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[-] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 211 points 1 year ago

Way back before Scott Adams went completely off the deep end I had a tin of Dilbert branded mints called Encourage Mints. This is literally a joke from the hackiest office comic ever yet some manager(s) still thought it was good idea. WTF does business school teach?

[-] jplate8@lemmy.world 144 points 1 year ago

Company making millions due to its workers efforts, while rewarding them with practically nothing? Sounds like business school is teaching capitalism perfectly.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago

They aren't teaching psychology in them. Stupid "gifts" like these are a net negative. You are so much better off giving nothing than a crappy gift.

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[-] dadGPT@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago
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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

They should just attach a turbine to Karl Marx's coffin .... his spinning could probably supply enough power for all of Western Europe.

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 166 points 1 year ago

OP is a goddamn liar and is trying to spread misinformation. Notice how there are TWO staples but only ONE mint??? Nice try OP, but we all see through your poor facade and know you're actually a two mint-having bitch elitist!

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 84 points 1 year ago
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[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

Wait 2 mints?!?! Well goddamn if that doesn’t change everything!!!

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[-] 44razorsedge@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of getting a note from HR admonishing me to pick out my 20th work anniversary "gift" from "pages 12 to 16" of the supplied catalogue. I knew nothing of it. They concluded with "or we'll choose for you, i.e. a clock". I got luggage tags. For 20 years of my life. The best years of my life. Luggage tags. FML.

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[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 85 points 1 year ago

They are not even ashamed of doing this!

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

"What? It's cute!"

-some dipshit with an Agile certification

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 30 points 1 year ago

Gonna get an agile certification to get such a position and then coach my team into a fucking union

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[-] cupcakezealot 79 points 1 year ago

thanks for making us six million here's a lifesaver

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago

This is the real reason why torches and pitchforks were invented.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

What double sucks about this is that every time I've seen something like it, it's some middle manager who fights tooth and nail to try to get their team anything and is given a budget of $6.37 and whatever they can find in the break room for 100 people. I have unfortunately been that guy a few too many times and had to explain to absolutely clueless managers that doing nothing instead is preferable.

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 77 points 1 year ago

Thanks for making our shareholders money! Remember not to call in sick or ask for a raise and that unions take your money with no benefit!

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

DisappointMINT

DiscourageMINT

Lack of commitMINT to fairly compensating your employees

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Every month my boss tells us how big a profit we're making. I think he thinks it's morale building. I'm guessing everyone thinks the same thing I do- "then I should be paid better." My Macbook Air, which I never took anywhere, was dying. I needed a new Mac for work. I suggested a Mac mini. They cost like $500. And I had to literally wait until my Macbook wouldn't stay on for more than 20 minutes for them to pony up the $500. God I hate it. I'm on FMLA right now though, which gives me time to look elsewhere.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago

Why would you even ask this question, its clear they use them already...

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Because that's the ecosystem we use for the designers where I work, I hate Windows and there is no way I would convince the IT guy to run Linux. I would have to run the Adobe software through a VM anyway and I couldn't run our own software.

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[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

There's no way this is real - nobody would be that stupid, even in a management role, right?

[-] Chthonic@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 year ago

When I was at Costco, for Member Service Week they literally gave us a rock, like from the gravel outside the office, with the note: "You rock!"

[-] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Your resignation letter should have just said "Now I'm about to roll"

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[-] Uprise42@artemis.camp 32 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen this kind of cheesy thing as party favors for company Christmas parties. It’s a thing, but it’s almost never the ONLY thing. It’s more likely someone in management saw it on Pinterest and had to incorporate somehow to seem like the fun boss. The. Did some other lousy stuff to make it not seem so bad.

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[-] whitepawn@reddthat.com 53 points 1 year ago

I assumed this was a nursing sub until I looked closer. Hospital management only does horrid shit like this for staff.

These “rewards” are awful. My condolences.

If you’re lucky though, maybe you’ll get a small rock with a “You Rock!” printout next time.

[-] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The only place that rock should go is through your boss’s windshield

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

You forgot "seething resentmint"

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[-] skullone@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago

Love that the staple pierces the mint's wrapper, essentially contaminating it and rendering it potentially unsafe to eat. So you don't even get that, lol.

Time to find new employMINT.

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[-] yiliu@informis.land 44 points 1 year ago

I mean it seems outrageously greedy, but stop and think about it: if they'd paid for a pizza party, the banner would've had to read "Thanks for driving sales and beating plan by $5,999,727!!" And that's just ugly.

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is like in the UK when everyone clapped for the NHS workers during the COVID pandemic, including the PM and other government ministers.

But when said workers ask for a pay rise? Fuck off

[-] SexyTimeSasquatch@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Pictured: the moment Bob decided it was time to form a fucking union.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 38 points 1 year ago

Actually adding the amount of additional money you made them to the card is the cherry on top.

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[-] Xcf456@lemmy.nz 37 points 1 year ago

I feel this will just breed resentmint

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

My company gave everyone a 5% bonus just because we beat the forecasted numbers, but idk a mint looks fine too

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[-] Xtallll 29 points 1 year ago

An invitation to burn your place of employmint to the ground.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I kind of don’t care what company / industry / whatever this was. If you surpassed sales targets by $6 million dollars, you have some cash for decent gifts. Hell a six pack of beer would be something… don’t print me out a goddamn insult. At the same time, knowing how sales compensation usually works, these folks probably got hella paid, weak gifts aside.

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[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I kept thinking "surely this was attached to something else and they didn't just give a mint and a few stupid jokes". Then I noticed another one of these stuck to a locker in the background. What pieces of trash. You don't show appreciation by saying "You are appreciated". You show appreciation by compensating your employees for their work.

[-] jenniebuckley@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I broke my back to make a company's CEO $6,000,000 and all I got was this stupid Polo mint

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

If someone pulls this shit with me. I quit

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[-] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Suddenly switching to papyrus font at the bottom lol

[-] Amazinghorse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

That is worse than nothing. I got angry just reading this.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Your labor is worth 6 million dollars. How much of that do you get?

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[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

For fuck sake, not even a werther's.

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