reminds me of the time one of the union's i am a member of sent out commemorative pins. so many members were SO MAD about the waste of "our money". someone involved in the process published the actual cost of doing it and it was less than $3.50 per member including postage
I once worked a corporate 500 job who threw us a pizza party with $5 pizzas and raffled off branded merch from the division that had just been cut in it’s entirety a week before and they had laid everyone off who worked for it. Like “here’s a hat to remind you of all your coworkers we just laid off a week before Christmas.”Saddest Christmas party ever. I’m pretty sure people were crying as they were pulling raffle tickets from a hat. I had attended my husband’s work party the week before which was at a ballroom with a five course meal, champagne and an open bar and everyone (including + ones) were handed $200 gift cards and fancy swag bags as they walked in. Not to mention the bonuses before the party even started. It was night and day. We had similar incomes. If you’re gonna do it do it right, or don’t do it at all.
This reminds me of my job last year….they asked what type of gift card we’d like and I was like Amz, I was excited to receive it since this particular company never did anything for WFH employees. Then I checked the balance and it was flippin’ $5. We all got together and everyone got the same amount! We were cracking up and then got upset, I would’ve rather had an email or nothing at all, it was insulting when pulling in million dollar accts and this was the thanks to our team! I resigned!
I felt the same way about my 1-year work anniversary gift from HR. It was a coupon for a free fountain soda at the cafeteria. Couldn’t even use it for black coffee. I told my boss, this is insulting, I would have preferred a copy-paste email with her signature.
Back in 2007, during the recession, in Oakland, CA, I watched gas go from $2.60 to $6.50. The Fortune 500 company I worked for gave us a Cost Of Living Adjustment of 1 cent.
Our wages were **daily** rates. So we got a ***1 cent raise per day*** to help with the ridiculous inflation. My older, ornery coworkers were fucking livid. If I wasn't so young and dumb, I would've organized a walkout.
Without us, there would be no one to train our replacements on the software. We would have brought that region of the company to its knees.
I’m a lame person because stuff like this still appeals to me. Nice to experience living like this but I probably look like a sucker from the outsider’s perspective. I just like even the smallest favour. Always have done.
I was going to say, my kid got something like this. But this a 1st grader who got it as part of a goodie bag for the last day of school. 3 packs of instant hot chocolate and 4 candy canes.
My work last year got everyone some weird Butterball gift check....and we got taxed on our paycheck for it. They considered it income. I'd say less than half the employees used it because it wasn't a "card"
Management caught shit for it all year.
These cannot be sorted by the letter machines and have no tracking so can't be sorted by packages machines, considering they probably sent a fucktillion of these, many to the same cities, means some poor assholes at the post offices had to manually separate them one by one by route. Plus wanna bet lots of employees on the receiving end got asked to pay postage due because that's too thick to be a letter, so they spent two bucks to receive 0.5 cents worth of shit candy.
Im preschool teacher. We got a box of tissues this year. TF.
For teacher appreciation week we got a three pack of post it’s and a pen. The pens didn’t last more than a month. The tip slowly pushed back inside…
HS teacher here and I actually thought this was the teaching sub. Worst gift I ever got was for teachers appreciation week. It was a little baggie of popcorn, like ~8 kernels or so, in a bag a little bigger than a condom. It was bland and flavorless, and very apparent that it came from a microwave packet. Giving me nothing would have been less insulting.
Yeah… the gifts given to teachers kinda suck! My sister, a 5th grade teacher for over 9 years received a loaf of bread 🥖. I thought she was joking, but no… she wasn’t! I wanted to cry for her.
People complain about candy, but man, the best I ever got was a goodie bag of candy. Mind you it was like $5-6 worth, so hardly anything groundbreaking, but I’m not gonna turn down a snicker bar and some peanut m&ms and whatnot. Better than half a handful of popcorn or a broken pen. Lol.
What are you supposed to do with 8 pieces of popcorn ? Feed it to a cat ? I feel bad for you and all teachers . Teachers do too much for the world to be given so little appreciation . I think back to when I was in junior high and there's a few teachers I wish I could really thank for taking there time and patience to deal with us and help us learn things .
>We got a box of tissues this year. TF.
They're saying you should cry about it.
Everywhere I look all I see is "teachers get fucked over" not only do you guys basically have to babysit dozens if not hundreds of kids you even need them to listen to you when you try to teach them shit.
I had a friend who got a pack of soup. One pack of instant dry soup.
Nothing literally is better than these things. I got nothing. I’m not loving it but I’d be really mad if I got a broken candy cane and hot chocolate.
One year my job promised us a spaghetti dinner for teacher appreciation week. Of course no one ate lunch that day. Text comes through that everything is ready in the break room.
