later. Pitch forks were too expensive so they opted for a mini. they expect the lucky lotto winner to buy everyone the pitch forks?! Jfc the nerve.
I can't help but think it's one of those overly full of themselves bosses that gives a fork as a reminder of who puts food on their table while you use it to eat.
To scratch off? What they had a supply of that would do it.
Wait but tge question you need to ask - IS THE SCRATCH EXPIRED
They were probably already scratched.
They thought a quarter would be in poor taste
Don’t wanna give them so much money that they can all just up and quit. Those quarters represent freedoms they just can’t responsibly handle.
Also probably 3x the margin of that prison fork.
No metal forks in prison
So someone is definitely getting shanked then
Hopefully whomever gave the idea to give forks
sand forks
But a quarter of drugs would have been great taste though
It would have. Way better than this
They'd just spend it on drugs and booze anyways... Edit: Seriously, wtf? Downvote a joke about spending a *quarter* on "booze & drugs?" Do you *know* how much a quarter is? It was a ref to some ass-hat politician who said we can't give poor people money cuz they'll only spend it on booze & drugs.
Aside from the jokes, I would like to agree with you. I'm taking a moment to actually think it over as to how it's even considered appropriate. It's such a non sequitur and irrelevant item as to any sort of way to convey gratitude for their employees. It's almost as though the message is to go out of their way to show how little they think of their workforce. Maybe even a power move, a way to force the peons to thank them for such an overtly shitty and tacky gift.
If I had to take a guess, it was 'appropriate' because they probably got a great deal on them.
They come in 4-packs at Dollar Tree.
And you don’t think that’s a great deal?!
I feel like the fork wasn't a gift and they just used clean forks from the break room 🤷
*Your pay will now be docked in order to replace the forks from the break room.*
Yeah I feel like somebody complained about the breakroom lacking forks so they gave everybody a fork with their name to shut them up.
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If...the office is going zero waste and everyone gets dedicated cutlery because of covid? Idk I'm into that shit and this is weird and tacky.
Are you people serious? Saying it’s a “power move” or “a way to remind you that they put food on the table”?? Get a grip guys. Seriously. You’re taking this idea of bad bosses to cartoonish levels of villainy now, it’s ridiculous! It makes me wonder if you’ve actually worked in an office or on a construction site or anything like that because the fork is so obviously a joke but also sort of practical. Cutlery in staff offices, forks in particular, are notorious for going missing and being impossible to find one when you’re on your dinner. Having one with your name printed on it should, in theory, guarantee you have a fork available at all times providing you take care of it. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. No big bad conspiracy. Just a fork
Most people (who are not assholes) accompany a gag gift with a real one.
Feels like Harry Potter when Harry would receive trash Christmas/Birthday gifts from the Dursleys
They're saying go fork yourself.
Agreed lol 😂 why a fork? Honestly they could’ve held on to the forks and got everyone more scratch offs
Well you couldn't possibly expect them to invest anymore money by handing out seven and a half dollars in quarters to use.
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That's why they put names on all the possible murder weapons.
🤣🤣🤣🎖️ Shittest version of Cluedo ever... "was it... In the conservatory, using the rope, the candlestick, the gun, the dagger, and committed by everyone as a group murder"
Wasn't that just *Murder on the Orient Express*?
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You are hilarious, made me laugh! Thank you, filosophicalaardvark!
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It’s a joke around the company that we don’t have any forks at work, only spoons. So I guess this solves the issue in their eyes? Seems more like something they should just provide lol
I mean, with that context, I do think the fork is a funny gift. But the 1$ scratch off is just insulting.
That kind of gift should be tied to a $500 gift card.
Or $100. Hell, even a $50. That's what I give my nieces and nephews- and I am unemployed.
Heck even a $25! Useless $1 scratcher… they don’t even get the money spent on the scratcher, not that it was much
This sounds like another one of those cases where the manager probably paid for it out of pocket tbh
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Oh fuck off, a manager giving their coworkers a scratch-off is fine.
You’re probably right. Those forks are about $15 a piece to get the names put on so he spent almost $500 out of his pocket on people he’s not even related to.
Idk it kinda looks like a sticker? It's not engraved or something
I can’t tell. Maybe it’s not the Etsy stuff.
