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40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work

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Corporate gifts have become a bit of a standard among many companies in terms of employee motivation. Whether it’s a personalized birthday gift or a gift given to everyone over the holidays, it’s definitely a great way to show the employees that their hard work and loyalty to the company have not been ignored.

Unless you’re like these folk on Reddit who themselves, or their friends and family, had to endure getting gifts that leave much—much—to be desired. It does beg the question of whether getting nothing would’ve been a better choice.

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#1

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work My mom’s boss gave everyone a pen (a really cr*ppy, normal pen) with their names printed on normal white printer paper that was scotch taped down the side of the pen. This sounds made up even to me as I type it, but it’s still in our junk drawer.

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Final score:

108points

sbj 10 months ago

I bet this was done to stop people taking pens from the stationary cupboard limiting everybody just to 1 pen each

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#2

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Not me, but one year the company my brother works for gave each employee a CD of the owner playing Christmas songs on the harmonica.

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Final score:

104points

USAFfan 10 months ago

I would choose death

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#3

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A small, nickel-sized, heart-shaped rock sent in the mail. It was supposed to represent their appreciation for the extra work during Covid. All I could think of was Charlie Brown trick or treating, “I got a rock.”

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Final score:

102points

THEVibingShark92 10 months ago

Pro life tip: Start sending your employees random stuff you find in your driveway instead of making them feel appreciated.

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It goes without saying that corporate gifts are a good idea, if done right. It was reported that 42% of businesses claim relationship management is their top reason for why they’re gifting things.

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Corporate gifts are considered a pretty effective tool for humanizing the company and thus strengthening coworker relationships.

#4

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work That year the company decided it wasn’t going to provide basic office supplies for the break room. Coffee, tea, eating utensils, napkins, nothing. That year for Christmas we all got a brown paper bags fashioned like lunches. Inside was a metal straw, cloth napkin, a child sized set of plastic cutlery that fit in a travel case, a copy paste printed piece of paper with food puns in relation to our job, and a single fun sized hundred grand candy bar. This Fortune 500 company had over a billion in raw profit that year. Oh, and the cutlery ended up getting recalled due to some terrible forever chemicals in them.

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Final score:

93points

Glen Ellyn 10 months ago

Wow. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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#5

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A letter from the CEO telling us how he is going to celebrate Christmas with his family up north to go skiing. That was all.

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Final score:

89points

Abinaash 10 months ago

Wow, boss you tell me how you enjoy your life while I work at a dead-end job... Thanks!

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#6

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Two free tickets to a cinema. The issue was that the closest cinema in that particular chain was about 800 miles away from me.

ATHYRIO , cottonbro studio / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

88points

Glen Ellyn 10 months ago

Apparently they were offering some time off? 🤔🤭

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Besides that, corporate gifts are a meaningful way to express appreciation for the hard work employees do. Not only are the employees happy to be appreciated, the company can benefit from it too with increased business growth.

And it’s not just employees—corporate gifts work just as well with business partners and inter-company relationships too.

#7

An email that only upper management would be getting the end of year bonus (sent to entire company by accident instead of just upper management). Then laid off 2 weeks into the new year.

Found out from a friend in the company a little while later that the board of directors held a vote. They keep their car allowances at the expense of a wave of layoffs, or lose their car allowances and 10-15 people get to keep their jobs. Pretty sure it was unanimous.

No matter how many times a company says you’re family, just remember that it’s the type of family that would gladly cut your throat to make sure the fat cats get to eat.

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Final score:

88points

Naz Fride 10 months ago

And your manager is NOT your friend.

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#8

Jelly of the Month membership instead of my Christmas bonus. I wanted to put a pool in the backyard but nope.

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Final score:

82points

QUINN SANE 10 months ago

That’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.

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#9

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones. I'm sure they were good and useful to some people, but I'm legally deaf.

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80points

Mike D 10 months ago

I'm speechless

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Other reasons to use corporate gifts include providing an opportunity to stand out as a company, overcome physical distance barriers (especially in light of remote work and the pandemic), and it allows everyone to focus more on the positive. That last one in turn can foster a more effective relationship if trouble arises.

#10

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work I worked at a hospital in the billing department. I got a travel thingy of hand sanitizer. Meanwhile, the IT department who shared our building got North Face puffy jackets. Jokes on them though, it was Christmas 2019 and I had hand sanitizer for COVID. 😭

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Final score:

80points

PandaJon 10 months ago

COVID for the win, Alex

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#11

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work We were told we were receiving our Christmas bonuses soon, and then we were all given a poinsettia. The poinsettia in itself wasn’t so bad, mine is actually still alive years later, but the fact that they had the audacity to call it a bonus was absurd.