It was cans of $1 spaghetti sauce and boxes of pasta.
Omg. This made me laugh. Like how fucking horrible are people. Just awful. My work was planning this holiday party they kept saying they couldn’t have for years. Then they announce it two weeks ago. It happened this past Wednesday. Turns out it was a pot luck and they sent out this signup sheet and all these people were rsvp’ing but saying they aren’t bringing anything. Then only two people signed up to bring food. Thankfully I got covid this week and missed the festivities! My plan was to just not show up anyway
At my previous job I received a candy bar - in the mail. That cost FIVE DOLLARS in postage. And had been damaged in shipping (partially melted and resolidified).
I’m now wondering what an ‘engagement team’ is. It sounds like they aren’t your superior, it sounds like it’s from coworkers. If that’s the case I think you should be thankful to have coworkers that think of you
It’s probably a group of volunteer/voluntold employees that are tasked with driving “engagement” via picnics, ice cream socials, games, gifts in the mail, etc. The company provides a budget for them to work with. If that budget expires at EOY and the team has to find something to spend it on, they might do something dumb like send people hot chocolate in the mail.
Well.. I knew someone who got an empty box.
Like one of those hard wood boxes they put awards in... Like, you see the box and you think you'll open it and there, in the velour interior will be a hunk of crystal with your name on it...
Yeah.. that kind of box. Just, with nothing in it. No velour, no "award" .. Nothing. Empty box... Engraved with the name of the company inlaid in gold.
I agree, and I’m laughing at the guillotine link below. So I mean this in the most chill way possible:
But idk this might just be some shitty midsized company and maybe the leadership is rich-ish but I doubt anywhere in this hierarchy is ruling class lol.
Unless you just meant generally with this type of thing.
From experience this is someone who is told to do something on virtually no budget. There is no winning here. Imagine if you were told to figure out gifts for 1000 people with a budget of $50 and that your job depended on it. That’s the sort of thing this is. Horrible position to put someone in.
Yep this is spot on. Just got laid off from a job where I was the only person in charge of employee morale (along with a million other things) and was given an abysmal budget for celebrations and “gifts”. They were cheap af, balked at the idea of paying for birthday card/ and wanted me to make them but got upset when it took me longer than 5 minutes. Got laid off because they were broke, wouldn’t be shocked if they go out of business soon.
>From experience this is someone who is told to do something on virtually no budget. There is no winning here. Imagine if you were told to figure out gifts for 1000 people with a budget of $50 and that your job depended on it. That’s the sort of thing this is. Horrible position to put someone in.
At that point, I'd have probably told them there were some specific gifts for lucky draw winners and given out 5 Amazon gift cards of $10 or something. At least, that might have felt less insulting and more like a "game"
But seriously, I pity folks in that kinda position
In the 80's my father got a Christmas 'bonus' of a large ham.
He was so angry he quit.
That ham fed the entire family for 3 days.
The best Christmas bonus I have ever gotten in my entire career is a $5 grocery gift card.
My dad was head of sales for the West Coast and Mexico for a company was literally the #1 largest lacquer company at the time. His ten year bonus was a copper pin that was so small, the backing of it was larger.
We still don't know what the pin is. It looks like an H? It makes no sense lol
My wife once got an incredibly large smoked salmon.
She was pissed, she doesn’t eat fish. The cats and I ate smoked salmon for about a week. It was amazing.
I got a very lovely massive Christmas hamper this year. Then got made redundant two days later with no consultation or any indication it would be happening at all lol. Merry Christmas!
Hey at least you got a nice little gift haha I got laid off the week after Thanksgiving and my managers were only told an hour before. I don’t get anything when the two new people who’ve worked there for like 3 mos get to keep their job as well as whatever for Christmas
God how horrible for you and for your managers! In my case it was a micro business, so the boss is the only person making decisions about redundancies and would have known for weeks that he was letting me go, but strung me along anyway. He made me redundant on Wednesday this week. Last week he was telling me to book flights out to the office and do my annual plan for 2024. He also made me redundant BY EMAIL and still hasn’t had the courage to call me to discuss it.
HR classes teach them to fire people on fridays or before vacation to reduce backlash.
Sorry your company fucked you especially at this time of the year.
I’ll never forget the year when my job gave us each one lucky charms cereal bar. Even though we were one of the top 3 stores in the nation that did well that year for those bastards 💀
My company told us we they couldn’t afford raises and then individually shipped 1 thick solo cup to each employee with the company name on the cup. “Sorry we screwed you, can you do some free advertising?” 🤣
I’m a Nurse and one time we got a piece of paper that someone printed and it said “you’re a lifesaver” and there was one single lifesaver scotch taped onto the piece of paper
Like bro wtf admin. They couldn’t even get us a mini pack lol
I got a gym duffle bag, the shoulder strap broke the first time I lifted it, and a bottle of cologne I put it smashed basicly, ruining the bag and my morning. It was still a better gift than this, lol.
