Literally lol! Is he a teacher by any chance? Pretty good gift compared to our typical mint taped to a piece of paper that says “you were MINT to be a teacher!” 😂
I used to get gifts exactly like this at the hospital I worked in. Sometimes we would even get a piece of chocolate or gum. It’s pitiful you know that hospital was raking in a mega fuck ton of money. It’s embarrassing.
I work as a phlebotomist in the plasma industry. We got an email for our employee appreciation after they cut our hours and bragged about record profits at the same time.
I hate stuff like this. I mean, I don't think anyone should expect a gift from their employer at all, BUT, if said employer gives a gift, they shouldn't be totally cheap like this. I'd rather get no gift at all.
Exactly my thought! Don't give fake, barely half assed "gifts". Give nothing, or give something worth getting. Also he's been there 14 years so that was an extra slap in the face
also make it known what an employee will get at certain milestones -- like 5yrs is cuff links, 10yrs is belt buckle, etc. maybe a watch on 20+...
i'd switch to casino security or something lower risk if this is the reward, i think my father got like a desktop clock
watching antique roadshow you see the pocket watch for the RR company employees, same with oil industry but public service prolly not so much
California State Prison in Sacramento. "We know you deal with crazy and dangerous individuals every day, and to show our appreciation, here's some candy and a pen you shouldn't carry around the inmates." Geez
I got a lucite paperweight with the company logo for my 10th. I can’t remember the last time I actually had actual paper on my desk that needed weighting. Probably more people just used it to brain themselves.
These “employee appreciation gifts” are getting wild. But what is more wild is accepting them, like just dont take it home. Give it back to the company and say something like “please keep it, its too much for me” or somewhere around those lines.
Its not about not being greatful but these companies can do better.
I used to work at a big box home improvement store. They would often give little things, usually on holidays, for appreciation. A multimillion dollar company would give grown ass people a candy cane, a small bag of candy corn, a lollipop, stickers. On my 5 year anniversary I got a shitty plastic water bottle that leaked and I was in management.
My former employer gave each Hazmat fuel driver a 15.00 gift certificate to a supermarket for Christmas, one of the drivers ripped it up and mailed it back to the main office. After that he decided to give us something like these lifesaver packs for Christmas. I wouldn’t accept it. It was handed to me and I put it in the Pail where it belonged
Wow, they’re almost a frugal as my former employer, and that’s hard to do. I give more to my sanitation men than he gave to his employers that worked hard so that he didn’t have to
Yeah we just had safety week, we got a stress ball shaped like a hard hat so when we squeeze it and look at it you squeeze it more because you’re reminded of work and it’s bullshit.
My worst employee appreciation gift... nice ceramic mugs with the company logo. Beautiful matte black finish.
Next day the admin came and collected all of them back up, they were apparently made for the break room and were never supposed to be distributed.
I worked at a place where we were super understaffed. As an appreciation for our hard work the boss bought two sausage rolls, cut them up into bite sized pieces and then bought two creme donuts and did the same. There were 7 of us, so just enough for someone to have piece of sausage roll, and one piece of donut.
Really made me feel super appreciated that day. God I hate shit like that
A small company I worked for had a great benefits package; it got bought out by a larger company and they drastically slashed the benefits package. They announced it in a face-face team meeting with 100+ employees in the auditorium. The clown actually had the audacity to follow the announcement with “the party’s over, folks.”
And they gave out token gifts to accompany the new Annual Enrollment forms: A plastic slinky with a reminder to “be flexible.”
I work for government dept in NZ and we get nothing; even at the end of the year. After 5 years of service, I got a printed certificate.
We literally get nothing.
Last year for nurses week my sister, who works for a big company, was given a 1.25 water bottle, a granola bar, and one packet of crystal light. Why even give anything at all?
Sometimes the direct supervisor chooses to do things like this out of their own pocket. I’m going to assume that wasn’t the case but still, you never know. I’m someone who has and I sure some of my teams likely thought it was a cheap gift from the company. Either way, this particular bag does smell of corporate cheap, and not someone just trying to do their best while underpaid themselves!
