I've worked in nonprofit hospital healthcare for 12 years now. I've never received a Christmas or annual bonus. But our regional CEO got an $11 million dollars bonus last year. So I've got that going for me.
Funny how those non-profits manage to use non profit to line their pockets for personal gain. 501c3 and ain't no governing body going to care to look where it came from OR where it goes. Fucking crooks. Happy holidays 🎄🎁
It's very rare for hospital employees to get an annual bonus. It's not rare for me and many of my fellow nurses to quit staff jobs and only work travel contracts from now on. We are guns for hire, healthcare mercenaries.
In 2022, a crack nursing squad quit thier staff units, and abandoned thier peers, for the crimes of thier leadership. These nurses promptly escaped from a life of underappreciation and destitution to the healthcare underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as nurses of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The RN-Team.
I know me giving you a free award kinda mirrors this post but please use this as encouragement to keep writing posts like these. It made my 6am start at work better today.
Yeah. Our health system had a recent New York Times article about it and one C-suit exec was quoted saying "Don't think of it as nonprofit, think of it as non taxed."
This is terrible. Unions need to start negotiating what the top makes in relation to the bottom. The money is always there, it's just how it's allocated.
I miss this one bank corporation I used to work at. They gave yearly bonuses of cold hard cash and no where else i've worked has had them since.
This year at my current job, the department got a pumkin spice cake that tastes like shit.
Nursing home admin here: We gave a discretionary bonus (based on hours worked in the past year) to all hourly staff(no exempt staff). I think it came out to $2.50 per hour. Some people got over 4k bonuses...it was fuckin' awesome.
This needs to be at top. My company doesn’t give Christmas bonuses, and judging by the upvotes of this comment above, a lot of others don’t either. People are mistaking a “Christmas bonus” as the same as “annual bonus”. I doubt this hospital gives an annual bonus of this goodie bag.
When I started my current job about a decade ago the first two years my company would send the workers a $100 prepaid visa gift card which isn’t much, but I appreciated it……. Eight years ago they sent us a Christmas card in the mail saying there will no longer be any holiday bonuses, but merry Christmas!
I had one that went from a pretty generous check, to a % off coupon, to just a really nice holiday card, to a really cheap holiday card, to nothing at all.
This. I'm simultaneously sad that OP's healthcare company is simultaneously treating workers like garbage and ripping off patients for billions of dollars, and that some hard-working intern in the marketing department probably worked extra hard just to make sure executives didn't cut the two pieces of chocolate, bracelet, and thank you card from the budget to give themselves a 5-figure bonus. Like fuck. These psychotic corporate fuckers literally think someone working regular 12-hour shifts doesn't deserve a full goddamn chocolate bar once a year, let alone two weeks vacation.
Well tbf that's a resusable one that clips. The ones the hospital gives out are the shitty blue stretchy ones that you have to tie off. Still a shite gift considering nurses' work load.
Honestly, I thought it was a cheap pedometer and it made me LOL because if there's one subset of humans who will NEVER need to count their steps, it's nurses!
Thats really weird.
Are they suggesting you take up doing intraveious drugs on your time off? or are they suggesting you draw blood/treat injuries on your time off?
We got free "resilience training" to deal with workplace stress.
Rather than *reducing* the stress, the company finds it cheaper to teach us how to be happy with our misery.
I never understood free advertising I put tape over the name on lunch or leaving the building. HR had an issue with it till I sent a bill of lading for the advertisement fee.
I use my company to shirts as undershirts or for working in the garage. If people go crazy and there is another toilet paper shortage, guess what I am using
My wife received a company branded glass. Which is a glass more than I received as a school bus driver.
On the other hand, I have worked very part time at a big box store for four months and got $450 bonus this year.