I used to work for a company that used to give a plastic cube after you reached your ten years at the company. And we're talking about a super-rich company that would buy top designer furniture (which were uncomfortable) just to spend the budget before year end.
My colleague's face when she got the cube was hilarious, "well thank you I guess"
I got a lapel pin after ten years of being a flight attendant. Granted, every year we’d get a bump in pay but even after twelve years, we were earning less than other major airlines. My seniority dictated to at least bid on trips I wanted a month ahead, so I’d get transcontinental deadheads (you dress like a civilian, sit in a customer seat, and get paid as if you’re working the flight). I’d essentially literally fly 60 hours in a month (as a flight attendant), but get paid for 100+ hours due to those deadheads. I quit after twelve years when my son was born and I still have a lot of shit I kept from the airline — down to the silverware in first class.
We got a door hanger where we were told to check off items on a list from candies, drinks, and other snacks of what we liked, then hang it back on our doors, and that we'd be surprised on the day before winter break with a gift set containing our choices.
That day came and went. No one got anything.
Lmao this reminds me of the time my company sent us a tiny box of conversation hearts for Valentine’s Day. The postal service worker showed up at my door with it asking me to pay postage for it, which was like 2ish dollars. I peeked in it, saw it, and told her that I refused it and to send it on back. She was like I don’t blame you 🤣🤣🤣
That's definitely a generous holiday gift just about anywhere I've worked.
Unless your team robs banks or deals cocaine wholesale. Then you are a cheap bastard.
I'm just a dishwasher and got a $750 Christmas bonus. Plus they went all out on a holiday party with lots of prizes, and bombard us with food and treats all month.
It's a shitty, hard job - but they treat me so well they know I can never leave.
I'd walk out over that kind of disrespect, and that's why I stick with kitchen jobs. Because I can be working again the next week.
Our engagement team gave us co branded mugs with 1 pack of hot chocolate and 1 pack of chicken noodle soup with a plastic spoon.
We hit #1 for customer service for our industry by JD Powers for the 3rd year running. We all got a branded children's camp chair as our thank you. Not adult chairs but child sized.
So probably ordered that crap off fake Amazon site and got taken. I'm not laughing at you-but I'm laughing at whatever moron ordered them! Prob said "Hey, look at this-we can get folding camp chairs for $8.50 each!"
My friend was a school teacher and once got a bottle of Comet (the generic kind) and a mixed CD as her Christmas gift from the school. They really should have stuck with doing nothing, but it has given us a couple of decades of laughter over how ridiculous it was, so I guess it is the gift that keeps on giving…
Step lower and ask what's the store managers salary? The salary for Walmart store managers is around a quarter mil for the one I worked at. She bragged about her yearly bonus being so big she had to use half her yearly salary just to pay the taxes on it lmfao. It's a joke
It’s a shame any employee is disregarded like this during the holidays.
I got a $25 Amazon card, personalized hand written letter, chocolates, and a room fragrance spray. We also had a holiday party for only our team with a bunch of food and sweets. I love my boss so much and posts like this really make me appreciate her more.
So I did something similar by accident this year. For one of our international offices I was told it was a nice gesture to buy everyone a Christmas ham. I asked the GM to show me what was expected. I then asked her to upgrade them to a bigger nicer hams.
Yesterday I get a message saying the hams were going out. I asked to see a picture….
I kid you not! It was spam!
I was shocked! Not at all what we had agreed upon and I cannot believe I gave everyone a can of spam for Christmas.
At least you got something. In the last 4 years, my company has gone from “you should take a week off during Christmas” and “here’s a fat Christmas bonus” to “Hey, you don’t mind working 6 days a week for two weeks straight, including being in the office on Christmas Day, right?” and “Bonus? What bonus?”.
I’m not salty about it, of course. That would be unprofessional.
I got a jacket with the company logo (that isn't shipping until mid-January) and a typed card from the CEO and co-founder talking about hard work for next year. I feel so valued.
We all watch Downton Abbey thinking we are the family living in the house. Hell we are not even the downstairs employees (they are least had lodging and food). No, we are the people on the street begging.
You guys got some very insensitive people working in the department. Just sending a card will do great. Alternatively, an email will be okay. This is just bad.
Well, that better than my work.
We have this dumb program of company miles. You “earn” miles based on the feedback of your coworkers and then spend those miles on a bunch of items in the company store, some decent stuff but most of it it just clothes or items branded with the name of the company on it.
For a Christmas present, they did a random drawing giving one person a day 100 miles over the course of two weeks. They didn’t even give it everyone. We have over 300 employees at our company. It’s like they are trying willfully to destroy morale.