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Final score:

78points

USAFfan 10 months ago

Maybe if they phrased it as gift rather than bonus it would have gone over better

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#12

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work I was gifted a ham for the holidays…..I’m Jewish.

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Final score:

73points

Lee 10 months ago

That's when you donate it to a worthy cause. That in itself is a mitzvah. That's your gift- a good deed.

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So, what’s the best strategy at approaching corporate gifts? Assuming a budget is set and the logistics are all figured out, all that’s really left is to pick out a gift, to make it personal, and then to put the plan into motion.

In terms of what to pick, the short answer is it depends. On what? You have to pick out a gift that your employees will actually like.

#13

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Nurses Week 2022 (height of Delta wave COVID). We were given rocks on a keychain. The rock was engraved with the word “Hope”. We might have gotten some chapstick too.

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Final score:

68points

PandaJon 10 months ago

Yeah. Hope for a better job next year

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#14

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Not me but a friend - all staff at the hospital received a kitchen scrubby for Christmas. Not even themed. Just random browns, greens, pinks, and yellows... seems like the boss bought dollar store multi-packs and opened them to give everyone one piece.

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Final score:

67points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

An employer you should wash your hands of.

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#15

New owners this year. Old owner gave us 10% of our salary as a year end bonus. New guys gave us $100 amazon cards that were drained by the time we got them. Everyone was pissed but didn't wanna say anything so I did. He asked everyone and they claimed to be delighted with their cards. Spineless bastards. Lmao.

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Final score:

66points

AlchemisT 10 months ago

I hate spineless people. If he shows his reaction, he will get his due, stupid

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The general rule is to find gifts that would be both personalized and practical. One of the more popular approaches is choice-based gifting, which commonly takes shape in the form of gift cards.

Alternatively, you can compile a curated collection for employees to choose from.

#16

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work An ultra-religious self-help book so we could become less miserable, incompetent and immoral.

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Final score:

65points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

Religion? Ok, put up a big poster saying "The laborer is worthy of his hire. 1 Timothy 5:18"

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#17

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Teacher here.

One year, as our Christmas bonus, we got a defective plastic keychain that read "I love teching!" Spelled exactly like that.

Normally, I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.. but after the s**t we had been through, with zero support from admin, s**t pay, disrespect, etc. the keychain set us all off. It was adding insult to injury.

Like, not only is our "bonus" a keychain that didn't even work (the hasp had no spring), but the spelling error meant that a) someone didn't even check them when they arrived, and b) someone put them in every teacher mailbox without looking at them.

Admin sent out an email that basically said turn your keychains back in so they could send them back and get corrected ones. So, adding insult to injury.

I appreciated the sentiment, but all of us could've done without that.

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Final score:

65points

PandaJon 10 months ago

Everyone should have just thrown them away and let them know

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#18

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Company coffee mug with the company name misspelled. It was a large company.

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Final score:

64points

Sandella 10 months ago

That will be why they were gifted to employees then. What else do you do with 500 mugs with a mistake on? Definitely had it happen to me before!

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A bonus on top of all this gifting would be to make sure that sustainability is taken into account. So, organic and eco-friendly materials is the way to go. Well, that, and also if you do end up getting something that one person absolutely hates and will likely get rid of it, at least the carbon footprint is minimized. But let’s hope that’s not the case.

#19

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work During the pandemic, my partner’s company sent employees each an envelope through the mail with a sticker in it for some appreciation week I laughed so hard at that. It literally was a sticker that said “happy appreciation week”.

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Final score:

62points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

Well, they truly and sincerely expressed how much they appreciated their employees, didn't they?

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#20

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work I was re-gifted a gift basket given to my boss by a client and he forgot to remove the card that was addressed to him.

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59points

Robert T 10 months ago

Never a look a gift basket in the label. ;-)

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#21

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Starbucks gift card that had no money on it and they had no receipt for it.

SecretSocietyJ , Khadeeja Yasser / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

57points

Mike D 10 months ago

Just when I thought the items on this list couldn't get any worse

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It helps to add a personal note to the recipient. It doesn’t have to be a long message—heck, it doesn’t even have to be from the boss per se. From management or from the company can suffice, as long as it shows appreciation. Explain why you are sending the gift, make it personal, and sign it.

#22

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A coin commemorating a billion dollars in sales.

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Final score:

56points

PurpleKU77 10 months ago

..... and probably not even real silver

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#23

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Expired food.