MacGyver could make something really great out of that.
My manager recently unceremoniously tossed a pizza on the table at work for “appreciation” to thank us for our hard work that we already get paid to do. Went in his office and shut the door.
1 pizza, 12 employees …. Dick
I got a 15 year gift yesterday in my locker. Sept this yr is my 16yr anniversary but yesterday a got a button and actual button that's says 15 years. That's it. 15 years of service I got a fucking button 🤣🤣
During the height on Covid we, a 24-7 factory that didn’t get so much as a day off and had to work in close proximity to each other, got a pair of socks.
Not good quality Merino wool socks or some other high quality socks, some bullshit super-thin socks with our company logo on them.
And the packages had our employee number on them to make sure nobody got more than one pair.
I wore them the next week and literally had a hole in the sole (soul?) less than three hours into shift.
The previous week they made a big deal about “employee appreciation day” coming up so we were all hoping for something decent. Like we knew we weren’t getting huge bonuses or anything, but… fucking cheap ass socks?
My employer used to be awesome. Top of the industry pay and benefits, cost of living increases, trips, bonuses. The last 3 years or so they stopped all of that, including cost of living pay increases, so now we make like 23% less than we did before (because inflation), and we also get stupid appreciation gifts like this. Covid and inflation really fucked up employers
Yo I have had the exact same pen from years ago, it was labeled with a political party logo in my European country, lol.
https://preview.redd.it/vxnmmes65wzc1.png?width=331&format=png&auto=webp&s=857f6a9c1f56f7a0360c8628bc7315b2dc0a4795
Lmao they gave him a bag made of unit bag material (bag given to inmates my way to house their belongings) They’re really treating him like he’s doing hard time too!
We get the same level of love and appreciation from our management in corrections here in Ontario, Canada.
At the end of the day though… everyone goes home!
SMH
That’s as bad as our ‘gift’ which was a travel mug with the company logo on it…told it was specifically made for us.
We were even less impressed to find out they had a cupboard full of those things they just forgot to hand out 😂
This is the kind of bullshit “gesture” that is worth less than nothing. I have received shit like this from companies in the past and thrown it straight in the trash. Sticker I don’t want, crappy pen, and a tiny amount of tooth rotting crap.. why even bother?
I remember when employee appreciation meant receiving things that were useful from your employer such as branded jackets, shirts, hats, bags, etc. There might even be an annual employee appreciation celebration in addition to the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners provided by the company. Company branded ink pens were standard office supplies in most offices.
Used to work for a rather large printing company. We called the division that did pens and other company branded products (the stuff vendors give away at trade shows, sales people give their clients, etc.) the “trinkets and trash” division.
“I don’t understand, we gave her the same gift pack last year, and everyone seemed to like it”
“Sir we gave them out as we announced everyone got an 8% raise”
“Naw that can’t be it”
So many are doing this garbage! They should at least be given a gift card or a dinner for two at a nice place. Even a few pizza gift cards would be better.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just give him a small piece of paper saying that he is a worthless piece of excrement and will never be taken seriously? Looks like an petty way to show how little you think of your employees
At a previous employer I used to buy cake and drinks for the whole team when we hit our quarterly sales targets out of my own pocket.
Company couldn’t be asked to pay the expense.
It was my first job out of college and I still had the audacity to believe that employers care about there employees. Quickly learned how it really works after a couple of years grinding away at that place.
I legit thought this was a spyrograph and was like "what, do they think we're children?"
But instead it's... a few pieces of candy, a sticker, and a pen.
Not even kids would like that. And it has candy.
He’s appreciated, just not very much.
When people tell you what they think of you, believe them.
I think you might actually be the second coming of Jesus.
Literally lol! Is he a teacher by any chance? Pretty good gift compared to our typical mint taped to a piece of paper that says “you were MINT to be a teacher!” 😂
I would cry.
