“Unbelievable But True: 67 Outrageous Work Perks That Left Employees Speechless!”
Worked crazy OT for a month to get vital computer security updates done (every computer had to be touched individually). Those of us who were salaried were promised we would be taken care of for the 20+ hours of overtime each week.
Hourly people earned time and a half.
Salaried people got a company embroidered baseball cap as a ‘thank you’. Oh, and so did the hourly people.
I made it to the five year mark working a laborious job for little pay, after 08 recession “you’re lucky to have a job” phase. They acknowledged my milestone with a 5 dollar Starbucks gift card. At that point why bother?
And I can’t count how many “thanks for working the holidays again, there is pizza in the break room!” (Btw, no pizza left by the time I was able to make it).
Employee of the month got lunch with the CEO. The CEO was a total unlikable k**b, who forced employees to socialize with them. You would never nominate someone you actually liked for this ‘award’.
I was in my mid-30’s at a large nonprofit and HR made us complete a questionnaire like: What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite candy? and we were told this would inform the way they would reward us.
I just wrote “money” as my favorite everything. Pay me in money, please. What am I, five?
After 2 years of working there, they announced with great fanfare that we were generously being given two paid sick days per year. I later discovered that they were just complying with recently passed legislation here in Quebec, Canada.
Staff appreciation BBQ where all the staff was invited, but we still had to cook for all 300 employees. Everyone got to go but the kitchen staff and they never made it up to us.
A vacation to a lake in Kansas (didn’t know there were lakes there) where I would cook for my bosses friends in a waterski tournament. That guy hated me forever for calling him out and declining the vacation.
25 vacation days.
This is not a “benefit” this is the f*****g law in my country. Trying to imply that you’re giving me vacation time out of the goodness of your heart while in fact you’re obliged by law to do that is stupid.
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