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Final score:

55points

geezeronthehill 10 months ago

Every year we got Christmas hams. One year there was a spoilage problem with part of the batch that they bought. Boss came out of his cubby and shouted "Everybody smell your hams!" Production ground to a halt as everyone burst out laughing. Boss got redfaced, went back to his cubby.

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#24

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A pack of 10 tissues at the onset of COVID.

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54points

sbj 10 months ago

Wow! 10 whole tissues

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But if gift cards don’t sound like the best idea, consider compiling a gift box that might include some of the following items:

Hydro Flask, reusable lunch containers, work essentials for remote work, DoorDash coupons, mug warmers, plants like succulents, personalized alcohol, subscriptions to learning or self-development platforms, wireless chargers, books…

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#25

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Not me but a coworker at last year's raffle got a Nintendo DS cleaning kit. For a normal Nintendo DS, not even a 3DS. They aren't being made anymore.

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Final score:

53points

Fenchurch 10 months ago

I mean it's a cleaning kit, it's not device specific. This will shock many I am sure but I use glasses cleaner on my phone! Oh won't somebody think of the children! /S

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#26

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work I used to work in a record shop in the UK and usually got a bottle of wine as a Christmas bonus. Then the company was bought by Virgin and our Christmas bonus was a copy of Richard Branson's (Virgin's CEO) autobiography.

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Final score:

52points

Costa 10 months ago

He literally owns a company called Virgin Wines too!

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#27

My last job the company broke all sorts of financial records and gave everyone a very expensive glass thing with a decal of the refinery. Not only did it suck but all employees ended having to pay 75 dollars in taxes on it. So the 'job well done' cost 75 bucks.

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Final score:

52points

Queeqec 10 months ago

Where do you need to pay taxes for a present? (Not talking about properties/houses)

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… wireless speakers, item tags, noise canceling headphones, beauty and health care packages, eye wear or other accessories, DIY boxes, coffee, tea and anything in between.

And then don’t forget to slap that personal note on top of it and you’re golden. And if not, leave a feedback form and improve upon it.

#28

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work 5 dollar Subway gift card. My boss made me come in on an off day to pick up because, “she did not want me missing the company bonus”. I really wonder if our managers need how much was on the cards? We talked about it for months.

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Final score:

51points

QUINN SANE 10 months ago

It would have been less insulting to get nothing.

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#29

A long sleeve denim shirt with the company logo in the front above one of the front pockets..

In Florida. Plus we couldn’t wear denim at work so the only time we’d be able to wear the company shirt is on our own time (not happening) or when we’d have dress down day (again not happening).

When a coworker inquired where we could wear this since we can’t wear it to work they listed places (like a BBQ joint, the movies, etc.) and said we should be grateful since most places don’t give their employees gifts.

It was a call center. Could’ve given a blanket (since it was cold in the center), travel mug, anything except a shirt we can’t wear.

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Final score:

47points

Kira Okah 10 months ago

Embroidered or iron on? Seam ripper will get the first, heat/alcohol/adhesive removers will get the second.

25points

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#30

At a company Christmas party they would raffle off prizes; one prize for each person. They guy in front of me won a Budweiser mini fridge with LED lights. The guy after me won a LG flat-screen TV. My prize? A Pepsi baseball hat with broken snaps.

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Final score:

45points

Panda On My Balcony 10 months ago

I got a nylon T-shirt too small for me with a local rugby team logo on in our Christmas draw. My teammate landed a beautiful $200 piece of chinaware I'd been eyeing up in the shops for months. I'm still mildly envious, especially as he didn't appreciate the item he got.

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So, ever got something from your job that made you silently say “what the flip?” Share your experiences and thoughts on anything you’ve read here today in the comment section below!

And if you want more insultingly stupid gifts and perks that companies thought of giving, then look no further than this article.

#31

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work An email from the boss saying he is donating "on behalf of the company" to a charity he is a chairman of.

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Final score:

45points

USAFfan 10 months ago

Does that charity happen to be named "The Human Fund?"

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#32

A compulsory invitation to the holiday party.

Technically, I wasn't required to attend but it was a career-killer if you didn't. I had to spend money on a dress just for the party since I didn't have anything that was suitable, so not only did it cost *me* money, but I had to spend a precious evening pretending I liked my coworkers.

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Final score:

44points

Jenna Kay 10 months ago

I had to attend several of these for my husband’s former employer. You were expected to be there, with your spouse. I knew almost no one, had to chit chat with execs that were out of touch with reality, politely decline boozy advances from those who went to the cash bar, and eat sad cold food, because the upper level people were always served first 😫. My poor hubby would be so embarrassed and end up taking me out somewhere nice when we managed to slip away!

