30 Cheap And Insulting Things That People Received As Holiday Bonuses At Work
A year-end bonus (sometimes called a Christmas bonus) is a reward paid to an employee during the Holiday season. In many companies, it's tied to performance metrics, and the amount can vary depending on whether certain milestones are met. Year-end bonuses are usually made up of lump-sum payments used to acknowledge the individual for hard work and dedication. Compared to the recipient's salary, these monetary encouragements can be quite substantial. Or as we are about to learn, a real spit in the face.
I guess I wouldn't surprise anyone if I said bosses can be really cheap. But some of them are such scrooges, they see every dollar that goes into employee motivation and retention budgets as losses. So when the opportunity arises, these tight-a**es pay themselves back and leave everyone else with just the crumbs. Continue scrolling to check out the worst Holiday bonuses we could find. Let them serve as a reminder that staff always have to be treated with respect. Screw those who forget that.
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Take the card back and tell your boss you don't want it and want to be reimbursed for the money taken for such a generous gift
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In recent years, many companies have moved away from cash bonuses: according to a survey from Bank of America, only 29% of employers planned to offer cash bonuses in 2019.
But even if companies do offer cash bonuses, they also vary widely in how they award them and how much they give. Some businesses choose to give an employee a percentage of their salary, whereas others offer a small, flat amount, like $50 or $100, sometimes varying based on the business's performance that year. Some employers base their bonuses on how long an employee has been with the company or their yearly performance.
"I pay my bonuses out based on two factors: the employee's overall performance review and the number of years the individual has been with the business," said Laura Fuentes, operator at Infinity Dish. "I start annual bonuses at a minimum of 2% for the first year and max out at 6%."
My Dad, Who Has Worked For His Employer For 22 Years, Sharing His “Thank You” For The Holidays. They Pay Him Less Than $18/Hr. Doing This Is More Insulting Than Doing Nothing At All
My Mother’s Completely Unironic “Christmas Bonus” This Year
Recalling When Air Canada Gave My Partner A Plastic Christmas Ornament Instead Of A Christmas Bonus
I was the warehouse manager at a firm and one year one of the Directors asked me if a £50 note in a card would be ok for each of the staff. I said great. One of the drivers, screwed up the note and threw it on my desk, saying it was an insult! I took it to the Director and apologised , he said it's fine we'll spend it on drinks at a staff night out. Those drinks tasted all the better, knowing the jerk wasn't included.
"In some industries, such as finance, bonuses are closely tied to employee performance and can vary dramatically within and between teams," Andrew Schrage, CEO of Money Crashers, explained.
"Elsewhere, all employees of the same rank receive the same bonus. Amounts can vary from token-sized (think $25 or $50 gift cards) to amounts greater than the employee's total regular compensation. The latter is more common among highly compensated executives and financial professionals."
Finally Got Our Christmas Bonus For A Year Of Our Hard Work On The Front Lines During The Pandemic. 7 Pieces Of Stale Candy And A Card Full Of Empty Platitudes
The card reads: "Thank you for making us a lot richer during the pandemic with your labor, sorry we're going to keep it all for ourselves because we're greedy assholes".
What We Got After A Year Of Mandatory 50 Hour Weeks And 0 Holidays Off
Helped My Company’s Accounting Team Get $190m In Profits Sorted This Year. Been With Them For 5+ Years. My Christmas Bonus This Year: (Not Pictured The Unsigned Card With CEO’s Signature As A Stamp)
However, companies should understand that paying their employees a year-end bonus isn't charity. The biggest benefit is that it makes people happy. It shows workers that their bosses are thinking about them and consider them valuable to the company.
Bonuses also ensure that employees are rewarded for their hard work, which decreases the possibility of burnout. Happier employees are simply more likely to stay with the company over the long term, decreasing costly turnover.
This Definitely Makes Up For The Toxic Work Environment And Forced Overtime!!!!
Thanks For The Rubber Band And Single Starburst But Can We Just Have A Reasonable Work Load Instead?
My Job Told Us No Christmas Bonus Yesterday And We Got This In An Email Today. (I Work For A Billion Dollar Company) My CEO Sent The Email, He Made 1.4 Million In 2020 As CFO
When employees are satisfied with their job, they're often more engaged and productive. A 2019 study by Oxford University found that happy workers are 13% more productive, and a good way to make them content is through extra compensation and other rewards.
Besides, if bosses choose to tie bonuses into yearly performance or goals, employees can be highly incentivized to hit those goals throughout the year if the payback seems worth it.