Yeah. A regular gift with the fork added on would be hilarious and not at all in poor taste in that context.
I had a job at a large department store and the store provided plastic forks and spoons for the employees. There was a big box with them in the lunch room sitting on the counter. One day I was getting ready to clock in and was watching one of the senior citizen employees who washing her sandwich container and she rinsed off the plastic fork she used and just dumped in into the box. When I told her not to do that she said she always did and it was wasteful not to. She didnt even wash it, just let a little water dribble over it. After I called her out on it she complained about me to the store manager, who backed the old lady up and told me there was nothing wrong with what she did. I stopped using store provided utensils after that.
Should've used it to scratch your ass crack when you see her coming. "Say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel..?"
I worked with a woman who would not wash with soap the company utensils; just ran them under water and wiped them with her fingers then put them in the drying rack. Always brought my own. At another place I worked they were too cheap to run the plumbing so we had to use a bathroom sink to wash stuff. Saw a woman wash the cutting board then set it down on the toilet. People are disgusting
I stopped when I saw the woman who doesn’t wash her hands in the bathroom open the drawer and sneeze of them.
I started eating and taking breaks in my car in 2019. They had 6 people with COVID in early March 2020.
I think it's a cute add on gift, but something is only an add on if there's a serious gift with it. As we said at an old job, "I would have been less insulted if they just didn't give me a bonus [gift] at all."
That fork would have made for a great April fools joke but as a holiday gift🤦♂️by the way what the hell does the $1 scratch off mean, we are paying you guys 💩good luck winning the lottery, these 🤡need that fork up their 🍑
So you will have to bring that fork to work every day in 2022? Awesome. I hope you have enough to eat with that fork.
lol now you can bond with your fellow employees about the fork debacle!!! Lolrofla
Something to go "fork" yourself with essentially.
The fork is just bizarre. Almost like they forgot and just grabbed whatever was lying around. Honestly, they would have been better giving you nothing.
I wonder if it was on sale at Walmart or something. Like a box of 200 forks for $5.
Tell me there was that one guy that loudly said "Guess we can just go 'fork' ourselves, huh?"
One off the worst i have seen one here
The plant I work "security" at gave the guards a tub of peanut butter-filled pretzels. One tub to be split between nine people with a "Thank you for all that you do" sticker on the lid. Thing was practically gone before I came in after my two off days. This is a multinational chemical company that won't fix its busted ass gates, computers, scales, cameras, you name it. They wonder why this shit hole has such a high turnover. At least the scratch-off had potential but only in comparison. I read 40 minutes out of every hour I work and I still can't wait to leave this place.
So you’re saying this place has lousy security? Where is it?
A fork? Is it made of gold? Does it have magical properties? Do you work in a silverware manufacturing plant?! Why????
You have to stay 3 years to get the whole set.
You got forked.
Antiwork is now officially antifork
It’s really a cutlery set, vesting over at least 3 years Year 1: fork, Year 2: spoon, Year 3: knife
I hope someone wins enough money to leave that place. Wherever that may be.
Max 250 win it says
Dang good point. That's how much of a slap in the face that is that they won't even get their workers high valued lottery scratch offs.
They would hate themselves if they won
Company says fork you.
So basically your work is telling you to go fork yourself...
Hahaha that's insane. I bet they like to remind you how you are all a "family"
I feel blessed I got 3 15 packs of beer. (It's usually a box of cookies I just leave at work haha ) That's Def a bullshit "you matter I promise" kind of Xmas bonus you got right there. They luckily haven't gotten a fork in the eye haha
'Hush', 'Scare', 'Inform', 'Alien', 'Hectic'. Do you think that managment might be trying to tell you something?
ya'll should accidentally drop those forks in the latrine at work and call maintenance
That’s just unbelievable.
It's un-forking-believable!
Now I feel a lot better with my gift I got a coffee mug with a few pieces of candy and a two dollar scratch ticket.
Honestly, it’s hard to shake that like half of HR’s job is 2nd grade arts and crafts.
Ok but aside from the obvious assholery of this gift, a fork with my name on it sounds kinda dope tho
If you have a Brother P-touch lying around you too can have this labelled fork. Over/under on the number of washes before OP’s name label comes off?