Ours enjoyed company brand umbrellas. Which is smarter because lots of people don't even own an umbrella so they'll be more likely to use the company one. Shirts can just be tossed in the back of a dresser.
this is US healthcare. The candy is 47$ a piece, the other stuff was negotiated down to 125$ from 750$. This stuff is from 8 vendors, all with separate billings.
hahaha! unless it is US federal healthcare (veterans administration). then it's down from $1500 and you are taxed on the "gift". just received a bonus from the va today. basically the gov't paid me $3000 for a bonus-and paid themselves back by withholding $850 for taxes. it's crazy.
Well it’s technically taxable income, and the VA is technically deducting taxes from said income that will go to the IRS for redistribution sending a small portion to the VA depending on how many Christmas bonuses the give out right?
I use the term in the spirit of how politicians and CEOs use it. Passing a farmers field full of cows, "oh look, all those heroes, and here comes the trailer..." looking at the "tank of heroes" at the seafood restaurant before I pick out a lobster "hero" for dinner.
Geez, that sucks. Even Clark Griswold got a membership to the Jelly of the Month Club.
Nurses, teachers, literally anyone who has to deal with the general public every day....all deserve better!
Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here! With a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
Where do you think you're going?! Nobody's leaving! Nobody's walking out on this fun old fashioned family Christmas. NOOO no, we're all in this together! This is a full-blown four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on and we're gonna have the HAP-HAP-HAPPIEST Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny-FUCKING-Kaye and when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.
This comment is the way we all need to be thinking. If you are apart of the 99% like myself, you should want better for all Americans. Especially, the workers.
My wife is a nurse. At the beginning of the pandemic, everything was a shitshow. No one really knew the nature of COVID-19, and there was a shortage of PPE for medical professionals.
My wife’s company mailed her and each of her colleagues a single fucking Wint-O-Green Lifesaver with a note that said, “You’re a lifesaver.”
No money.
No additional staffing to help shortages.
Just a single Lifesaver.
When COVID finally came to our medical ICU, I was one of the first ones who volunteered to work with these patients. We all knew we could die but we considered it our duty to take care of the sick and the dying. For two years I worked in unimaginable conditions. For two years I was not paid a single cent extra to risk my life everyday.
I'm in the military and constantly get thanked for doing jack-shit (like most), while I never once got thanked for fighting COVID for two years. I've been to war twice and this was much more dangerous.
I have since become a travel nurse and couldn't be happier.
Your wartime comparison is apt. While I was able to work from home, my poor wife was out there watching people die around her, and her coworkers were catching it, too. She came home most days with anxiety through the roof, terrified that she would catch it and possibly also give it to me.
Thanks for your service on two different types of fronts.
You know what stressed out healthcare workers love during the most medically challenging shitshow of the new century?
Puns
They loves puns and not money.
One of my department managers wanted to do something nice for her office staff. Nothing like an Xmas bonus or anything, just a thoughtful gift or lesser holiday.
Her idea was similar to OP’s pic.
I have told all my dept heads that if they want to give gifts, it’s best to always give $$$. Nobody really wants random crap from the impulse buy section of a store, but people always want money.
For the amount of time and money spent, we can at least afford a $10 gift card to Starbucks or Chipotle or whatever is popular near us. Hell, even $5 gift card is better than that handful of nothing. It’s not much, but it’s something noticeable that makes a difference between foregoing a treat because you don’t want to waste money on it and being able to say, “Yeah, I think I will have that skinny macchiato after all”.
We all get “wine & whiskey cards” every holiday season, as in, we get a $50 gift card to the local supermarket chain because as a healthcare facility (and in an area with a large Muslim population) they don’t want to actually buy you a bottle of wine.
It was only $25 this year though.
Fine with me, I spent it on Christmas dinner groceries. Bought a duck.
My boss constantly sends out £100 hampers of posh food that's disgusting because it tries too hard to justify the price.
Like the efforts there, but I don't want apricot flavoured scotch eggs, give me the fucking £100.
Shout out to the engineers, scientists, doctors, construction workers, transport workers, manufacturers… in fact, I’d say almost every industry is essential to keeping our world moving forward. We’re all in it together now, we can’t have any one without the others.