Management Gets Bonus Checks, While Regular Employees Get Water Bottles
Thank You Bonus For All Employees From The Owner
its hard to see from the wrap-around but it continues..."out work everyone and die broke anyway"
Here At [redacted], Your Christmas Bonus Is The Chance To Win A Free Vacation For Your S**tty Managers If You Work Yourself Close Enough To Death
![Here At [redacted], Your Christmas Bonus Is The Chance To Win A Free Vacation For Your S**tty Managers If You Work Yourself Close Enough To Death](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/61b1d93ba661e_wa1i9Bp__700.jpg "Here At [redacted], Your Christmas Bonus Is The Chance To Win A Free Vacation For Your S**tty Managers If You Work Yourself Close Enough To Death")
Bonus? No. Hazard Pay? No. Here’s A Cheap Chinese Snowflake For Working During A Global Pandemic Without Hazard Pay! And Thru The Holidays! Stay Strong!!
My Sister Got This From Work This Week. It’s Honestly Just Offensive
Our Christmas Bonus In One Of The Companies Most Profitable Years. What Is That, Like $5 Total?
I would rather have no bonus instead of what looks like a packed lunch
My Christmas Gift From My Boss. Fortune 500 Company. No Christmas Bonus, Post It Notes, 2 Pieces Of Chocolate, Pen, Jeans One Day
Wow, looks like dollar store items in a bag then broken up to make a small gift bags with
My Girlfriends Boss Handed This To Her In Her Office Saying, "These Are Being Handed Out From The Company." I'm Not Sure If This Is A Christmas Gift. What Do You All Think?
Our Holiday “Bonus”. Yes That’s A $15 Off Coupon For A Butterball Turkey
I guess you’ll have to come up with the rest, because 15 bucks isn’t gonna cover a butterball turkey
The Warehouse I Work At Had Us All Come In On Thanksgiving And This Is How They Showed Us Their Gratitude
“Record Year” But No Raise Or Bonus. The Box Lunch Is The Covid Version Of A Pizza Party And A High Five
My Jobs Thanksgiving Gift To Us. 7 Years With Foodlion And This Is How They Appreciate Us, With Kid Snacks
Christmas Bonus? Nope, Target Just Prints And Snail Mails Monopoly Money To Your House Now
Exchanged for an.item in that price range. From the company shop. So you can't even use it to take some off the price of a more expensive item? I bet you also don't get the change. This is some olden days company scrip bull.
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How's this for a kick in the teeth. In my state they have declared Christmas day NOT a public holiday. So the people who have to work Christmas day don't get paid public holiday penalty rates. The only state in Australia to make that poor decision.
WTF?
Free money for your political representative's corporate pimps. Wait, I mean sponsors. No...no, no, no, I mean constituents. Sorry.
That’s BS, man! I’m sure they’re going to get amazing amounts of backlash about it.
Wow, I would have thought that would be one public holiday that was national. I thought it was silly that WA didn't honour the AFL grand final eve public holiday, but I can understand it.
Wow. That's illegal here in the US. sorry AU has done that.
What state is that, Foxxy?
South Australia.
Sounds like South Australia. When Christmas is on a Saturday there the following Monday is a public holiday.
Wow. That's unbelievably wrong making it not a public holiday!
Is that legal there?
Yup, it was a decision made by our state government. They have made the following Monday a public holiday instead. It's ridiculous coz the people working Christmas day miss out on their family/religious time etc with no proper compensation for their sacrifice of missing out. I know 2 people that are rostered to work on Christmas day and 1 of them is going to take a sickie. Which I don't blame them. I would too, I wouldn't work on Christmas day for normal work rates.
Everybody should call in sick. Like everybody. Even the managers. Let the owners run their businesses on effin Christmas day. Ridiculous.
Wish it was that easy but unfortunately that would include people in the medical field. It would put too many lives at risk. It's not every day citizens fault so they shouldn't have to go without medical care. It's a catch 22. Medical staff shouldn't have to work for normal rates but we shouldn't put lives at risk either.
Yeah, I kind of meant people that haven't worked Christmas days before this new rule. Medical staff always work 365, like other essential workers eg energy etc. Hopefully the medical staff will get the holiday rate for the Monday after as they declared that day a public hol. Either way, the world is spinning out of control where wealth distribution is concerned and I'm expecting world-wide riots in the not so distant future. It's like we are moving back to the mediaval times and the majority of people will be peasants and slaves. I feel like crying for humanity
That is so sad!
I think receiving sweets from your direct manager is a sign of appreciation. This manager also can't do anything about the fact if a big company refuses to gratify their employees with a real Christmas bonus.
Depends. For me, I'm making much less per hour than my employees (I also get guaranteed hours and insurance, so obviously it works out to much more value). But basically I'm not making enough money to do more than bake cookies and give cards to every one of my direct reports. But several of these seem like managers who are making *considerably* more than their employees, in which case it does feel a bit icky.
Homemade cookies are great, personal
I bend over backwards for my team in the way of sweets and treats. It's all I can afford but they know I appreciate them.
Yeah. I work in a field where Christmas bonuses are not customary; if my direct supervisor gives out candy and a note, that's out of her own pocket and I appreciate it as a gesture. But I can understand how people would feel differently if they work in a field where cash bonuses are typical--or if cash bonuses are given to people above a certain level--and instead you get a baggie of candy or whatever.
