• Chozo@fedia.io
    763·
    25 days ago

    I got $100 and a video from a bunch of dead-eyed execs I’ve never seen before in my entire life thanking me for all the hard work that I do. I’d almost have rather just gotten nothing at all.

        • JoeBigelow@lemmy.caEnglish
          6·
          25 days ago

          No he doesn’t want it, so you me and the other guy can split. $30 is $30 bucks as far as I care, turn it into a bag of weed.

        • Steak@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          25 days ago

          I’ll split it 50/50/50 with you guys that way we all get a little more

    • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      the video is so funny to me. showing a canned response to an employee they’ve never met has me in hysterics

      • Chozo@fedia.io
        6·
        25 days ago

        It was so eerily dystopian. Telling me how much they appreciate me and how valued I am as an employee, as their eyes trail from side to side while they read the prompter.

        • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          25 days ago

          suits buy into the corpo crap so hard

          it’s just amazing that they can convince themselves into thinking that a video like that would make your day

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      My direct manager gives out lottery scratch-off tickets at the winter holiday party. Last year I won $5.

      • Aztechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        25 days ago

        This is a classic tactic cause you can scan them without scratching them at the store and filter out any actual winners and just leave people with essentially nothing.

        When I worked as a cashier there was a real estate agent who bought scratchers all the time and did exactly this. If one of them won more than like 50 bucks he cashed it and took all the worthless/low value ones. Then all his clients would get them in the mail for Xmas.

        • janNatan@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          25 days ago

          What? That’s not how a lottery ticket machine works. Part of the front has to be scratched off to determine if it is a winner, even with the machine. I know, because I remember having to scratch this part off myself for customers redeeming tickets back when I sold them. (The part the machine needed was along the edge, and many didn’t scratch there.) (This is specific to Tennessee, but I doubt any state used a system where you can tell if it’s a winner without anything being scratched.)

  • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    731·
    25 days ago

    Former job, I had to be the bearer of bad news to a team of 10+ employees that they all were not getting bonuses and no raises. I really fought upper management went directly to the CEO, who by the way all did get bonuses/raises. I got a raise and bonus as well probably to keep me complacent. This was one of our better profit years, so it made absolutely no sense to do a freeze.

    So I decided since I couldn’t get anyone above to reason. I instead told my team it was bullshit and exactly why in each of there reviews, even though I was given a script and explicitly told not tell them more than that. I told them that they should start looking for a new jobs and I’ll help anyway I could. Told them honestly that this was probably a tactic to push some of them out without firing them and replace them with lower wage workers, I wasn’t told that but I knew.

    Worst year of my life. I left as quickly as I could myself. When I left they offered me a significant raise to stay, they were literal villains so I obviously said no.

    Some of my team unfortunately stuck it out and got fired over petty shit months after I left. 2 years later they were all gone and replaced with low wage college interns. I hated myself because I was their shield for over 10 years and finally lost, as soon as I was gone they had no one to fight for them.

    I don’t know if there is a moral to this story, the bad guys technically won.

    Guess a take away is unless your company is struggling and the management also takes cuts or freezes, no one below them should. Don’t stay.

      • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        25 days ago

        Thanks, this helps to hear. Still eats me up inside. Unfortunately sometimes there is not always a reward for being good other than just not causing more pain.

        • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          6·
          25 days ago

          You did everything you could in a shitty situation that you were powerless to fix; how does this weigh on your conscience?

          If anything, I could see you holding on to rage that you were forced into this position. If that’s the case, then seek a psychologist who practices acceptance based therapy. It will really help you.

          Regardless, I would wager none of your former teammates blame you for what happened. It’s clear from what little you have shared that you had their back the whole way.

          Integrity like that is rare.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    432·
    25 days ago

    Eh, Clark was rich, even by the standards of the time. He had a posh executive position. He was easily in the top 10%, probably more like the top 5%. You saw what kind of neighbors he had. He was well off enough that he was going to spend his entire annual bonus on a swimming pool in a place that snows half the year.

    • galactic_chicken@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      203·
      25 days ago

      Oh, boy. So much wrong here. First off, I live in the Chicago suburbs. Clearly you don’t. Plenty of people have swimming pools “in a place that snows half the year” (note: it doesn’t). These are middle class people. You don’t need to be wealthy to own a pool, and the fact that we actually have all four seasons here is irrelevant to the cost.

      Second, who are his wealthy neighbors? Todd and Margo? They’re clearly yuppie wannabe snobs. They act rich, but that’s the joke. They’re really no better off than THEIR neighbors, the Griswolds. They also have a smaller house and fewer possessions with no kids. So they can afford some expensive things like the stereo, but that doesn’t make them wealthy. And the Shirleys (Clark’s boss) don’t even live in the same neighborhood.

      Lastly, Clark isn’t using the bonus to pay for the entire swimming pool. He needs it to pay for the deposit. He specifically says he doesn’t have enough in his account to cover it otherwise. The Griswolds have a “big” house (even that is debatable), but otherwise don’t have a lavish lifestyle. Someone in the top 5% who isn’t a spendthrift wouldn’t be kiting checks to pay for a pool.

      So sure, the Griswolds are upper middle class. But they’re not rich.

  • leadore@lemmy.worldEnglish
    292·
    25 days ago

    More accurate caption: Someone saw a movie about some people who expected a bonus and didn’t get one. And from that they got the weird idea that most people in the 80’s got bonuses.

    I don’t know what movie that’s from, but sorry to tell you as someone who was there: No, most people in most jobs didn’t get bonuses in the 80’s or any other time. It was the same as today–only certain kinds of management types or financial sector types got bonuses. I’ve had some pretty decent jobs and never got a bonus and no one thought they’d get one.

  • Screen_Shatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    25 days ago

    Bonuses are typically tied in as a salary expectation. If you have a job good enough that you expect a bonus then its dictated in the terms of your employment. Its usually some amount like 10-15% of your salary based on performance review along with a multiplier for the company’s overall performance. Companies use this as incentive while giving dirt annual raises. Not getting a bonus when its expected as part of your salary is definitely getting the shaft. Clark has every reason to be pissed.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      25 days ago

      This is why I never count the bonus as salary. More and more companies are shafting their employees like that.

      My GF’s bonus is tied to something she has no control over, and the company uses the bonus to justify a lower salary. Fuck that noise.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      Yeah but a lot of ‘good’ jobs these days don’t even have bonuses. There has been a change since the 80s with this practice in a lot of industries.