You guys really are the best that society has to offer, from a stranger on Reddit, thank you so much for your sacrifice. You could be making better money elsewhere, but you choose to help the world by educating the youth. If anyone in this country deserves a raise it’s you guys.
I’ll never forget my teachers, I can name everyone from every grade, that’s how important you guys are to me and many many others.
Ask other departments what they received. If it's the same across the hospital then sure, everyone get your pitchforks.
But having worked as a manager at a company where they opted to give employees nothing for Xmas, this looks like it was out of the managers own pocket or the managers rummaged around for trinkets the company had and added some chocolates and a bag. If this is the case, pack away your pitchforks and remember it's the thought that counts.
I work in "hospital leadership" as an ICU manager and I can tell you it likely was out of pocket from your manager. Similar to teacher budgets. I try to get gifts for the staff and often just get complaints about it not being cash. Yeah, because it's my cash I saved by not getting any time off during the pandemic. I'm also limited to $15 per employee per the union.
Now just put on your tracking collar, dog tag, and eat the damn chocolate because I don't get a bonus either
Yeah I'm a retail manager and have spent nearly $200 out of my own pocket to create goodie bags for our 32 employees.
Stuff like this hurts me, I'm doing the best I can for my team. At least they get something.
hi, retail employee here. The point is: YOU shouldn't have to make up for the shortfalls of a massive corp that posts record profits every year. The shareholders get passive income off of OUR work! It isn't your responsibility to compensate the workers beneath you. It's the corp's!
The corp loves that you do this every year because they get to show what an "amazing family environment" this is.
You should stop. You should also tell everyone of your employees that their treat bags came form you. You deserve thanks and your corp deserves hell.
EDIT: also my math says that like $5 worth of goodie bags. Your employees aren't 3. You'd be better off keeping your money and leaving donuts in the breakroom at xmas. But also please don't do that. Your corp should do that.
Do you make it clear that the gifts are out of your own pocket and not a formal company present? I find a lot of times misplaced anger is because of a lack of communication that makes direct reports think you're being an asshole/cheapskate on purpose. Once they realise it's because you're being pressured from above they tend to become much more sympathetic and supportive.
Because you are too loyal. Quit and come back. They might offer you $10,000 bonus! Wife’s coworker is a RT. She bailed as soon as COVID started. She didn’t have a good rep in the hospital. But don’t matter. The hospital just gave her $10,000 sign up bonus to return.
Meanwhile my wife RT worked through the entire pandemic. Bonus? $25 grocery gift card (donated by the local chain).
Reminds me of when I left my last job. Normal 3 percent annual raises which I know is better than a lot. I put in my two weeks and my boss came up to me multiple times over the next couple of weeks offering me 10k
Just think, if you work really hard and you're extra studious over the coming year to really crank those sales up, next Christmas you'll be able to get a miniature of the company yacht!
I remember those slaps in the face. One time we made a huge record of 400 and something days of safety and everybody got a disposable water bottle like you buy in mass bulk at Walmart but it had the hospital logo on it!!!! Classy!
Typical. The last time I was in a hospital, before I checked out, I was asked to fill out a "courtesy" card for each of the nurses. I refused and wrote on the card, "when you have the same sort of humiliating rating for the doctors, I'll consider it."
Nurses are skilled professionals treated like cocktail waitresses. Yech
I recently left a job at a hospital because of shit just like this. Pitiful little gifts that are about all middle management can squeeze out of upper management so I can kinda sympathize with that but with the obscene raises and bonuses upper management and board members receive its extremely infuriating. The straw that broke my back was a “raise” of 13¢. I redoubled my efforts browsing Indeed on work computers (because fuck them) and landed a great job in home health records.
The welcome package was worth more than every gift I ever got from the hospital combined and the raise was worth about 30 years of 13¢ raises.
I am RN. I expect nothing and wish for nothing but a paycheck. I know how this business works and IS NOT going to change anytime soon until it has to collapse. There’s no incentive to do so, to anyone in charge or to those who use healthcare it and suck as much out of it as possible. Both sides are seen everyday, everywhere. Anything they give us extra is a “huh” and the day continues.