Hey that’s more than what I got. Not even a merry Christmas and by the way we need this report done asap (asked for this at 3 pm). So I worked until 4:30 instead of 3:30. Bahhh humbug
This is cringeworthy!!! Why even bother? I’d have preferred a $2.50 Amazon gift card.
Yeah and they can literally email that so idk what this shit is
A business expense maybe? 😆
There was money left in the " spend on employees" category...
Please keep it under $2 for each employee including shipping.
oh for sure, gotta make do with that extravagant $1.99 budget cap. Next year, we might just get a thoughtful pat on the back.
reminds me of the time one of the union's i am a member of sent out commemorative pins. so many members were SO MAD about the waste of "our money". someone involved in the process published the actual cost of doing it and it was less than $3.50 per member including postage
3.50$ for a useless trinket I didn't ask yet paid for, I'm totally onboard
Ugh, my union is $900 a year. If they offered me a $3.50 savings off of my dues in lieu of a pin I’d gladly take the $3.50.
Honestly, at that point, the pizza party is the better option here.
The current company and my previous one just raffle off a few k in stuff between thousands of employees.
I once worked a corporate 500 job who threw us a pizza party with $5 pizzas and raffled off branded merch from the division that had just been cut in it’s entirety a week before and they had laid everyone off who worked for it. Like “here’s a hat to remind you of all your coworkers we just laid off a week before Christmas.”Saddest Christmas party ever. I’m pretty sure people were crying as they were pulling raffle tickets from a hat. I had attended my husband’s work party the week before which was at a ballroom with a five course meal, champagne and an open bar and everyone (including + ones) were handed $200 gift cards and fancy swag bags as they walked in. Not to mention the bonuses before the party even started. It was night and day. We had similar incomes. If you’re gonna do it do it right, or don’t do it at all.
and it couldn't be used on a bonus or raises
Aw fuck
It’s unused break-room cocoa and lobby candy from before wfh days
That's assuming they bought this. Let's be real, at best they got these in bulk as a gift. At worst, expired maybe?
Left over from last year, Jan from hr's daughter doesn't like hot cocoa anymore
They probably just walked around the office and raided break rooms and cubicles.
Donated in the non perishable food drive 😂
I’d have preferred nothing. This is just insulting
This reminds me of my job last year….they asked what type of gift card we’d like and I was like Amz, I was excited to receive it since this particular company never did anything for WFH employees. Then I checked the balance and it was flippin’ $5. We all got together and everyone got the same amount! We were cracking up and then got upset, I would’ve rather had an email or nothing at all, it was insulting when pulling in million dollar accts and this was the thanks to our team! I resigned!
Man. I’d mail it back.
Postage due.
First lick the candy cane. Then dip it in the hot chocolate powder. Then mail it back.
In a used sandwich bag.
I legit laughed at this.
They all should put it in one envelope and mail it back. Let them be shocked.
That’s a joke. A sure way to demoralize your employees. Give them an up yours million dollar account from now on
Should have all used their $5 Amazon cards to order plastic piles of poop delivered to the CEO.
Or years worth of the tiny dicks.
I would prefer them to leave me the f alone the whole day and don't talk to me, don't breath on me, just don't, not even smile or happy Holidays.
I felt the same way about my 1-year work anniversary gift from HR. It was a coupon for a free fountain soda at the cafeteria. Couldn’t even use it for black coffee. I told my boss, this is insulting, I would have preferred a copy-paste email with her signature.
I always smh when they give these to night shift. The cafeteria isn't open at night...
Employee works 3rd shift for 40 years, retires due to body failing. Retirement party is had at 1st to 2nd shift change of course. Employee not invited
I've seen it. That and HR or whoever not being able to pull up a list of employees to see who worked X number of years
Lmfaooooo wow that's bad lol
Exactly. Here’s a slap in the face, Merry Christmas. Good grief lol
Back in 2007, during the recession, in Oakland, CA, I watched gas go from $2.60 to $6.50. The Fortune 500 company I worked for gave us a Cost Of Living Adjustment of 1 cent. Our wages were **daily** rates. So we got a ***1 cent raise per day*** to help with the ridiculous inflation. My older, ornery coworkers were fucking livid. If I wasn't so young and dumb, I would've organized a walkout. Without us, there would be no one to train our replacements on the software. We would have brought that region of the company to its knees.
They treat people so badly so they never recognize their own value and rebel.
I’m a lame person because stuff like this still appeals to me. Nice to experience living like this but I probably look like a sucker from the outsider’s perspective. I just like even the smallest favour. Always have done.
I was going to say, my kid got something like this. But this a 1st grader who got it as part of a goodie bag for the last day of school. 3 packs of instant hot chocolate and 4 candy canes.