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#33

A pink slip. And I don't mean lingerie.

TableAssault:

A pink slip (in the US anyway) can be a notice of termination of employment or the title to a vehicle. I’m guessing OP didn’t get a new car as a gift, so… got fired.

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43points

Ubiquitous 10 months ago

Does being fired mean the same as being made redundant in the US?

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#34

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A cheap plastic key ring with the company logo on it after working 16-hour days for months to win a massive contract. No overtime paid either.

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Final score:

43points

Susan Bosse 10 months ago

Idk what country you're in but, if it's the US, I hope you reported them to the Labor Board. That's highly illegal.

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#35

The first company I worked for out of college gave everyone a “free turkey” around the holidays. It wasn’t really a free turkey, it was a $25 gift certificate to a grocery store that was inconvenient for 75% of the people working there. And $25 didn’t cover a turkey, of course. Turns out, the company owners had a stake in the store.

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Final score:

42points

Lee 10 months ago

How much do turkeys generally cost in the States?

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#36

A bottle of our restaurant’s “signature” steak sauce that no one really liked and that we all had free access to all day, every day at work. This was instead of the standard $100 cash bonus we normally got yearly.

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Final score:

41points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

I'm surprised that the boss didn't find his car's fuel tank full of steak sauce by the next day.

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#37

Worked for FritoLay. Went to the corporate headquarters and in my hotel room was a bag of FritoLay snack, all expired.

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Final score:

38points

Lyoness 10 months ago

So refreshing to see a company named. I'm going back to name mine in my comment.

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#38

Welcome back in office postcard after the pandemic work from home period. We’ve got it minutes after receiving termination letters.

Like I was fully expecting it but still it was in a poor taste.

Final score:

38points

Mike D 10 months ago

Not poor taste, clueless and cruel.

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#39

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Nothing. And I work for a giant company. Not surprised though.

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Final score:

38points

Catlady6000 10 months ago

An improvement on many of these

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#40

The MD of the company bought himself a boat ‘for the company’. We didn’t get a bonus that year.

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Final score:

36points

Sunny Day 10 months ago

If it's "for the company", ask when you & the IT guys can borrow it for a fishing weekend.

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#41

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work $50 gift card but only $10 was left.

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Final score:

23points

Glen Ellyn 10 months ago

A used gift card? How low can you go?

7points

#42

I had a manager give me a blood pressure monitor once because, in his words, "You're fat, eat unhealthy, drink massive amounts of coffee and seem stressed all the time and the company is afraid you might have a heart attack."

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Final score:

23points

PandaJon 10 months ago

Not sure this is a bad thing if it's true

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#43

Swag that another company gave us for free months ago.

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22points

#44

I’m diabetic and my boss knows, but every year he gets me 2 dozen cookies, a tin of caramel popcorn and bag of homemade chocolate turtles.

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Final score:

22points

J MacDonald (macdonaldja) 10 months ago

I would have put them in the staff break room with a note "Help yourself, received as a gift but I am diabetic and this would literally kill me if I ate it"

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#45

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work Link to a page from which I can write thanks to my coworkers.

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Final score:

22points

Mike D 10 months ago

And I thought #25 on this list was the worst!

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#46

Invited to a nice restaurant with other employees. Spouses were invited but had to pay their way. We were told to claim our meal on our expense forms. But our boss hadn't cleared it with his boss so all our claims were rejected.

So my wife and I went to a nice restaurant, had to pay for both of our meals and had to hang out with our boss while doing it. This was a twice a year date night type restaurant so we wasted one of our date nights with coworkers.

Edit: I've been thinking that it is possible this manager did this on purpose. The other thing he did is tell a few of us that we had been working so hard and putting in so much unpaid overtime (we were salaried) that he'd take three of us golfing for the afternoon. By the end of the round he said we should all probably use a half day of our holidays on our monthly time sheet.

Final score:

21points

PHOTOBOB 10 months ago

Staff dinners are always such fun. I don't like hanging out with these people all day but let's spend a dinner together. At least for us it was paid for. Of course one year they gave us assigned seats so we could talk with cow-orkers we did not know instead of the one person in the office we like. Left tat firm after 20 years. Only stuck around to get my 20 year bonus. My check was literally thrown at me.

4points

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#47

A 10 year anniversary memory book with my name spelled wrong on every page.

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21points

THEVibingShark92 10 months ago

Do you work for Starbucks?

14points

#48

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A pencil. And it was just some generic pencil, like from a Dollar Store. Thanks BNYMellon.

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Final score:

21points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

Choosing Happy! for me would be using the CEO's ear as my pencil sharpener.