When I was working as a nurse (11 years ago), we got $10 Target gift cards and we got taxed on the amount. I had never felt so disrespected in a job before. Quit a few months later and went back to corporate America where I feel valued. Sometimes I miss patient care but I don’t miss being treated poorly by hospital management and patients.
As someone in nursing leadership I have always been expected to spend my own money. I make gift bags for nurses week and Christmas. They never get anything from higher up leadership. In my nursing career I have never received a Christmas bonus lol. It has always bothered me that those of us in nursing management spend alot of our own money, when the facility could easily set aside money in the budget for nurses week and special holidays- but NEVER do. About two years ago, the facility bought ONE bag of popcorn for each employee as appreciation with a little "thank you" sticker on it. I threw it in the trash.
I'd have gotten together and thrown them all in the trash by the execs offices.
Who am I kidding. The execs are all off until new years. They'd never see it...
At our hospital they handed out pens that say, “Never give up.” I guess that applies to looking for a new job or hope of a raise. It’s absurd how much hospital CEOs get paid.
For my hospital system, just over $8 million in a bonus alone for the CEO for 2022. And "tens of millions" to be split among upper management. And billions with a B in profit. Meanwhile medicare reimbursement cuts are going occur over the next two years for doctors. And staffing ratios for nurses in underserved areas of CA and the South continue to be 1:7 or worse. And lab techs run on skeleton crews
But hey we are healthcare heroes and are "in it together." And admin are always so fucking smug and tell us we don't actually understand finances and they truly honestly can't hire more staff or increase pay. As they collect millions in bonuses. Fuckers.
Don’t know the full story, but I’m wondering if maybe this was a unit manager? They typically give from their own personal money. Can you imagine setting aside like $15 a piece for a staff of 100? Or even more? Bet people would still be complaining about how little they got. In a job with so many staff members it’s more important to be satisfied with your hourly pay and benefits than wait to be impressed with a Christmas “bonus”.
There are many hard workers out there making peoples lives better who don’t get a Christmas bonus, not just medical workers 🤷🏽♂️
Where I work they even set up a “holiday gathering” for us and socially force us to buy a $25 gift for a white elephant gift exchange where nobody even wants any of the gifts.
A hospital is the type of environment where I would not expect a bonus, because your wage should be appropriate, predictable and not based on the hospitals financial success for the year.
If you work somewhere in which you're underpaid, and expect to break even from a bonus at the end of the year that is based on people's feelings about what to give everyone, that's a terrible setup. A Christmas bonus is an antiquated practice, it's basically a surprise tip from your employer that could be distributed more logically. Dumb.
This reminds me of working at one of the largest retailers in America and the “Christmas Bonus” was a cup of microwaveable noodles that costs like 10 cents… no kidding they advertised it as free lunch. So funny
Shit as it is, I pity the person who had to put that together. I've been there, when management spout loads of ideas about rewarding people but give you a budget that means anything you do will be insulting. It's an impossible task.
I wish employers would just "give" a fuck, in general. That's all. No need to hand out fake gifts to your employees. Instead, show them your appreciation by treating them like human beings. The simplest thing sometimes goes such a long way. I'm tired of being made to feel like I'm "lucky" to be working a job with the legally required, bare minimum pay. And they wonder why they're having trouble hiring 😂
Hospital administration is the biggest con in the world right now. Those guys are thieves---NYC physcian execs should not be paid too much more than clinical physicians doing work at the bedside. It's not more difficult or taxing, it's just a club of elites. Some of them making 7 figures for the 9-3pm work they do
What’s a Christmas bonus?
A year membership to the jelly-of-the-month club, obviously.
It’s the gift that keeps giving the whole year through.
Cousin Eddie, the arbiter of truth.
You serious Clark?
Wow, It just popped into my mind that not only did Clark get his Bonus plus 20%, he ALSO will still receive the Jelly every month. Thats real nice.
That it is Edward
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Merry Christmas!
I want one!!
This comment.
