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Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses?
A wisely anonymous reader writes "Following my company's Christmas party on Friday, I found myself the proud recipient of... a bobble head doll of the company CEO! Needless to say I was PISSED. They didn't even comp. parking at the site of the party, let alone a bonus. yeah, yeah, times are tough. I should be happy just to have a job. but getting a damn doll of the guy who made 65 million last year just makes me angry. So... What did you get from your Company for Christmas?"
...and really deserve a spanking from mommy.
A friend of mine works for a small company (Less than 100 employees) that had Christmas party. Later she heard some employees complaining that the food wasn't that good -- yada, yada, yada. It never occured to them that the party cost $40 per person for the company to do. They did not charge the employees, so that $40 per employee came out of the company's pocket (and this isn't a Fortune 500 type company).
Every action we make, everything we say, makes a statement about who we are.
So you didn't even get comped for your parking ticket? Maybe the company already spent $40 OR MORE just so you could be there. What are you saying about yourself by pissing and moaning about this? That whatever you get isn't enough.
So you got a bobble-head of your boss? By giving such gifts, your boss is making a statement about his huge ego. By not just chucking it into the garbage on your way out (or waiting and throwing it out later when nobody would see you), you are saying you would rather whine and moan than just deal with something and move on.
So your boss made $65 million this year and you didn't. We all pity you. After all, it is so hard to get off your butt, get out of your cubicle, and start your own business, so you are the one who determines what you make. Obviously you'd rather complain than do that. And that, you spoiled, lazy, whiney butt, is why the boss is making $65 mill a year -- because he isn't lazy and got off his butt climbed to the top.
I was making less than $20,000 a year and a half ago. I hated it. Now I'm making less, but have contracts that basically mean I'll be making 5 figures by the end of 2003 (that's 5 figures a month -- my own income, not my companies). Let me know your name, so I never hire you. Why? Because I'm working my butt off so one day soon I'll be making $65 mill a year. I want employees who are eager to make more and do well, not people who want to whine and piss and moan about what they don't have or didn't get when their company pays for a Christmas party and they have a job that pays the rent, and they're not on welfare, and they weren't killed in the World Trade Centers on 9/11, and they don't live in a country or location where they are lucky they lived long enough to see their 1st birthday.
Sure, the bobble-head was in poor taste, but complaining about the freebies you got, or complaining because you didn't get enough freebies is just plain childish.
Get over it and grow up!
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so, for employment to be a contract between equals, the employees need to have more clout and power? simple. unionize!
Actually, that's not the answer (at least, not the answer for the last 50 years or so).
When you join a union, instead of giving power to your boss over yourself, you are just giving power to the union over yourself. Unions simply elevate the lamers at the expense of the good people.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.