One woman revealed on social media how she was allegedly snubbed by her employer when they gave employees the underwhelming holiday experience of a “potato bar” instead of a preferred Christmas bonus. In a thread posted to X late last year, user Amanda B explained the situation, which undeniably resembles Clark Griswold receiving his jelly of the month membership instead of a year-end bonus in “Christmas Vacation.”
Amanda began in her post, “My work is doing a potato bar as our Christmas bonus. I’m literally getting a hospital potato as a bonus. They also said it has a $15 value so it will be taxed on our next check. Does anyone need an assistant so I can just quit right now?” She jokingly added, “This is my Charlie Brown villain origin story.”
“People telling me to start a fight or a riot, girl, I need my job 🤣,” she said in another comment. “Idk, you guys, do I show up with Tupperware and just get my $$$$ worth in sour cream?” However, Amanda claimed the potatoes were an improvement from last year’s event. “This is an improvement from the 30 minute Wexbex with leadership as our gift last year. It was a Webex because the uear before they had to be in the same room with us and they’re too good and not doing that again,” she added.
The poor experience with the potato Christmas bonus incited numerous comments under the post with users sharing their own poor experiences. “One time the hospital I worked at gave out cheap plastic license plate frames with the hospital name on it. They really thought we would all give them free advertising. They tried to force us to take one,” one person said.
Sharing a similar experience with a previous company, one person wrote, “Could be worse, many moons ago I work for a company, whose parent company was a big food conglomerate. no Christmas bonus, but on New Year’s we got a can of Black Eyed Peas 😂😂😂😂”. Another person sounded off on the potato bar concept, writing, “Oh. My. Goodness. I think I could buy 15 POUNDS of raw potatoes for $15. I’m not sure what they are thinking but it doesn’t have anything to do with you being a valuable employee.”
“You’re not joking? I am sitting here mildly stunned. I am sorry you need that job. I am the kind of person who would tell them where to put the potato and walk away forever. The sheer audacity of such a garbage gift. One forced on you then taxed,” another person wrote. “Wait. You’re getting a POTATO as a Christmas bonus, and they’re going to tax it? Do I have this right? What kind of macabre prank is this company playing? Surely they’re joking, because that’s beyond ridiculous! But oh no, I worked a long time and saw a lot of stupidity. So yes,” another person said.
Another user encouraged Amanda to voice her complaints to corporate leadership, hopefully to prevent the same thing next year. “It’s time to send some anonymous emails (not from your office or home computers) and let the corporate executives know how disrespectful this is. I’d rather they made a donation to Toys For Tots. 🔥”
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