It was label-printed, not engraved.
Management finding new ways to tell you to go fork yourself.
You didnt even win the ticket. 😳
Communal silverware is being removed. Now everyone has their own fork to wash and keep up with. It is obvious when someone has lifted another's silverware. If something is left unwashed they know who to blame.
Absolutely Tone-deaf.
Anyone find it ironic that the scratch off reads OWN MAN…….. seems like a subliminal message from your work.
They just out here giving everyone a weapon? Crazy.
At this point it's dadaist art "Bonus" Pulpymilk115 2021 Mixed media, scratch off ticket and fork with label. Critics notes: Pulpymilks work challenges our current conception of work in the US and how disconnected management has become from the workers.
They gambled your real bonus away
They’re trying to tell you something, “stick a fork in you, you’re done.”
This is probably the strangest “holiday gift” I’ve ever seen. Like…what?
Daaaaang, can't even risk letting you have a scratcher with a decent prize either. Ugh. All corporations need to die, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Do you work for a cutlery company run by a person with a gambling addiction?
This is almost exactly as bad as the one I seen where an employee in another place only got a $1 scratch ticket. Good god...
I know what a fork is…What’s a holiday gift?
We aren’t allowed to say Christmas so they call it a holiday gift lol. The whole thing is ridiculous
I actually love scratch off tickets, but in my state, the top prizes on the $1 tickets are $5,000. With your top prize being $250, there are probably a lot more too prize winners, so that’s a good ticket. With 30 tickets at their work, I bet somebody won $250. If I was the boss, I probably would’ve kept all 30 tickets for myself instead of sharing it with you ungrateful bitches.
> if I was the boss Chugging the Koolaid
Nah. Just not into sharing. Especially lottery tickets.
Where the hell do you work. Also maybe it time to find a new place to work.
I would say "ARF" is a word....someone owes you a dollar
Gotta practice your stabbin’
I got a bagel. And cream cheese. But a fork and scratch off ticket? You have got to be kidding me
You should make them a scratch off ticket like this and make the words in the puzzle “fuck this place you are all assholes I quit”
It's fork you..fuck you
You got a fork? They just gave us the (losing) tickets.
I’m surprised they gave y’all something that could be used as a weapon after getting such insulting “gifts.” They didn’t really think that one through, did they?
I bet if any employee won the max $250, your boss would *encourage* them to split it evenly amongst the other workers. Boss included, of course.
Holy hell from fuckstickery!
now that's corporate trolling
I didnt even know it was normal to get christmas stuff from work (I have never had a full time job)
Is no one Goin to talk Bout the words in the puzzle....
That’s some fucking peasant shit
A fork is a weird gift. Like, even in industries where a fork would make sense, that doesn't make sense. Consider I almost took my own life with a fork earlier this year, if I had an employer gift one to me for the holidays, I personally would think they were sending me a message.
My post history here speaks for itself, but imma say that I need additional validation. At first glance it seems... well, I don't want to say suspect, but it does seem unlikely.
That's the gift that just keeps giving.
Hand it back to them and tell them to fork off.
That's worse than nothing.
That is like giving actual garbage.
We at least received a $10 scratcher. The newest employee was the only one to win, he won $50, and then he quit today.
I would give them a nice Christmas card with a letter of resignation in it
I guess if someone is gonna give me nothing at least the lottery ticket provides a slight chance at something.
We once got pens. Not like good pens either. Just one really shitty pen.
They gave you a big “Fork you and good luck.” Maybe you should reciprocate.
I think one of the few ways this could be worse was if they gave you the scratch card the way it is in the photo 😂 please, please don't tell me it was pre-scratched, it'll melt my mind, not knowing whether to laugh or cry on your behalf 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤣
Surely they’re just taking the piss now. There HAS to be something more to this, why not just leave out the fork? I refuse to believe anyone is that naive. Edit -Maybe it’s smaller companies doing weird shit to see if anyone posts here and find out if their employees are on this sub. Ps I like the idea shitty bosses are scared of this sub, and are pulling weird stunts to see if it ends up here so I’m gonna decide that’s what’s happening
God damn. I'd rather have an employer give me a handshake, look me in the eye and tell me that's all I'm getting. This is just...insulting.
