“Unbelievable But True: 67 Outrageous Work Perks That Left Employees Speechless!”
Corporate then kept asking everyone why don’t we use the machine and go to the coffee shop instead, and then made a big drama about how they had to remove the machine because it wasn’t profitable enough.
I worked on a team that would force us to have a pizza party like every month or every other month, but nobody wanted to pay for it. It wasn’t covered in the company’s budget, like there was no extraneous “fun” money to treat us, but they kept making us have it. So it usually ended up being “up in the air” as to who would pay for it.
Our team lead, who I’m assuming was responsible for mandating the party, made no attempts to hide his irritation at covering it the few times he did. I don’t know who paid the other times, or why we kept having them if it was such a sore spot. It wasn’t the type of company where the president would’ve given enough of a s**t to force him to do it.
I was the lowest paid (and the only PT team member with no benefits) and recognized all of the resentment around it, so I didn’t even eat anything. I didn’t feel comfortable eating.
This same team insisted we go out to lunch to welcome me as a new employee, but when the check came it sat awkwardly on the table for a few minutes before my manager made a big reluctant show of standing up to retrieve it. It was extremely awkward and uncomfortable.
I have no clue why employers force these things if there isn’t “team-building fun money” allotted in the budget. It just makes managers/directors resentful and the atmosphere strained, so nobody has any fun.
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