2points

#49

As an airline pilot, I worked Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Years Day this year. On Thanksgiving Day, I walk into the cockpit to find one of those $0.75 (silver dollar size) pecan pies in the little cardboard box (the ones you get at the gas station checkout line). On Christmas Day, I found an iced sugar cookie.

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Final score:

21points

Fxnglhl 10 months ago

Props to all the pilots working on days when they should be with their family though

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#50

Boss gave me a mug, I quipped “a mug from a mug.” HR took the mug off me, made me apologise, then gave me the mug back.

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20points

Jan Rosier 10 months ago

would have told them 'no thanks, don't need a mug that badly'

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#51

A penny.

Specifically, a 1935 penny - representing the year the company was incorporated.

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20points

RAM31280 10 months ago

Well, that could be valued at $0.15 - $5.00 depending on the mint and condition, but is still complese BS.

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#52

$20 in company credit lol. Not only is it such a small amount for something that literally goes back into the company, but this was supposed to be the replacement for the end of year bonus that got cancelled, of which I was told has never happened (I joined this year).

Final score:

20points

#53

After five years, they changed my badge color from white to blue.

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Final score:

20points

PandaJon 10 months ago

Movin' on up

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#54

My wife got a check for $10. After taxes it was eight and change.

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20points

No Clue 10 months ago

🙄

0points

#55

A card from my CEO with a picture of him and his wife. Ripped up and thrown away. idc dude give me a bonus. you’re a $70m a year company.

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20points

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#56

For Christmas in 2021, McDonald's gave me a $5 gift card to McDonald's. I ate more free McDonald's every single day I worked than that card would've bought, so I ended up just giving it away.

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Final score:

20points

#57

My company is owned by a holdings company so it's a bunch of different unrelated stuff.

They keep giving us these vouchers to spend at their store.

So I did a tour of the campus, and they brought us to the store. And it's literally elderly medical care stuff, like the things you would attach to your toilet and bathtubs to have bars to hold onto. They also have those super big chairs with all the gadgets and whistles. They're like 4 grand.

So thanks for the 5 dollar voucher lol

I seriously have no idea what anyone was thinking when they came up with this reward system.

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Final score:

19points

R.A. Haley 10 months ago

They gave you a gift. Not their fault if you don't redeem it, and they don't lose any money.

0points

#58

Questionable Christmas Ham, circa 2017-ish.

In general, Christmas Ham + canned goods and assorted sweets were commonly given by Philippine corporate to employees in December, sort of to boost the Noche Buena feast on the eve of Christmas. The ham in question did not look very appetizing (think giant block of pale Spam). One of my co-workers tried offering a bite to her dog; the dog refused.

Edit: it might be earlier than 2017. I must have been so horrified with the questionable ham, I blocked out the exact year.

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Final score:

19points

Spider Puppy 10 months ago

If the dog won't eat it it's very VERY bad. That, or it's actual dog food, and the dog is like mine, who hates dog food...

1point

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#59

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work I got an email congratulating me on 5 years of service.
That was nice 😐

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Final score:

19points

Panda On My Balcony 10 months ago

I got an A5 certificate signed by the top boss in a plastic frame from the dollar shop as my 'bonus' after 25 years in the office.

7points

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#60

One year I got a jacket with the company name on it. It was a nice enough jacket but everyone got the same size - a men’s large. I’m a 5’1” woman so that didn’t work. I donated it, at least it will keep someone warm.

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Final score:

19points

sbj 10 months ago

That was kind of you so it wasn't wasted after all

11points

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#61

I was given an air tire pressure guage to promote safety. The guage was manufactured in China and promptly exploded when connected to a tire valve.

Final score:

19points

#62

I worked for Enterprise Rent A Car back when their main business was insurance replacement, in the early 90’s.

One year they gave us a print of a kid sitting in an old pedal car, daydreaming. We joked it was the company founder thinking about renting his car out to neighborhood kids.

Final score:

19points

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#63

I worked for one of the largest retailers once. This one Year the store manager decided for gifts for the associates he would just wrap up claims merchandise and give one to each person. Mine was a Picture frame without the glass that had baby on it. This was a done as a Christmas present from the store.

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Final score:

19points

Glen Ellyn 10 months ago

What penny-pinching misers they are.

5points

#64

A pewter die-cast holiday ornament of the dead boss's bust. In a velvet lined box.

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Final score:

19points

Angrykitten 10 months ago

Why isn't this higher?

2points

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#65

A coupon for 15% off Panera Bread catering. I forwarded the email to abuse. They said it was real.