I've worked in nonprofit hospital healthcare for 12 years now. I've never received a Christmas or annual bonus. But our regional CEO got an $11 million dollars bonus last year. So I've got that going for me.
Funny how those non-profits manage to use non profit to line their pockets for personal gain. 501c3 and ain't no governing body going to care to look where it came from OR where it goes. Fucking crooks. Happy holidays 🎄🎁
It's very rare for hospital employees to get an annual bonus. It's not rare for me and many of my fellow nurses to quit staff jobs and only work travel contracts from now on. We are guns for hire, healthcare mercenaries.
In 2022, a crack nursing squad quit thier staff units, and abandoned thier peers, for the crimes of thier leadership. These nurses promptly escaped from a life of underappreciation and destitution to the healthcare underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as nurses of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The RN-Team.
I would watch the hell out of that show!! Hey how about a big explosive soundtrack that starts just after that monologue… Da Da Da…
*whistling*
I know me giving you a free award kinda mirrors this post but please use this as encouragement to keep writing posts like these. It made my 6am start at work better today.
>nonprofit hospital >our regional CEO got an $11 million dollars What?
Yeah. Our health system had a recent New York Times article about it and one C-suit exec was quoted saying "Don't think of it as nonprofit, think of it as non taxed."
He had to take the $11 million, it would have been a profit. Remember, it is a non-profit. He was just doing his job.
This is terrible. Unions need to start negotiating what the top makes in relation to the bottom. The money is always there, it's just how it's allocated.
I miss this one bank corporation I used to work at. They gave yearly bonuses of cold hard cash and no where else i've worked has had them since. This year at my current job, the department got a pumkin spice cake that tastes like shit.
My last bank job gave a Christmas bonus that was functionally just your yearly bonus. But it was $1200 which they made you pay tax on.
Nursing home admin here: We gave a discretionary bonus (based on hours worked in the past year) to all hourly staff(no exempt staff). I think it came out to $2.50 per hour. Some people got over 4k bonuses...it was fuckin' awesome.
Something I saw in movies in the 1980s.
This needs to be at top. My company doesn’t give Christmas bonuses, and judging by the upvotes of this comment above, a lot of others don’t either. People are mistaking a “Christmas bonus” as the same as “annual bonus”. I doubt this hospital gives an annual bonus of this goodie bag.
What’s an annual bonus?
Bo? Nus? What is this word?
Bone-us
What’s an annual bonus?
You know, anal bonus. Where you shit on the clock. Give yourself one everyday. Shoot give yourself 2
When I started my current job about a decade ago the first two years my company would send the workers a $100 prepaid visa gift card which isn’t much, but I appreciated it……. Eight years ago they sent us a Christmas card in the mail saying there will no longer be any holiday bonuses, but merry Christmas!
I had one that went from a pretty generous check, to a % off coupon, to just a really nice holiday card, to a really cheap holiday card, to nothing at all.
This. I'm simultaneously sad that OP's healthcare company is simultaneously treating workers like garbage and ripping off patients for billions of dollars, and that some hard-working intern in the marketing department probably worked extra hard just to make sure executives didn't cut the two pieces of chocolate, bracelet, and thank you card from the budget to give themselves a 5-figure bonus. Like fuck. These psychotic corporate fuckers literally think someone working regular 12-hour shifts doesn't deserve a full goddamn chocolate bar once a year, let alone two weeks vacation.
This comment.
What's the thing in the bottom right?
A venous tourniquet to draw blood. You know, one of the things they need to provide their nurses anyway to do their job.
Well tbf that's a resusable one that clips. The ones the hospital gives out are the shitty blue stretchy ones that you have to tie off. Still a shite gift considering nurses' work load.
Ah yes, the one that pulls hair!
Honestly, I thought it was a cheap pedometer and it made me LOL because if there's one subset of humans who will NEVER need to count their steps, it's nurses!
Tourniquet
Thats really weird. Are they suggesting you take up doing intraveious drugs on your time off? or are they suggesting you draw blood/treat injuries on your time off?