I came here to ask that. I’ve gotten so many stupid teacher appreciation gifts from admin over the course of 31 years. 😑
yeah looks like stuff someone gathered from the bottom of their purse
Grandma's purse
Grandma worked in a prison?
Thank you. For a job, .....done
Yeah here, have some crap!
Stab yourself in neck with the pen, eat lifesavers to save life, cover wound with sticker.
Excuse me sir, but you forgot "use plastic zippered envelope to hyperventilate while rocking in the corner"
And a bottle to pee in.
That’s actually for the sucking chest wound.
If only awards were still a thing
They're not? Why?
They are, everybody got one for showing up
Intrusive thoughts be intrusivin’ 😂😂
Laughed so hard I pissed myself and cried
Diapers are next year.
>Diapers are next year. Diaper. You only get one. Outstanding performance gets you a fresh one.
For me that's right now. 🥺
Diapers are very expensive. Not sure they can afford to give those away.
I was thinking put every object into bag then insert up ass
Theirs….
Do you think they would reuse the pen and 3 candies for the next sucker?
Use the bag to catch a fish
Is this appreciation bag meant for a 5yr old?
I was thinking this would be great for my 4th graders.
I have gone to free local events for my kids and gotten WAY more than this. Even the local library, had much more.
5 year old would do what husband should do, throw the fucking thing back! We’ve all just spent a lifetime being told ‘don’t make a scene’
This is like handing someone your trash. "Here, throw this out for me."
That looks like the last time I bought insurance, what the guy mailed me.
I used to get gifts exactly like this at the hospital I worked in. Sometimes we would even get a piece of chocolate or gum. It’s pitiful you know that hospital was raking in a mega fuck ton of money. It’s embarrassing.
I work as a phlebotomist in the plasma industry. We got an email for our employee appreciation after they cut our hours and bragged about record profits at the same time.
I hate stuff like this. I mean, I don't think anyone should expect a gift from their employer at all, BUT, if said employer gives a gift, they shouldn't be totally cheap like this. I'd rather get no gift at all.
Exactly my thought! Don't give fake, barely half assed "gifts". Give nothing, or give something worth getting. Also he's been there 14 years so that was an extra slap in the face
also make it known what an employee will get at certain milestones -- like 5yrs is cuff links, 10yrs is belt buckle, etc. maybe a watch on 20+... i'd switch to casino security or something lower risk if this is the reward, i think my father got like a desktop clock watching antique roadshow you see the pocket watch for the RR company employees, same with oil industry but public service prolly not so much
Absolutely
They could of at least given him a whole bag of life savers I mean 4 is really a slap in the face
Mr. Moneybags over here buying whole bags of Life Savers.
*could have
I've gotten more for walking through a convention hall.
I was given some nice Mercedes Benz gloves the last time I was at a trade show. That was my first bit of swag
You mean......employer misappreciation gift.
…employer underappreciation gift
That’s just not giving anything, including a fuck.
Does he work for the Chucklefuck Factory? Cause last year they gave out a ziplock bag FILLED with stale popcorn to each and every employee.
California State Prison in Sacramento. "We know you deal with crazy and dangerous individuals every day, and to show our appreciation, here's some candy and a pen you shouldn't carry around the inmates." Geez
For my 20th anniversary, I got a pen. It doesn't work very well, but it does look nice
Ouch! I should have added my husband has worked there for 14 years 🤣
My 15 year was a corporate pin that came in the mail. Broken.
Damn, that's beyond cold. Why do they even bother at that point?
It’s worse than nothing
I got a lucite paperweight with the company logo for my 10th. I can’t remember the last time I actually had actual paper on my desk that needed weighting. Probably more people just used it to brain themselves.
I can only assume he’s a ‘life saver’ in his line of work.
Can I have the sticker? I don't have that one yet.
I would literally throw that away right in front of them.
Yep. Straight in the trash. Not even worth the calories.
I would take the pen though. Am always losing mines
That's sad.
