While the Christmas season is intended to be a joyful celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth with loved ones, some have taken to social media to express their frustration with corporate greed. Explaining how they were given truffle mayonnaise this year instead of a highly anticipated cash bonus, the user on Reddit instructed his boss to “shove it.”
Beginning the post, the user said, “If my Christmas bonus isn’t money, you can shove it”. Long rant…I’m sick and tired if these “your work sent you a gift” emails every year around Christmas.” Continuing, they wrote, “I can’t imagine how sad your life has to be to say “oh boy I can’t wait to get my gift of clearance garbage that I will never use.” Most of the time I would just pick whatever food item they had on there and be done. This year that option is an $11 jar of truffle mayonnaise>”
Explaining how the the Christmas gift was a slap in the face, they said, “You arent showing “gratitude” or “appreciation” to someone by giving them something you paid $2 for and can’t use My f****** manager gives me more money on random weekends to go get lunch. Our store has 5 employees and makes over a million a year but obviously the people in the store had only a small role in that.”
Sharing a similar experience, another person commented in the thread, “My first job at the local movie theater which paid 25 cents over minimum wage gave us a $50 Christmas bonus check, but I as an adult with bills to pay and groceries to buy would definitely rather have some chinesium essential oil diffuser (which is still taxed from my paycheck) I would MUCH rather prefer even like a $10 walmart giftcard than what everywhere seems to be doing now.”
Another person drew a parallel to the holiday classic “Christmas Vacation” when Clark Griswold received his jelly of the month subscription instead of his much-needed bonus. “Oh this reminds me of the Clark Griswold rant in National Lampoon’s Christmas vacation when he’s enrolled in a jelly of the month club instead of getting a bonus. It sucks, I know. My company doesn’t even do bonuses for Christmas,” they wrote.
“Their whole thing is – we appreciate you working the holiday instead of being with your family so here’s a free meal during these hours. We don’t even get holiday pay. The company i work for has around 250 people at my location, and 15 other properties (I work in a casino),” one Reddit user commented, shedding light into their industry.
Sharing another bad experience, one person commented, “I worked as a teacher in a charter school. One year they gave us a pen for a bonus. It didn’t write. The next year was lockdown year and they gave us a cloth mask. Mine had someone’s makeup line in it already. Oooooh and I got a mouse pad the first year I was there.” They added, “So, a pen that doesn’t work, mousepad and someone’s used face mask. So glad I had to buy all my own supplies for kids too.”
Watch a hilarious, but fake story about not receiving a bonus:
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