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Final score:

18points

#66

After my 32¢ raise and 23¢ merit raise they gave me a used, cheap company pen with a laser pointer. After that I did my 10 hours of work at the beginning of the day and spent the rest of my day looking for another job in my cubicle.

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Final score:

18points

Featherytoad 10 months ago

You can entertain your cat with the laser pointer.

2points

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#67

Christmas gift. It was an advent calendar... Delivered on the 15th of December.

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Final score:

18points

Craig S. (EvilSausage) 10 months ago

Okay but what was the gift?

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#68

For 15 years of service, I received a hand bell with my name on it.

It started to corrode within a week in normal conditions.

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Final score:

18points

#69

My "hazard pay" during covid for being an essential worker was a one time gift card to a local grocery store. Forgot to add that it was one time $10 gift card.

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Final score:

18points

Kaedyn Walsh 10 months ago

Damn. That probably got you one egg. A small egg. Or maybe 3 sheets of 1 ply toilet paper. :(

3points

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#70

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A t shirt that says "I ❤️ my job".

zombie_overlord , Keagan Henman / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

18points

sbj 10 months ago

You can wear it when you find a new one

15points

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#71

A dead plant.

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Final score:

18points

Madeleine Summers 10 months ago

That crossed the line. Crossed the line.

0points

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#72

Instead of the usual holiday turkey we received a winter hat with the company logo. Practically every person threw it in their desks garbage can. Following year turkeys were back on the menu.

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Final score:

17points

Judy Reynolds 10 months ago

Management listened!

5points

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#73

A silver pin with the company's logo on it. It was a gift for working 5 years there.

I have been there for 6 years....7 next month. I got it 2 weeks ago.

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Final score:

17points

Jenna Kay 10 months ago

I think there is some company that has a really good sales pitch about how employees really love to receive pins that they can wear absolutely nowhere and serve no purpose.

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#74

A loaf of bread. The temps that we were working for us all got a $200 check from their temp agency. I will admit that the bread tasted good (it was one of those cinnamon and brown sugar desert loaves),and but man. Worst part was that we were all paid so poorly that we *needed* that bread; it supplemented my food budge for a week.

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Final score:

17points

Jill Bussey 10 months ago

Dessert. It's not the Sahara.

-2points

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#75

40 Of The Most Disappointing And Outright Cruel Gifts People Received At Work A deck of playing cards with coworkers' faces on every card.

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Final score:

16points

Andrei Iepure 10 months ago

Come on, this one is pretty good

7points

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#76

A major hospital system in several US states, their response to rising medical staff burnout was to send clergy staff around to the departments with a box of gifts and call it “mental health awareness week”

Gifts included:
A “stress-relief” vanilla scented votive candle without a jar.

Laminated paper bookmark with a prayer on one side and the other side was a how-to for taking a deep breath.

A tiny travel sized packet of tissues.

Lip balm.

There was also a smoothie food truck parked outside of the hospital on one of the days but my department is ridiculously short-staffed so not only was I unable to partake in said smoothie-day but also I didn’t get to take a lunch break.

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Final score:

16points

Mike D 10 months ago

Who needs ". . . a how-to for taking a deep breath."?? And what were the instructions? "OK, now take in a deep breath"

3points

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#77

A $500 bonus instead of the standard $50 that everyone else got, then an explanation email that they obviously typo'd the check, don't cash it, a replacement and correct $50 is on the way. The correct check never came.

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Final score:

16points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

Cash the check, and give them back the $450. When they come and ask for it.

14points

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#78

I got a raise once. It was a whole nickel. For my 5 year anniversary, I was given a glass paperweight that weighs 5 lbs. I keep it by my bed in case anyone breaks .

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Final score:

15points

Seadog 10 months ago

Worked for a largest local bank. There were 3 people between me and the president of the bank. My 7th annual was $36/mo. I quit shortly after that, took a minimum wage job ($3.35hr best I remember). After 90 days the boss comes around and tells me they're giving me a 25 cent/hr raise and apologized it couldn't be more but it was after all, a MW job. I told him how much the bank gave me and that he just gave me a $40/mo raise after 90 days, I thanked him with a smile and we went about our business, both better from the encounter.

0points

#79

Self-published biography of the company’s founder written by the official company’s staff historian.

Shrink wrapped tennis balls with the company’s logo on it, but they were so cheap they didn’t really bounce and when you opened the package it smelled like toxic waste.

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Final score:

15points

#80

Here’s an umbrella. Seriously and it broke three weeks later on a summer rain storm.

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Final score:

14points

Jenna Kay 10 months ago

I was given a company umbrella as a thank you once. It did a better job than my manager.