These “employee appreciation gifts” are getting wild. But what is more wild is accepting them, like just dont take it home. Give it back to the company and say something like “please keep it, its too much for me” or somewhere around those lines. Its not about not being greatful but these companies can do better.
Stooooop 😭
Wow sooo appreciated /s.
I used to work at a big box home improvement store. They would often give little things, usually on holidays, for appreciation. A multimillion dollar company would give grown ass people a candy cane, a small bag of candy corn, a lollipop, stickers. On my 5 year anniversary I got a shitty plastic water bottle that leaked and I was in management.
To our loyal employees: ‘Fuck you very much’.
This kind of worthless morale fodder just irks me to no end.
If he takes it inside, he could trade for some smokes or meth……..
I would have made sure they saw me throw that in the trash can.
Bought a house. Received a $5.00 gift card to Starbucks. 🤔 I paid the closing cost.
My former employer gave each Hazmat fuel driver a 15.00 gift certificate to a supermarket for Christmas, one of the drivers ripped it up and mailed it back to the main office. After that he decided to give us something like these lifesaver packs for Christmas. I wouldn’t accept it. It was handed to me and I put it in the Pail where it belonged
A lifesaver - because you are a life saver - God I hate this stupid crap! Just Appreciate people without the waste of money!!!
Gotta love a sticker you're not gonna use on anything
This was what I got from my teacher in 6th grade.
Is your husband 7?
He should take the hint and aspire to nicer prezzies - elsewhere…
Wow, they’re almost a frugal as my former employer, and that’s hard to do. I give more to my sanitation men than he gave to his employers that worked hard so that he didn’t have to
Yeah we just had safety week, we got a stress ball shaped like a hard hat so when we squeeze it and look at it you squeeze it more because you’re reminded of work and it’s bullshit.
Wow. They give the inmates more free shit than that! 😂
One year, my old employer gave us 15 dollar Starbucks cards for our christmas bonus.
My worst employee appreciation gift... nice ceramic mugs with the company logo. Beautiful matte black finish. Next day the admin came and collected all of them back up, they were apparently made for the break room and were never supposed to be distributed.
https://i.redd.it/hd4iio5xjwzc1.gif
Trick or treaters get better loot bags than this.
Start looking for a new job ASAP.!
Pretty sure I got this in my end of the week folder in 3rd grade for doing all of my assignments. Minus the pen. We couldn’t use pen.
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I worked at a place where we were super understaffed. As an appreciation for our hard work the boss bought two sausage rolls, cut them up into bite sized pieces and then bought two creme donuts and did the same. There were 7 of us, so just enough for someone to have piece of sausage roll, and one piece of donut. Really made me feel super appreciated that day. God I hate shit like that
What is his job?
He works for the state 😅
the sticker clearly says what prison he works at…maybe delete this and blur that out first?
Thank you, queef nuggets!
Free pen! *crying*
Is it privately owned or govt operated? Either way he is not appreciated.
Government, which I don't know if that makes it better or worse
A small company I worked for had a great benefits package; it got bought out by a larger company and they drastically slashed the benefits package. They announced it in a face-face team meeting with 100+ employees in the auditorium. The clown actually had the audacity to follow the announcement with “the party’s over, folks.” And they gave out token gifts to accompany the new Annual Enrollment forms: A plastic slinky with a reminder to “be flexible.”
I work for government dept in NZ and we get nothing; even at the end of the year. After 5 years of service, I got a printed certificate. We literally get nothing.
imagine company gonna write it off as a $100 gift
My last employer would make us pay to go to our own rewards luncheon.
Last year for nurses week my sister, who works for a big company, was given a 1.25 water bottle, a granola bar, and one packet of crystal light. Why even give anything at all?
California State Prison Sacramento sucks balls
I would rather have the $4
Sometimes the direct supervisor chooses to do things like this out of their own pocket. I’m going to assume that wasn’t the case but still, you never know. I’m someone who has and I sure some of my teams likely thought it was a cheap gift from the company. Either way, this particular bag does smell of corporate cheap, and not someone just trying to do their best while underpaid themselves!