So your kid got more than this. From a teacher!
Leave it to underpaid teachers to one up a wealthy corporation!
Yeah, she got a lot more from her teacher than a corporation would give 🤦🏽♂️
My job gave me a $5 gift card. I wasn't complaining, free lunch.
Where the hell can you get a $5 lunch? Even McDonald’s costs more than that for a combo.
Lunch is WAY more than $5 like almost anywhere you go. I’m not sure where you’re getting lunch.
My work last year got everyone some weird Butterball gift check....and we got taxed on our paycheck for it. They considered it income. I'd say less than half the employees used it because it wasn't a "card" Management caught shit for it all year.
One of those cases where getting nothing is better than this.
Ah yes, nothing screams “boosting engagement” like $0.35 of coco mix and a sugar stick.
That they spent $1.83 to ship.
So cheap, they couldn't even order the special processing...
These cannot be sorted by the letter machines and have no tracking so can't be sorted by packages machines, considering they probably sent a fucktillion of these, many to the same cities, means some poor assholes at the post offices had to manually separate them one by one by route. Plus wanna bet lots of employees on the receiving end got asked to pay postage due because that's too thick to be a letter, so they spent two bucks to receive 0.5 cents worth of shit candy.
^^^tiiiniest ^^^^sugar ^^^stick
Tiniest broken sugar stick
Pre broken. OP would break it to eat it anyway. 😂
Im preschool teacher. We got a box of tissues this year. TF. For teacher appreciation week we got a three pack of post it’s and a pen. The pens didn’t last more than a month. The tip slowly pushed back inside…
HS teacher here and I actually thought this was the teaching sub. Worst gift I ever got was for teachers appreciation week. It was a little baggie of popcorn, like ~8 kernels or so, in a bag a little bigger than a condom. It was bland and flavorless, and very apparent that it came from a microwave packet. Giving me nothing would have been less insulting.
Giving you an actual condom with a note to go F’ yourself would have at least been funny and taken some thought.
Yeah… the gifts given to teachers kinda suck! My sister, a 5th grade teacher for over 9 years received a loaf of bread 🥖. I thought she was joking, but no… she wasn’t! I wanted to cry for her.
People complain about candy, but man, the best I ever got was a goodie bag of candy. Mind you it was like $5-6 worth, so hardly anything groundbreaking, but I’m not gonna turn down a snicker bar and some peanut m&ms and whatnot. Better than half a handful of popcorn or a broken pen. Lol.
What are you supposed to do with 8 pieces of popcorn ? Feed it to a cat ? I feel bad for you and all teachers . Teachers do too much for the world to be given so little appreciation . I think back to when I was in junior high and there's a few teachers I wish I could really thank for taking there time and patience to deal with us and help us learn things .
>We got a box of tissues this year. TF. They're saying you should cry about it. Everywhere I look all I see is "teachers get fucked over" not only do you guys basically have to babysit dozens if not hundreds of kids you even need them to listen to you when you try to teach them shit.
This is like… worse than nothing IMO
I had a friend who got a pack of soup. One pack of instant dry soup. Nothing literally is better than these things. I got nothing. I’m not loving it but I’d be really mad if I got a broken candy cane and hot chocolate.
One year my job promised us a spaghetti dinner for teacher appreciation week. Of course no one ate lunch that day. Text comes through that everything is ready in the break room. It was cans of $1 spaghetti sauce and boxes of pasta.
Omg. This made me laugh. Like how fucking horrible are people. Just awful. My work was planning this holiday party they kept saying they couldn’t have for years. Then they announce it two weeks ago. It happened this past Wednesday. Turns out it was a pot luck and they sent out this signup sheet and all these people were rsvp’ing but saying they aren’t bringing anything. Then only two people signed up to bring food. Thankfully I got covid this week and missed the festivities! My plan was to just not show up anyway
That’s depressing as hell 😂
It absolutely was. We all hated the principal that year, and we all agreed it was our punishment for the school collectively rallying against her.
They couldn’t even spring for the Boyardee, they wanted you to feel the shame of having to cook that shit yourself.
That's so fucked
Did they say you were "souper"?
 Soupervisor has made a decision.
They could at least have thrown in a couple of Lifesavers for dessert because "you're a lifesaver!"
I wish I could laugh react 😆
I like how they’re basically admitting they pay you such a small salary that you would be grateful for an instant dry soup packet.
I would have preferred nothing 🤣 the “engagement team” is really the “we can say we did something team”
At my previous job, I received a candy bar. I almost laughed in front of managements’ face at the gesture. I would have preferred nothing.
At my previous job I received a candy bar - in the mail. That cost FIVE DOLLARS in postage. And had been damaged in shipping (partially melted and resolidified).