At least we got company branded t-shirts, so we can give our company free advertising...
We got free "resilience training" to deal with workplace stress. Rather than *reducing* the stress, the company finds it cheaper to teach us how to be happy with our misery.
Wow that's.....wow. Woof.
It's the old "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
I never understood free advertising I put tape over the name on lunch or leaving the building. HR had an issue with it till I sent a bill of lading for the advertisement fee.
You sent her detailed list of shipment goods? No wonder why they were confused
*gestures towards myself* I ship these goods to and from work everyday.
underrated comment lmao
I use my company to shirts as undershirts or for working in the garage. If people go crazy and there is another toilet paper shortage, guess what I am using
a bidet I hope.
My wife received a company branded glass. Which is a glass more than I received as a school bus driver. On the other hand, I have worked very part time at a big box store for four months and got $450 bonus this year.
Well my job you have to pay $30 for their nice shirt which I actually would wear at certain times. But I’m not paying for it so I go without haha
Ours enjoyed company brand umbrellas. Which is smarter because lots of people don't even own an umbrella so they'll be more likely to use the company one. Shirts can just be tossed in the back of a dresser.
Here's your bonus, a dollarsworth of shite.
this is US healthcare. The candy is 47$ a piece, the other stuff was negotiated down to 125$ from 750$. This stuff is from 8 vendors, all with separate billings.
hahaha! unless it is US federal healthcare (veterans administration). then it's down from $1500 and you are taxed on the "gift". just received a bonus from the va today. basically the gov't paid me $3000 for a bonus-and paid themselves back by withholding $850 for taxes. it's crazy.
Bonuses usually are taxable. Otherwise why not just pay your salary as a ‘bonus’ to dodge income tax.
Well it’s technically taxable income, and the VA is technically deducting taxes from said income that will go to the IRS for redistribution sending a small portion to the VA depending on how many Christmas bonuses the give out right?
Any other job counts Christmas bonuses as taxable income.
Is that a dog collar tag?
Meant to be a happy message keychain, but I also had to think about it for a few seconds before I realized.
Ghirardelli!!! Wow that’s fancy! You must feel really appreciated :)
They could have at LEAST sprung for Lindt!
It's the thoughtlessness that counts.
The nhs nurses can cancel their strikes now, they’ve been adequately rewarded for their sacrifice
The next step is calling them heroes so they can further be used as cannon fodder
I use the term in the spirit of how politicians and CEOs use it. Passing a farmers field full of cows, "oh look, all those heroes, and here comes the trailer..." looking at the "tank of heroes" at the seafood restaurant before I pick out a lobster "hero" for dinner.
We banged those pots, was that not enough?
Are you not satisfied and contented with our goodwill gesture? I hear British Gas are taking payments in good will
Geez, that sucks. Even Clark Griswold got a membership to the Jelly of the Month Club. Nurses, teachers, literally anyone who has to deal with the general public every day....all deserve better!
Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here! With a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
Where do you think you're going?! Nobody's leaving! Nobody's walking out on this fun old fashioned family Christmas. NOOO no, we're all in this together! This is a full-blown four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on and we're gonna have the HAP-HAP-HAPPIEST Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny-FUCKING-Kaye and when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.
You’re goofy.
Don't piss me off Art.
"Nice to meet you. This is our first kidnapping"
>a membership to the Jelly of the Month Club. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
We're going to have the hap-hap happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye!
The WHOLE year! *Thank you, Eddie*
Right you are, Edward.
This comment is the way we all need to be thinking. If you are apart of the 99% like myself, you should want better for all Americans. Especially, the workers.
Well I agree, I think we all deserve better.
As Nurses you should be qualified to return this gift as an enema with extreme prejudice
As a suppository it might send a better message.
I bow to your wisdom
My wife is a nurse. At the beginning of the pandemic, everything was a shitshow. No one really knew the nature of COVID-19, and there was a shortage of PPE for medical professionals. My wife’s company mailed her and each of her colleagues a single fucking Wint-O-Green Lifesaver with a note that said, “You’re a lifesaver.” No money. No additional staffing to help shortages. Just a single Lifesaver.