Yes, we get sweets and biscuits from our manager, but it's personal. And we're public service so never going to get bonuses
Exactly. It's long gone now, but when I was a kid my dad's company (big name maker of electronics) used to throw an over the top Christmas party every year for employees' kids that had tables and tables of treats (including things like petit fours), huge displays of electric trains, costumed characters from children's shows, and Santa on a throne with age-separated piles of wrapped presents behind him (generally unique board games) which every kid could get. The offices were closed the week between Christmas and new year's, and he got a bonus check. (I don't know how much - they never shared that info with us kids). It was the extremely wealthy company that did it, not the managers from their own pockets. They stopped doing those events by the time I was 12.
For me, I would state in that case, that this is a personal gift, and choose something that is useful or appreciable to the staff.
Okay, like I get it that receiving some of these packages would be pretty sh*tty if they're being given directly by some of these huge companies to the employees. But outside of context I have to assume some of these are being given by a manager who probably makes not that much more than the employees.
EXACTLY
How's this for a kick in the teeth. In my state they have declared Christmas day NOT a public holiday. So the people who have to work Christmas day don't get paid public holiday penalty rates. The only state in Australia to make that poor decision.
WTF?
Free money for your political representative's corporate pimps. Wait, I mean sponsors. No...no, no, no, I mean constituents. Sorry.
That’s BS, man! I’m sure they’re going to get amazing amounts of backlash about it.
Wow, I would have thought that would be one public holiday that was national. I thought it was silly that WA didn't honour the AFL grand final eve public holiday, but I can understand it.
Wow. That's illegal here in the US. sorry AU has done that.
What state is that, Foxxy?
South Australia.
Sounds like South Australia. When Christmas is on a Saturday there the following Monday is a public holiday.
Wow. That's unbelievably wrong making it not a public holiday!
Is that legal there?
Yup, it was a decision made by our state government. They have made the following Monday a public holiday instead. It's ridiculous coz the people working Christmas day miss out on their family/religious time etc with no proper compensation for their sacrifice of missing out. I know 2 people that are rostered to work on Christmas day and 1 of them is going to take a sickie. Which I don't blame them. I would too, I wouldn't work on Christmas day for normal work rates.
Everybody should call in sick. Like everybody. Even the managers. Let the owners run their businesses on effin Christmas day. Ridiculous.
Wish it was that easy but unfortunately that would include people in the medical field. It would put too many lives at risk. It's not every day citizens fault so they shouldn't have to go without medical care. It's a catch 22. Medical staff shouldn't have to work for normal rates but we shouldn't put lives at risk either.
Yeah, I kind of meant people that haven't worked Christmas days before this new rule. Medical staff always work 365, like other essential workers eg energy etc. Hopefully the medical staff will get the holiday rate for the Monday after as they declared that day a public hol. Either way, the world is spinning out of control where wealth distribution is concerned and I'm expecting world-wide riots in the not so distant future. It's like we are moving back to the mediaval times and the majority of people will be peasants and slaves. I feel like crying for humanity
That is so sad!
I think receiving sweets from your direct manager is a sign of appreciation. This manager also can't do anything about the fact if a big company refuses to gratify their employees with a real Christmas bonus.
Depends. For me, I'm making much less per hour than my employees (I also get guaranteed hours and insurance, so obviously it works out to much more value). But basically I'm not making enough money to do more than bake cookies and give cards to every one of my direct reports. But several of these seem like managers who are making *considerably* more than their employees, in which case it does feel a bit icky.
Homemade cookies are great, personal
I bend over backwards for my team in the way of sweets and treats. It's all I can afford but they know I appreciate them.
Yeah. I work in a field where Christmas bonuses are not customary; if my direct supervisor gives out candy and a note, that's out of her own pocket and I appreciate it as a gesture. But I can understand how people would feel differently if they work in a field where cash bonuses are typical--or if cash bonuses are given to people above a certain level--and instead you get a baggie of candy or whatever.
Yes, we get sweets and biscuits from our manager, but it's personal. And we're public service so never going to get bonuses
Exactly. It's long gone now, but when I was a kid my dad's company (big name maker of electronics) used to throw an over the top Christmas party every year for employees' kids that had tables and tables of treats (including things like petit fours), huge displays of electric trains, costumed characters from children's shows, and Santa on a throne with age-separated piles of wrapped presents behind him (generally unique board games) which every kid could get. The offices were closed the week between Christmas and new year's, and he got a bonus check. (I don't know how much - they never shared that info with us kids). It was the extremely wealthy company that did it, not the managers from their own pockets. They stopped doing those events by the time I was 12.
For me, I would state in that case, that this is a personal gift, and choose something that is useful or appreciable to the staff.
Okay, like I get it that receiving some of these packages would be pretty sh*tty if they're being given directly by some of these huge companies to the employees. But outside of context I have to assume some of these are being given by a manager who probably makes not that much more than the employees.
EXACTLY