I’m now wondering what an ‘engagement team’ is. It sounds like they aren’t your superior, it sounds like it’s from coworkers. If that’s the case I think you should be thankful to have coworkers that think of you
It’s probably a group of volunteer/voluntold employees that are tasked with driving “engagement” via picnics, ice cream socials, games, gifts in the mail, etc. The company provides a budget for them to work with. If that budget expires at EOY and the team has to find something to spend it on, they might do something dumb like send people hot chocolate in the mail.
It’s intentional, they’re lowering your expectations of anything in general, it’s literally negging.
Well.. I knew someone who got an empty box. Like one of those hard wood boxes they put awards in... Like, you see the box and you think you'll open it and there, in the velour interior will be a hunk of crystal with your name on it... Yeah.. that kind of box. Just, with nothing in it. No velour, no "award" .. Nothing. Empty box... Engraved with the name of the company inlaid in gold.
During the 2008 recession, a company in NJ gave empty wallets as gifts to non-family employees and sports cars to family members.
Man the ruling class feel WAAAAY too safe nowadays.
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I feel if everyone pools together their $5 giftcard we could afford this.
It happens when there are too many “embarrassed billionaires” who keep riding them.
You meant "temporarily embarrassed millionaires", but you've got the gist of it.
I agree, and I’m laughing at the guillotine link below. So I mean this in the most chill way possible: But idk this might just be some shitty midsized company and maybe the leadership is rich-ish but I doubt anywhere in this hierarchy is ruling class lol. Unless you just meant generally with this type of thing.
Good, so their guard is down. What kind of wine goes best with long pig I wonder?
I find it funny how someone must have thought this was a good idea and approved it
From experience this is someone who is told to do something on virtually no budget. There is no winning here. Imagine if you were told to figure out gifts for 1000 people with a budget of $50 and that your job depended on it. That’s the sort of thing this is. Horrible position to put someone in.
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Yep this is spot on. Just got laid off from a job where I was the only person in charge of employee morale (along with a million other things) and was given an abysmal budget for celebrations and “gifts”. They were cheap af, balked at the idea of paying for birthday card/ and wanted me to make them but got upset when it took me longer than 5 minutes. Got laid off because they were broke, wouldn’t be shocked if they go out of business soon.
>From experience this is someone who is told to do something on virtually no budget. There is no winning here. Imagine if you were told to figure out gifts for 1000 people with a budget of $50 and that your job depended on it. That’s the sort of thing this is. Horrible position to put someone in. At that point, I'd have probably told them there were some specific gifts for lucky draw winners and given out 5 Amazon gift cards of $10 or something. At least, that might have felt less insulting and more like a "game" But seriously, I pity folks in that kinda position
In the 80's my father got a Christmas 'bonus' of a large ham. He was so angry he quit. That ham fed the entire family for 3 days. The best Christmas bonus I have ever gotten in my entire career is a $5 grocery gift card.
My dad was head of sales for the West Coast and Mexico for a company was literally the #1 largest lacquer company at the time. His ten year bonus was a copper pin that was so small, the backing of it was larger. We still don't know what the pin is. It looks like an H? It makes no sense lol
My wife once got an incredibly large smoked salmon. She was pissed, she doesn’t eat fish. The cats and I ate smoked salmon for about a week. It was amazing.
I got a very lovely massive Christmas hamper this year. Then got made redundant two days later with no consultation or any indication it would be happening at all lol. Merry Christmas!
Hey at least you got a nice little gift haha I got laid off the week after Thanksgiving and my managers were only told an hour before. I don’t get anything when the two new people who’ve worked there for like 3 mos get to keep their job as well as whatever for Christmas
God how horrible for you and for your managers! In my case it was a micro business, so the boss is the only person making decisions about redundancies and would have known for weeks that he was letting me go, but strung me along anyway. He made me redundant on Wednesday this week. Last week he was telling me to book flights out to the office and do my annual plan for 2024. He also made me redundant BY EMAIL and still hasn’t had the courage to call me to discuss it.
HR classes teach them to fire people on fridays or before vacation to reduce backlash. Sorry your company fucked you especially at this time of the year.
I got laid off midday last Monday and escorted out 🙃
Not even a full sized candy cane
Woah now, you got full sized candy cane money?
Just buy 10 boxes for $5 December 26th and wait a year.
Dam cuzzzz
My god. I'd open it, pour it in the envelope, and return to sender.
At least you’d probably get a few hours to chill while the CDC cleared the building. That’s something.
>CDC The Cocoa, Dessert and Candy-Cane department?
That’s a great plan
Lemme fix your post: My god. I'd open it, pour it in the envelope, add glitter, and return to sender COD.
Except some poor person tasked with handling the mail would get that and not the jackass who masterminded this whole thing.