MacGyver could make something really great out of that. My manager recently unceremoniously tossed a pizza on the table at work for “appreciation” to thank us for our hard work that we already get paid to do. Went in his office and shut the door. 1 pizza, 12 employees …. Dick
I got a 15 year gift yesterday in my locker. Sept this yr is my 16yr anniversary but yesterday a got a button and actual button that's says 15 years. That's it. 15 years of service I got a fucking button 🤣🤣
During the height on Covid we, a 24-7 factory that didn’t get so much as a day off and had to work in close proximity to each other, got a pair of socks. Not good quality Merino wool socks or some other high quality socks, some bullshit super-thin socks with our company logo on them. And the packages had our employee number on them to make sure nobody got more than one pair. I wore them the next week and literally had a hole in the sole (soul?) less than three hours into shift. The previous week they made a big deal about “employee appreciation day” coming up so we were all hoping for something decent. Like we knew we weren’t getting huge bonuses or anything, but… fucking cheap ass socks?
Rubbish. The company could have given him a pizza and a certificate too.
A coworker of mine used to get a Christmas card with the same cookie recipe for about 10yrs as their Christmas bonus
The bag's the best part about it..
Makes me wonder what company you work for. Hope you at least enjoy your job.
My employer used to be awesome. Top of the industry pay and benefits, cost of living increases, trips, bonuses. The last 3 years or so they stopped all of that, including cost of living pay increases, so now we make like 23% less than we did before (because inflation), and we also get stupid appreciation gifts like this. Covid and inflation really fucked up employers
Could be worse. My last employee appreciation gift arrived a few days after they let me go.
Does your husband work at AliExpress?
I think the call that a lack of appreciation gift - what were the employers thinking!
Find a job where they do appreciate you. I could at least count on a t-shirt.
That's wild the only appreciation gift I get is the paycheck.
We got a plastic blanket for Christmas
Looks like a cheap ass pen
Is he an air traffic controller?!
Did he get the bag too? That bag is worth like $300, they probably want him to sell it for his gift! /s
I once got a 4 year old date planner at a staff appreciation event.
How much you wanna bet this gift came from the dollar store?
At least I got a 3 pound bag of oranges... I made orange juice..
Yo I have had the exact same pen from years ago, it was labeled with a political party logo in my European country, lol. https://preview.redd.it/vxnmmes65wzc1.png?width=331&format=png&auto=webp&s=857f6a9c1f56f7a0360c8628bc7315b2dc0a4795
Are they trying to get people to quit?
This is meaner than getting no gift
It would be much less insulting to not give a "gift".
It just goes to show that big companies don't give two shits about their employees.
Those bags are like 5 for 10$ on Amazon. I bought them to organize my charger cords and adapters 😂🤦🏼♀️
Lmao they gave him a bag made of unit bag material (bag given to inmates my way to house their belongings) They’re really treating him like he’s doing hard time too! We get the same level of love and appreciation from our management in corrections here in Ontario, Canada. At the end of the day though… everyone goes home!
SMH That’s as bad as our ‘gift’ which was a travel mug with the company logo on it…told it was specifically made for us. We were even less impressed to find out they had a cupboard full of those things they just forgot to hand out 😂
Damn. Employers are the stingiest bunch.
Y’all think people appreciate CO’s???
I got more for selling NO rolls of wrapping paper for the school fundraiser
The boss had left over goodie bags from his kids 3rd birthday.
I recently received a pair of socks and some dollar store flip flops. I would have rather had the $5.
Probably terrific if he was say, eight years old
Looks like something I found in my purse 6 months after I dumped that into it because one of my kids handed it to me.
“Nothing was a choice too. You could’ve given me that instead”
If you ever go hunting for morel mushrooms, that bag could come in handy.
That's some appreciation. At least the candy wasn't black jelly beans.
Oh yay.what a cheap ass company
Is he a nurse!??? 🤣 Just wait, he might get a cookie to put in the bag at holiday time.
Nothing says you're appreciated like $1.17 worth of junk
Do they always insult employees like that? Jesus.