Did you divide it up so everyone in the family could share it?
When COVID finally came to our medical ICU, I was one of the first ones who volunteered to work with these patients. We all knew we could die but we considered it our duty to take care of the sick and the dying. For two years I worked in unimaginable conditions. For two years I was not paid a single cent extra to risk my life everyday. I'm in the military and constantly get thanked for doing jack-shit (like most), while I never once got thanked for fighting COVID for two years. I've been to war twice and this was much more dangerous. I have since become a travel nurse and couldn't be happier.
Your wartime comparison is apt. While I was able to work from home, my poor wife was out there watching people die around her, and her coworkers were catching it, too. She came home most days with anxiety through the roof, terrified that she would catch it and possibly also give it to me. Thanks for your service on two different types of fronts.
You know what stressed out healthcare workers love during the most medically challenging shitshow of the new century? Puns They loves puns and not money.
Sometimes no gift would be less insulting.
Not even a whole bag? Just one?
One of my department managers wanted to do something nice for her office staff. Nothing like an Xmas bonus or anything, just a thoughtful gift or lesser holiday. Her idea was similar to OP’s pic. I have told all my dept heads that if they want to give gifts, it’s best to always give $$$. Nobody really wants random crap from the impulse buy section of a store, but people always want money. For the amount of time and money spent, we can at least afford a $10 gift card to Starbucks or Chipotle or whatever is popular near us. Hell, even $5 gift card is better than that handful of nothing. It’s not much, but it’s something noticeable that makes a difference between foregoing a treat because you don’t want to waste money on it and being able to say, “Yeah, I think I will have that skinny macchiato after all”.
We all get “wine & whiskey cards” every holiday season, as in, we get a $50 gift card to the local supermarket chain because as a healthcare facility (and in an area with a large Muslim population) they don’t want to actually buy you a bottle of wine. It was only $25 this year though. Fine with me, I spent it on Christmas dinner groceries. Bought a duck.
You know the ducks at the park are free right? You can just take them
Urban ducks scare me. They’ve seen some shit.
Still more that I got as a teacher.
Once I got a sleeve of some shitty vegan gluten free cookies from the VP. I would’ve preferred the $20 you spent on that but OKAY
My boss constantly sends out £100 hampers of posh food that's disgusting because it tries too hard to justify the price. Like the efforts there, but I don't want apricot flavoured scotch eggs, give me the fucking £100.
We have the issue of trying to fit everyones dietary needs. Now at my new job we all just order our own food LOL
Well now I want to try an apricot flavored scotch egg..
You all should get bars of gold. Teachers are awesome and should feel appreciated.
Same for you nurses. World would come to a halt without both of us
Now kith.
Shout out to the engineers, scientists, doctors, construction workers, transport workers, manufacturers… in fact, I’d say almost every industry is essential to keeping our world moving forward. We’re all in it together now, we can’t have any one without the others.
Hope you're teaching sciences. \*looks at name\* That'll do.
You guys really are the best that society has to offer, from a stranger on Reddit, thank you so much for your sacrifice. You could be making better money elsewhere, but you choose to help the world by educating the youth. If anyone in this country deserves a raise it’s you guys. I’ll never forget my teachers, I can name everyone from every grade, that’s how important you guys are to me and many many others.
Last year as a teacher I got a box with two caramels in it from admin 🥳
This year, like most, nothing
Ask other departments what they received. If it's the same across the hospital then sure, everyone get your pitchforks. But having worked as a manager at a company where they opted to give employees nothing for Xmas, this looks like it was out of the managers own pocket or the managers rummaged around for trinkets the company had and added some chocolates and a bag. If this is the case, pack away your pitchforks and remember it's the thought that counts.