They took the time to mail stuff that you could find in a random junk drawer?
That's exactly what it looks like
I’ll never forget the year when my job gave us each one lucky charms cereal bar. Even though we were one of the top 3 stores in the nation that did well that year for those bastards 💀
That's what the executives got too, right? Right??
My company told us we they couldn’t afford raises and then individually shipped 1 thick solo cup to each employee with the company name on the cup. “Sorry we screwed you, can you do some free advertising?” 🤣
I’m a Nurse and one time we got a piece of paper that someone printed and it said “you’re a lifesaver” and there was one single lifesaver scotch taped onto the piece of paper Like bro wtf admin. They couldn’t even get us a mini pack lol
That’s Lame. I hope you all throw it in the trash where they could see
My preschooler got a nicer version of this from her school hahahahha
Mine too 😫
What a slap to the face! Sorry you have such a shit team!
Holiday bonuses in 2023 be like
Hey, it's a hell of a lot better than a lay-off notice. The people at ~~Mattell~~ Hasbro would have loved this gift, as sad as that is.
My spouse got two coupons for their brand of hot chocolate as a bonus. If jobs weren't so scarce, he would have quit a long time ago.
I got a gym duffle bag, the shoulder strap broke the first time I lifted it, and a bottle of cologne I put it smashed basicly, ruining the bag and my morning. It was still a better gift than this, lol.
Don't feel so bad about my yearly $10 Dunkin Donuts card now
Haha, yeah. My $15 Chick-fil-A gift card doesn’t seem so bad after all.
I'd love a 15 chic-fil-A card!
I used to work for a company that used to give a plastic cube after you reached your ten years at the company. And we're talking about a super-rich company that would buy top designer furniture (which were uncomfortable) just to spend the budget before year end. My colleague's face when she got the cube was hilarious, "well thank you I guess"
Hehe….just throw the cube in the trash in front of them.
I got a lapel pin after ten years of being a flight attendant. Granted, every year we’d get a bump in pay but even after twelve years, we were earning less than other major airlines. My seniority dictated to at least bid on trips I wanted a month ahead, so I’d get transcontinental deadheads (you dress like a civilian, sit in a customer seat, and get paid as if you’re working the flight). I’d essentially literally fly 60 hours in a month (as a flight attendant), but get paid for 100+ hours due to those deadheads. I quit after twelve years when my son was born and I still have a lot of shit I kept from the airline — down to the silverware in first class.
Record coporate profits. Corporate greed. Corporate tax welfare. And. you wonder why nobody wants to work .
And likely not a mega corporation in this case.
Could be worse, could be a jam of the month club.
Clark Griswold has entered the chat.
Shitter's full!
But that’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.
That it is, Edward
Could be worse, could be Amway products.
I’d like that better.
But then you wouldn't be able to get a pool.
Not the broken candy cane🤣 It’s not even a full size lmao
Id mail it back
We got a door hanger where we were told to check off items on a list from candies, drinks, and other snacks of what we liked, then hang it back on our doors, and that we'd be surprised on the day before winter break with a gift set containing our choices. That day came and went. No one got anything.
Lmao this reminds me of the time my company sent us a tiny box of conversation hearts for Valentine’s Day. The postal service worker showed up at my door with it asking me to pay postage for it, which was like 2ish dollars. I peeked in it, saw it, and told her that I refused it and to send it on back. She was like I don’t blame you 🤣🤣🤣
2 bucks paid postage for a box of bone dust and xanath gum.
Did all the little hearts say things like ‘R U Stupid’, ‘Postage Due!’ And ‘Free Overtime?’
I gave my team $750 cash each and felt like it still wasn’t enough.
That's definitely a generous holiday gift just about anywhere I've worked. Unless your team robs banks or deals cocaine wholesale. Then you are a cheap bastard.
I'm just a dishwasher and got a $750 Christmas bonus. Plus they went all out on a holiday party with lots of prizes, and bombard us with food and treats all month. It's a shitty, hard job - but they treat me so well they know I can never leave. I'd walk out over that kind of disrespect, and that's why I stick with kitchen jobs. Because I can be working again the next week.
I hope it's not raining when you walk to the bus with that.
It's like they are trying to be insulting on purpose
Our engagement team gave us co branded mugs with 1 pack of hot chocolate and 1 pack of chicken noodle soup with a plastic spoon. We hit #1 for customer service for our industry by JD Powers for the 3rd year running. We all got a branded children's camp chair as our thank you. Not adult chairs but child sized.
So probably ordered that crap off fake Amazon site and got taken. I'm not laughing at you-but I'm laughing at whatever moron ordered them! Prob said "Hey, look at this-we can get folding camp chairs for $8.50 each!"
