30 Awful Work ‘Bonuses’ Worthy of An Immediate Two-Weeks’ Notice
It’s a gag as old as time — or least since we started giving gifts to one another. You hand your friend a perfectly-wrapped birthday/Christmas/thank-god-you-dumped-him present and wait until they’ve ripped off the wrapping paper, only to utter the classic line: “Surprise! I got you a box!”
The ongoing dad joke earns eye rolls and groans when done to pals, but has a very different connotation when coming from a large multinational corporation, a lesson one Redditor learned during a lackluster holiday season. “A rep came around and gave everyone in the company a thin black wine bag,” they recalled. Initially excited that they’d get to select a bottle to put in the bag to enjoy at home, their enthusiasm was quickly squashed when the rep clarified there was no wine. “The gift was the bag itself.”
This sobering experience of receiving a wine bag “bonus” is one of many times companies did their workers dirty, the worst of which involve a poker chip, boss bobbleheads and layoffs for everybody.
