Ugly blanket with company logo.

A bit later the company sent an email asking for donations to help with hurricane Katrina aid.

The next day an amended email was sent saying they did not need anymore blankets….

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A book written by the company's "Digital Prophet" (yes his actual title) I immediately threw it out. My boss fished it out of my trash and put it on my desk, saying I accidentally tossed my gift. I maintained eye contact as I pushed it right back into the bin.

Hungry4Apples86 , Jonas Jacobsson Report

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I worked at Food City and they gave us gift cards to locals places. It wasnt bad until the manager said “yeah these companies donated them to us at the start of the pandemic to help feed our employees” you know 9 MONTHS EARLIER.

Arra13375 , Eduardo Soares Report

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A blanket with the company logo on it. Gave it to the homeless man that hung out in front of the shop.

honey_biscuits108 , Alexander Grey Report

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Me and my coworkers were once forced to play a “Christmas game” where we could win gift cards (all bought by the owner of the company).

However she rigged the game to where only she and her sister would win the gift cards. Everyone else got an email from the owner thanking us for our hard work.

I no longer work there.

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A framed picture of the CEO. The frame was made so you could not take the photo out and re-use it.
I put mine in the toilet, pissed on it. Left it there. Less than an hour later, the other 5 toilets has matching picture frames. This went on for several weeks.

theoddfind , Jan Antonin Kolar Report

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Two movie theater tickets (like a redeemable gift card thing)… while movie theaters were closed due to COVID. It was a special thanks for being an essential worker.

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I got a card with a note thanking me for donating my bonus back to the company. I didn't even get an option, no discussions, and it happened every year. The company was worth hundreds of millions of dollars and we were not struggling at all.

Xyain , RODNAE Productions Report

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A voucher for a free turkey, except it wasn't valid at any of the grocery chains in our region...the same region where the company was headquartered.

LiliTiger , RODNAE Productions Report

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Told I was getting a 10k bonus

Received a $25 grocery store gift card

alwaysmilesdeep , 401(K) 2012 Report

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Had a boss hand me a certificate that said, get one night FREE, when you rent out my Airbnb for 5 days

artgarciasc , cottonbro studio Report

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2004, America Online. Call center, working tech support. Thanksgiving rolls around and there's buzz about a $500 bonus coming our way. Checks arrive and they're all huge, everyone sees a $500 bonus on their check and goes home to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.

Monday rolls around and 900 employees have an e-mail from HR stating that the bonus was a "mistake" and "the amount will be deducted from your next check". This was a biweekly gig, meaning that money came out of the Christmas check. My next paycheck was 71 dollars. Happy holidays!

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Last year my wife got a roll of toilet paper. With a note taped to it that said we're on a roll.

Typical_Name_2636 , Clay Banks Report

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Once for Thanksgiving, in my housekeeping job, they hid little paper slips with turkey pictures on them in our rooms we had to find (or get written up because we weren't cleaning good enough otherwise if we couldn't find them apparently) and if we all found all our slips we'd get a bonus.


The bonus was a pen.


I didn't stay long after that

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Worked for a grocery store last year. Company had record profits due to the pandemic buying. Their gift for the essential employees a $10 gift card. While the owner is out buying minor league baseball teams and building a concert venue.

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A 5.95 credit for a sandwich

Vegetable-Fix-4702 , Hillshire Farm Report

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record breaking profits and stock at an all time high no bonus

canadianmusician604 , Andrew Neel Report

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Received company-wide email that everyone was getting a $25 Tim Horton’s gift card. End of day I didn’t get mine do I asked the ceo and she said that email didn’t apply to IT so I wasn’t getting a bonus

I asked why was I sent the email then because that is mean. She just shrugged and walked away. Only one in company not to get the ‘bonus’

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Walmart cut my pay 5% and said I was lucky I did not have to pay the overage back, but I had an opportunity to earn back if I stayed and tried to move up in the company

Klutzy_Pianist1782 , Caique Morais Report

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The company hired a Whitesnake cover band to play in our lunch room at work

Forgot to add important context: the drummer was the owner’s grandson

senor_purple_butt , Caleb Oquendo Report

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It was before my time, but the year my former company gave bottled water has been mentioned every year since.

Symonie , Daniel Orth Report

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After thanksgiving, Boss literally came in and praised all of us for a great fiscal year and said each of us would get a $500 bonus, a raise, and the company xmas party was going to be a some fancy bowling place.

Next check was regular pay. The check on the Friday before Xmas didn’t come on that Friday. It was delayed until the next Tuesday, the 23rd and the Xmas bonus was $5. I asked HR about it and they said “well, you know owner, he sometimes b.s.’s a lot”. Ever since that paycheck, the checks got progressively late. When I was fired 8 months later (retaliation for reporting to labor board) I got 3 paychecks at once in cash cause I told them a actual check was not acceptable.

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A framed photo of me and my coworkers. Half of them would be fired/quit by February

Jolly_Celery_9493 , Pavel Danilyuk Report

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I worked at a medium sized airline for several years. One year, the CEO ran us into the ground so badly, the company filed for bankruptcy (he still got a $10m bonus)

We used to get a 10% salary bonus around Christmas time, but since the bankruptcy, we were warned that it would be "substantially less"

My bonus that year? A mint taped to a Christmas card that said "thanks a MINT for your hard work."

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A $20 Walmart gift card (I was working st walmart). A company worth more than $400,000,000,000 and I got 20 f*****g dollars. I told my manager to keep it and walked out. That was the last time I ever worked retail. Never again.

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We got a heart pin this year because “we are the heart of the company.” Oh, and told we have to work 5 hours OT each week for the first 3 weeks of January.

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My wife just received a $5 gift card for Starbucks and a note that said "thanks a latte"

Alive_Anything4006 , 401(K) 2012 Report

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We got a 50% off coupon for pizza. Online purchase only. The coupon didn’t work…

attley , The Nix Company Report

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A head of lettuce. Working produce in small town grocery stores is wild.

Nkechinyerembi , Jef Wright Report

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