5points

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#81

The myriad plaques, trophies, signed certificates lauding my best, greatest, most efficient, most improved whatever, all of which I left in my cubicle when I was made redundant after 20+ years of service with 30 minutes of notice. They weren't worth the soybeans they were made of.

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Final score:

14points

Seadog 10 months ago

My enjoyment always came when they decided some snot nosed kid right out of school could do my job for less. Never mind my years of experience. So I moved to the competition and 75% of my customers followed me. Imagine how well it went over when the old employer lost roughly 40% of the entire store sales (75% of my departments sales) in one fell swoop because he wanted to cut payroll by a few hundred bucks a month. He didn't remain a DM long after that. That was 15 years ago, they still havn't recovered the loss.

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#82

Probably doesn't qualify but I was offered 2 tacos from Taco Bell for my birthday once. Co-workers started laughing maniacally, but I was hungry so I said "Sure!" Hey it's still two free Tacos!

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Final score:

14points

Seadog 10 months ago

That would be my luck....I hate Taco Bell.

0points

#83

An apron. They gave us all aprons one year. Then they got mad if we didn’t wear the aprons at work. But the aprons were super thin linen, and the dyes and chemicals we worked with soaked right through them, so I wanted to use the apron at home & just keep using my normal coveralls at work. The CEO literally said we had to wear the aprons bc she wanted to take photos of us working to put on the blog, and she wanted us to look like artists and not mechanics. But we worked in a leather goods factory… i ended up wearing the stupid apron over my coveralls 🙄

Intrepid_Source_7960 Report

Final score:

14points

Seadog 10 months ago

I hope everyone had red dye stains on them when the pictures were taken.

0points

#84

In 2020 I was granted a large retention bonus, enough cash that we were going to use it to buy a bigger house. On the day that we were all sent home to work remotely due to COVID, I was given a red plastic tumbler that said "Merry Christmas you filthy animal" on the side. In March. 3 weeks later (4 days before my bonus was to be paid), I was laid off alongside 1200 of my coworkers.

Now about once a year I enjoy a stiff drink out of my $270k plastic tumbler.

donnyblaze1 Report

Final score:

13points

Jenna Kay 10 months ago

Sorry, but I couldn’t even dream of getting bonus that size. No wonder your company had to lay people off!

1point

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#85

$25 gift certificate to Honey Baked Hams. A half ham was $45. A pie was $18.

The company had no alternate gift for Jewish, Muslim, or vegetarian employees. They literally told them they could take it a or get nothing.

The casino I worked for had also recently announced they had record revenue for that property also.

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Final score:

13points

MP 10 months ago

I’d get the pie and a couple drinks

3points

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#86

Glasses case (though I don't have glasses).

Ashamed_Gap_4838 Report

Final score:

13points

Surenu 10 months ago

Write your notice, fold it up, put it in the case and leave it on someone's desk

3points

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#87

Well before Covid teachers would get laid off. My first year I got laid off, but I also had to attend a mandatory meeting with the superintendent - a “thanks” for staying.

I got a rigid plastic coffee mug and the handle broke off almost immediately.

Final score:

12points

#88

Ooooh I have a great one. Ten year anniversary, got to pick out of a catalogue, mostly stuff under like 30-40 bucks tops. Slow cookers, blah blah. None of the stuff was appealing so I didn't spend much time and chose a kitchen thermometer because I'm always breaking them or melting them.

Nope, what I got was a kitchen thermometer probe. Just the probe and the cord and a cord carrying gadget.

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Final score:

11points

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#89

Gift certificate to Tim Hortons. I had a job for ten years that would start at 5am and my lunch would be at 9am. It was so remote that the only place to buy breakfast before 5am or anything resembling lunch at 9am was Tim Hortons and by year ten I was sick of it. So of course they give a gift certificate to there.

tangcameo Report

Final score:

11points

#90

Napkin rings.

Final score:

11points

#91

A prepaid Petrocan gas card - since I was the founder of the office Bicycle Users Group and didn't have a car.

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Final score:

11points

#92

End of the year gift was a basketball with a note that said “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Now let’s shoot for more commissions in 2015”. Everyone in the sales department got this including the manager.

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Final score:

11points

White Sauce Hot Sauce 10 months ago

Even worse, since the quote was said by a hockey player.

6points

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#93

The worst one was probably the ominous combination of a branded coffee mug and a stress ball. It's like they were saying, 'Here, have something to drink your sorrows away, and if that fails, squeeze this stress ball.' A dubious duo that left me questioning both my caffeine intake and stress levels. But hey, at least it made for a good conversation starter during awkward office parties!