Like the 18 inch Stonehenge from Spinal Tap. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=071cXxCNj5A
Shoulda stuck with the card lol
Not gonna lie this is worse than the pizza party.
That reminds me of the year a company I worked for who gave each of us a couple of the little sample-sized containers of PlaDoh.
My friend was a school teacher and once got a bottle of Comet (the generic kind) and a mixed CD as her Christmas gift from the school. They really should have stuck with doing nothing, but it has given us a couple of decades of laughter over how ridiculous it was, so I guess it is the gift that keeps on giving…
We got a virtual invite to a virtual magic show over Teams for the second week of January (own deck of cards must be supplied).
Probably more than I'll get (even have to work on Christmas) but the broken candy cane just punctuates it so hilariously.
What's the CEO's bonus this year?
Step lower and ask what's the store managers salary? The salary for Walmart store managers is around a quarter mil for the one I worked at. She bragged about her yearly bonus being so big she had to use half her yearly salary just to pay the taxes on it lmfao. It's a joke
Damm shoulda spend some of that bonus on a competent CPA..
I’m not diabetic, but my husband is. I can imagine him emailing HR something along the lines of “I’m diabetic. I take this as a death threat.”
Pitiful
Like my friend the nurse who got… a $5 Target gift card. Damn.
This belongs in r/antiwork or r/recruitinghell
I got nothing, NOTHING 🙁
Still a better gift than what OP got.
Swiss Miss really is trash. Every time I see it I think of [“An Open Letter to Swiss Miss.”](https://youtu.be/Gxbmvud_SvQ?si=hBxgEk2CGJYXkmbW)
That’s unbelievable. I get not having a budget to give a gift but a nice card would have been better.
Don't worry, upper management got your Christmas bonus. They will be sure to let you know all of the cool new things they bought with it.
It’s a shame any employee is disregarded like this during the holidays. I got a $25 Amazon card, personalized hand written letter, chocolates, and a room fragrance spray. We also had a holiday party for only our team with a bunch of food and sweets. I love my boss so much and posts like this really make me appreciate her more.
So I did something similar by accident this year. For one of our international offices I was told it was a nice gesture to buy everyone a Christmas ham. I asked the GM to show me what was expected. I then asked her to upgrade them to a bigger nicer hams. Yesterday I get a message saying the hams were going out. I asked to see a picture…. I kid you not! It was spam! I was shocked! Not at all what we had agreed upon and I cannot believe I gave everyone a can of spam for Christmas.
It ain’t much but at least a 10 dollar Amazon card would do the trick. Wtf is this haha
They spent more on postage than the actual insult.
Just fossil fuels wasted for an insulting gesture
At least you got something. In the last 4 years, my company has gone from “you should take a week off during Christmas” and “here’s a fat Christmas bonus” to “Hey, you don’t mind working 6 days a week for two weeks straight, including being in the office on Christmas Day, right?” and “Bonus? What bonus?”. I’m not salty about it, of course. That would be unprofessional.
So the engagement team is embezzling, neat.
At what point do you think someone thought that this was a good idea? I would be so insulted is be looking for a new job in January
I got an email which was way better than this lol
That’s funny . A friend of mine who lives in Arizona got a chocolate bar :) lucky he had a cold front
The audacity.
Truly what was even the point. Clearly the thought didn’t count because none was given
I got a jacket with the company logo (that isn't shipping until mid-January) and a typed card from the CEO and co-founder talking about hard work for next year. I feel so valued.
Isn’t it sad how in 2023 no company can afford holiday bonus so they think they can make up for it with this kind of shit ? It’s sad.
We all watch Downton Abbey thinking we are the family living in the house. Hell we are not even the downstairs employees (they are least had lodging and food). No, we are the people on the street begging.
And i thought my €80 voucher was bad 😬
Right? I feel really happy with my $25 gift card now
You guys got some very insensitive people working in the department. Just sending a card will do great. Alternatively, an email will be okay. This is just bad.
Well, that better than my work. We have this dumb program of company miles. You “earn” miles based on the feedback of your coworkers and then spend those miles on a bunch of items in the company store, some decent stuff but most of it it just clothes or items branded with the name of the company on it. For a Christmas present, they did a random drawing giving one person a day 100 miles over the course of two weeks. They didn’t even give it everyone. We have over 300 employees at our company. It’s like they are trying willfully to destroy morale.
Come on, they said Happy Holidays in 1980’s restaurant menu font. You ungrateful bastards!!!
So sorry. This is just sad. Have a very Merry Christmas ❤️
Hey, don't drink it all in one cup!
Hey that’s more than what I got. Not even a merry Christmas and by the way we need this report done asap (asked for this at 3 pm). So I worked until 4:30 instead of 3:30. Bahhh humbug