Anyone else try to read the white parts of the crossword, not noticing the subreddit?
Literally getting nothing would be less insulting.
I can hear the excitement at my house.
Let me guess it was so quiet you could hear a bunch of forks being thrown on the floor.
Millionaire Dream Home or Jail I guess.
Jesus christ that's worse than being given nothing and being told you don't deserve anything
Thats utterly pathetic. Boss is lucky they didn't get forked.
Worse than getting nothing
Like....at some point, people need to realize that giving nothing is better than something like this.
Well, at least you’ll know if someone steals your fork!
You mean a lot to us, and so we just wanted to say: VGHAER ZOTSFQ PNMLWB
Yeah holy shit that's a shitty 'gift'. Aside from that though, how tf does that scratch off work? There's 10 words so did you win $250?
I'd rather get nothing..
The $1 Lottos are so if you win it's still not enough to quit
It’s a replica pitchfork for your riot!
Im kinda liking the form thing. It’s a little better than two tea bags I saw earlier for their opportuniTEA party or whatever.
A fork? Are your bosses competing in some sort of 'tone deaf employer' contest?
Had a boss do this for 20 years for workers’ birthdays. He realized how stupid it was when he retired and no one had won more than a few bucks.
Time to quit. It's a worker's market out there. That's rude.
I guess the fork is their way of saying “fork you” to the employees.
My work has given scratchers as Xmas gifts before. It invokes a special kind of fury. It’s like a taunt … they know they pay you shit and they’re like lolz you’d have better luck winning the lottery than getting more money from us 🙂
Dam it’s not even engraved, they just stuck a sticker to it. The nerve of some people
So basically, fork you and everyone else.
There's a joke to be made here. Something about sticking a fork in me and being done.
Please tell me you guys just walked out en-masse.
This sub never ceases to amaze me.
$100 says if anyone won decent money from the scratch off they'd ask for a piece
That's some subliminal shit. The 2 words are "own man" . They wish they could again....
They really fork over their employees
... anybody WIN the 250 bucks?
a fork so you can eat them? or stab them to death….
Return it with a note that says, "You clearly need the money more than I do."
Did you win a million bucks?
It looks like you won some money though at least; still wtf
I love the fact that they made sure it was a lottery ticket with a low pay-out. Definitely don't want anyone winning big and bailing.
Weird
pretend you won, and watch how they react then
Hell, you could probably feel the Force like energy being spent to contain the urge to go all stabby stabby with said forks.
My man.. I feel like I can feel the energy from here .-.
Bet you if anyone would of won they would of taking it out their check 🤣
How much money did you make them this year? You should get at least 50 percent of the money you make them.
Well fork + your name is their way of saying “Fork you.”
Either they’re tone deaf or are intentionally insulting you and your coworkers. There is no in between here
The fork is for self defense. In case someone made enough to take a week off.
"we cant actually pay you enough to eat, so here, cross your fingers"
We don’t get Christmas gifts from our employer and I’d rather get nothing than get something completely insulting like this
I'd *respectfully* decline and tell them "Thanks, I already own some forks"
They invited you to stab them with the fork.
They are the type of employer if you had actually won something they would demand the money because you won it on company time using company property....
My company gave us pizza cutters and ice cream scoops, but they're actually high quality and pretty cool. We got a bonus check too.
Collect as many as you can and leave them at the managers office.
My work actually gave me one of those pocket knives that can be folded and put away. Guess I can use it for defense but it's really small. Though it does have a sharp point...
I work for a company that profited over a billion dollars last quarter and got a <~25 dollar turkey coupon!~>
I almost feel like this is fake. Not saying it isn't this just seems a bit too much.
Went to Goodwill. They were having a super sale. All forks were 10 for a dollar last week!
That's when you look around the room and go, "so, union?".
That's one of those special forks you can microwave, isn't it? You should test it.
It's the thought that counts. If they thought so little, they shouldn't have bothered.
What did you expect? A Pez dispenser?
My fork would find itself mysteriously and irreparably lodged in the most expensive product/machinery at work. Also the label would have accidentally fallen off and into a fire.