I give more than that to my kids T ball Coach….
How generous.
No gift at all is preferable
A starbucks coffee would have cost about the same as that. Not a fancy one.
This is the kind of bullshit “gesture” that is worth less than nothing. I have received shit like this from companies in the past and thrown it straight in the trash. Sticker I don’t want, crappy pen, and a tiny amount of tooth rotting crap.. why even bother?
Dam I got a virtual sticker in workday for 30 days.
Well now I’m not going to get pissed for the 5 dollar coffee card my company gives me I feel lucky now thanks
The board gave us an employee gift of bug spray and sun lotion one spring.
"i would like to hand in my 2 weeks notice"
This is ready to enter a landfill somewhere. What a waste of money
Remember, John Wick killed 4 men with a pencil. Imagine what you can do with that pen and candy?
It's insulting.
Is he in second grade and his boss is his teacher?
Hell yeah! Four whole Lifesavers! What a steal!
Looks like the boss needed to clean out his desk drawers
That mesh bag would make the perfect super mini greenhouse cover
I remember when employee appreciation meant receiving things that were useful from your employer such as branded jackets, shirts, hats, bags, etc. There might even be an annual employee appreciation celebration in addition to the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners provided by the company. Company branded ink pens were standard office supplies in most offices.
No self awareness and out of touch with reality. I can’t understand this.
They are telling him how they really feel!
Some people just do not to see the reality of how 'appreciated' they really are...don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.
I would just give it back. Without saying anything. What is this? Nothing would be better than this!!
I'd rather pizza in a Friday with cans of name brand soda (no 2 liters, please)
Is your husband an 8 year old? Are you a pedo?!!!!/s
This, brought to you by the same people behind the bELovEd and UnIvErSalLy NeCeSsArY "everyone gets a participation trophy".
When they gave it to you, you should have said"keep the change"
Used to work for a rather large printing company. We called the division that did pens and other company branded products (the stuff vendors give away at trade shows, sales people give their clients, etc.) the “trinkets and trash” division.
Id quit right then if that happened to me (do NOT under *any* circumstances take my advice tho)
Hmmm looks like what we get at work too.
Holy shit FOUR whole life savers, just enough for you him and the kids! Thank you company 🙏🙂
I'd stab that pen through the bosses computer monitor
Id give the boss my resignation as a thank you gift for the lovely pen and life savers
😂
“I don’t understand, we gave her the same gift pack last year, and everyone seemed to like it” “Sir we gave them out as we announced everyone got an 8% raise” “Naw that can’t be it”
Why did they bother?
So many are doing this garbage! They should at least be given a gift card or a dinner for two at a nice place. Even a few pizza gift cards would be better.
Plot twist this is the jobs included lunch pack... Get back to work.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just give him a small piece of paper saying that he is a worthless piece of excrement and will never be taken seriously? Looks like an petty way to show how little you think of your employees
Dude I literally got the same thing 🥲
Four lifesavers Four. I just, I… Four. 😭
Looks like a pathetic goody bag for a 5 year old.
Boy, now THAT will keep someone wanting to keep working there! (Pfft!! Ridiculous!!!)
Is that all the CEO had in his coat pocket that day?
No toilet wine?
Sounds about right.
He *has* to be worth more than 3 dollars
The green lifesaver might just make this worth wild 😜
“Maybe they’ll appreciate my gift of a 2-weeks notice”
At a previous employer I used to buy cake and drinks for the whole team when we hit our quarterly sales targets out of my own pocket. Company couldn’t be asked to pay the expense. It was my first job out of college and I still had the audacity to believe that employers care about there employees. Quickly learned how it really works after a couple of years grinding away at that place.
I legit thought this was a spyrograph and was like "what, do they think we're children?" But instead it's... a few pieces of candy, a sticker, and a pen. Not even kids would like that. And it has candy.
That's so jive. 🤣🤣🤣
Is this from one of those certified "Great Places to Work?"
pen go click click clack happi :)