Blanklyplace Report

Final score:

10points

#94

iPads one year for exceeding company revenwue goals.

Sister company complained because they didn't get iPads because of their c**p year.

Next year we exceeded goals again, but we got towels with the company logo that didn't absorb water for s**t.

Sister company also got towels.

Final score:

10points

#95

I was a minor working closing shift at a McDonald's on Xmas Eve. I had no transportation and had to walk over a mile home (American NE). They game me a f*****g frozen turkey. Like, first of all,what can you possibly do with a frozen bird on Xmas Eve?? Second, I was 17. What was a 17yo going to do with a frozen bird on Xmas Eve? I walked with if for a few blocks and abandoned it on some random person's row home front porch.

remesabo Report

Final score:

9points

A. Starhawk Hunt 10 months ago

that was nicely done, though, by you.

3points

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#96

We used to get 3 scratch tickets, each worth like 2 euros, for christmas every year.. about 150 employees, everyone got 3 tickets. Nobody ever won anything.

I say "used to" because in 2022, we sent the scratch tickets, unused, back to our boss. almost all of us.. we didn't get one in 2023.. we also didn't get a christmas party as we used to, instead the boss invited everyone to drive with him to the next big city to "party".. while the rest had to work on their day off to cover the shifts of people going to said party.

GuyFromDeathValley Report

Final score:

9points

#97

Bottle of water, the mini hand sanitizer that you can connect with a bag, and a flavored powder thing for the water. Hahah. It was pitiful. Teacher appreciation by management.

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Final score:

9points

#98

GameStop gave me a 256mb flash drive for working there for 5 years.

TheRealKirby Report

Final score:

8points

Michael Largey 10 months ago

This really depends on when this happened. When they had just come out, a 256mb flash drive would have been a pricey item.

5points

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#99

It was a manual radio that you had to crank for like 20 mins to get 5 mins of power. He said it was a survival radio for when the world loses all power or you go camping. He was always getting ready for the end of the world.

18k_gold Report

Final score:

6points

Batwench Premium 10 months ago

Those are bloody handy for city blackouts etc.

8points

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#100

5 years was a silver Cross company engraved pen/pencil set. Got that set 2002, and it's never been used to this day. 10 years we got a nice gold company logo'd ring. Boldly displaying the company logo. Was a very nice ring. At 15 years they took the ring, and added a diamond chip. Same at 25 years. I was there 27 years before retiring. I proudly wore it for 17 years. Took off the ring, well because I didn't work there anymore. Let's head to the local gold jeweler and sell it. She weighed it, took into account the diamond chips, and had a sad look on her face as she said it was worth $358. Huh? This thing was solid gold, heavy, nice. Are you sure? $358? I'll pass. Next jeweler offered me $325. C**p. Went back to the original offer, and she wrote me a check for $358. Guess it was a cr*ppy gold, though it looked expensive. Don't know if it's the worst, but it was the worst feeling when I was told it's value.

explorthis Report

Final score:

3points

Charles McChristy 10 months ago

At a p**n shop what they pay you is not the value of it.

4points

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Caroline Nagel 10 months ago

I'm so happy I live in a European country where it is normal that as good as every employee receives a thirteenth month pay at the end of the year. Thanks to our unions. I'm sure all these happened in the USA. The 'you are not better than slaves'-vibe is strong in these stories.

8points

Maria Hornberger 10 months ago

That's because all the stupid asses in the US voted out unions.

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Lydsylou (she/her) 10 months ago

I got nothing but tbf at the restaurant where I work I do get free snacks, unlimited free drinks, free breakfast and lunch and a discount on food when I'm not working so that's basically my gift

5points

Bobert Robertson 10 months ago

Wasn't really a "gift" but my former boss handed me a rope and suggested I use it to hang myself because the team i oversaw had poor performance one weekend.

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Caroline Nagel 10 months ago

I'm so happy I live in a European country where it is normal that as good as every employee receives a thirteenth month pay at the end of the year. Thanks to our unions. I'm sure all these happened in the USA. The 'you are not better than slaves'-vibe is strong in these stories.

8points

Maria Hornberger 10 months ago

That's because all the stupid asses in the US voted out unions.

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Lydsylou (she/her) 10 months ago

I got nothing but tbf at the restaurant where I work I do get free snacks, unlimited free drinks, free breakfast and lunch and a discount on food when I'm not working so that's basically my gift

5points

Bobert Robertson 10 months ago

Wasn't really a "gift" but my former boss handed me a rope and suggested I use it to hang myself because the team i oversaw had poor performance one weekend.

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