Posted: 12/22/2006 7:32:18 AM EDT
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Any of you give your employees gifts at Christmas? I went out and got 2 movie ticket vouchers and a card for each of my employees, so far, i've overheard one person complaining that the theatre is too far from her house and no one has said thank you. So much for giving is better than receiving. 
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I'm not the boss around here, but mine dropped a bag on my desk yesterday afternoon, along with bags on the desks of the rest of his employees. 2 nice boxes of chocolate, a bottle of Smirnoff, a $20 gift card to Dunkin Donuts, and a bunch of scratch off lottery tickets. I'm really just blown away by how nice that was. I said thank you to him before I went home, but I've never even had a boss give me a christmas present before this. How do you thank someone appropriatly for that? |
My boss sent a 9lb precooked, presliced honeybaked ham to my house today. It surprised the hell out of me. I take back every bad thing I've said about him  . I haven't had a chance to thank him yet, since we're both off today, but I'll tell him the next day I'm at work.
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I work for a power company so we don't get individual gifts. My plant manager did send a Christmas card and I get paid triple time to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so... The movie tickets were a nice idea! If your employees don't want them send them to me! LOL You went out of your way and got nothing for it...Screw them. |
Smirnoff Vodka AND Dunkiin Donuts? Your boss has exquisite tastes. |
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Every year, I get to continue in my work as a gainfully employed geek. That's thanks enough for me. Just don't fire my ass, and you'll have my undying gratitude. I think I got two gift cards this year, as well. They pay us plenty and they treat us right. That alone is a "bonus" for some folks. If I ever hear an engineer bitch come Christmas time, I'll smack him. |
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I used to give gifts personally when I was a manager at my previous job. I am one of the owners at my present job, and my three partners took our two employees (and ourselves) out to lunch at P.F. Changs, and gave each $500. I would like to have given them more, but we didn't have a great year. They did thank us, though. |
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Things I have given and complaints I have heard. We give Christmas bonuses. The guy who got the biggest bonus that was over $900.00 actually complained because some other people got bonuses that were almost as big. (bonuses at that time were based on how much you made, how many years you had with the company and how many days you were late, etc.) I told him that I don't have to give a bonus at all and that many other companies don't give bonuses at all and that fewer still give such large bonuses. I also told him that the response of normal people who were raised properly was to say, "Thank You" but that I don't go around expecting a "Thank You". I told him that if he didn't like the bonus, to give it back and I would gladly divide it up and give it to everyone else who didn't find anything wrong with their bonuses. Before I started the 401K, I started a SEP. 401k's were impossible for small companies to do several years ago. I guy complained that his friend at another company had a 401K and was putting money into it. I finally had to say, "The paper you have before you means that I am giving you $2,500.00, when was the last time somebody walked up to you and gave you $2,500.00?" He kind of paused for a second and the light bulb came on and he said, "Ooooh!" The laws were changed making it possible for small companies to start 401k programs. I started one. We match dollar for dollar up to 4% of income. You can choose from a wide variety of investments. One of the guys complained because he wasn't making any money on his investments and therefore that meant that I should hear about it and he also thought that I should hear that the investments weren't any good. He probably thought that I was somehow making money because he wasn't earning what he thought he should in a very short time period. I looked at his investments and found that he had made over 8% on his account not to mention that half of the money he was making money on would have never been there in the first place if I hadn't of started the 401k and gave him 4% of his gross salary. I pointed out that 8% is a damn fine start and that he was lucky since I took several years for my IRA investments to really start taking off. I knew most of the employees had done absolutely nothing to save for the future. Some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope. |