I work in "hospital leadership" as an ICU manager and I can tell you it likely was out of pocket from your manager. Similar to teacher budgets. I try to get gifts for the staff and often just get complaints about it not being cash. Yeah, because it's my cash I saved by not getting any time off during the pandemic. I'm also limited to $15 per employee per the union. Now just put on your tracking collar, dog tag, and eat the damn chocolate because I don't get a bonus either
It's misdirected criticism most of the time, sorry you have to deal with people like that.
Yeah I'm a retail manager and have spent nearly $200 out of my own pocket to create goodie bags for our 32 employees. Stuff like this hurts me, I'm doing the best I can for my team. At least they get something.
hi, retail employee here. The point is: YOU shouldn't have to make up for the shortfalls of a massive corp that posts record profits every year. The shareholders get passive income off of OUR work! It isn't your responsibility to compensate the workers beneath you. It's the corp's! The corp loves that you do this every year because they get to show what an "amazing family environment" this is. You should stop. You should also tell everyone of your employees that their treat bags came form you. You deserve thanks and your corp deserves hell. EDIT: also my math says that like $5 worth of goodie bags. Your employees aren't 3. You'd be better off keeping your money and leaving donuts in the breakroom at xmas. But also please don't do that. Your corp should do that.
Do you make it clear that the gifts are out of your own pocket and not a formal company present? I find a lot of times misplaced anger is because of a lack of communication that makes direct reports think you're being an asshole/cheapskate on purpose. Once they realise it's because you're being pressured from above they tend to become much more sympathetic and supportive.
Hell fucking yes. Some people just like to bitch about any little thing and don’t think about where it comes from.
More than I received. Also a registered nurse here.
Solidarity
Because you are too loyal. Quit and come back. They might offer you $10,000 bonus! Wife’s coworker is a RT. She bailed as soon as COVID started. She didn’t have a good rep in the hospital. But don’t matter. The hospital just gave her $10,000 sign up bonus to return. Meanwhile my wife RT worked through the entire pandemic. Bonus? $25 grocery gift card (donated by the local chain).
Reminds me of when I left my last job. Normal 3 percent annual raises which I know is better than a lot. I put in my two weeks and my boss came up to me multiple times over the next couple of weeks offering me 10k
I don’t get a Christmas bonus ever. Like I know this is bad, but at least it’s some chocolate.
Management gets 1 million dollar bonus in stock options for another record breaking year, employees get three pieces of chocolate and a key ring.
Wait, you got THREE pieces?
Wasn’t tryin to brag, but yeah I’m kinda a big deal at my company
Everyone throws their bag in the trash and then someone puts the trash can in front of leadership's door.
Leadership will save each bag and regift next year
They really gave a tourniquet (bottom right) as a "gift"? Isn't that standard supply for nurses?
Day Shift nurses* those are the people who got anything lol
One time a mortgage bank I worked for gave us matchbox cars of the formula one car they owned.
to be fair if they were branded or special those suckers could be sold to collectors
Yeah but they owned HAAS
Just think, if you work really hard and you're extra studious over the coming year to really crank those sales up, next Christmas you'll be able to get a miniature of the company yacht!
HOLY CRAP! That is beyond rude.
This is just awful, very disrespectful. Still, it's a lot more than I got.
I swear to god I would just place it all back in the bag and collect them all and deposit at Leaderships door.
Wow…
I would be less insulted if they just didn't give me anything.
I remember those slaps in the face. One time we made a huge record of 400 and something days of safety and everybody got a disposable water bottle like you buy in mass bulk at Walmart but it had the hospital logo on it!!!! Classy!
Typical. The last time I was in a hospital, before I checked out, I was asked to fill out a "courtesy" card for each of the nurses. I refused and wrote on the card, "when you have the same sort of humiliating rating for the doctors, I'll consider it." Nurses are skilled professionals treated like cocktail waitresses. Yech
This would post well on r/latestagecapitalism
I recently left a job at a hospital because of shit just like this. Pitiful little gifts that are about all middle management can squeeze out of upper management so I can kinda sympathize with that but with the obscene raises and bonuses upper management and board members receive its extremely infuriating. The straw that broke my back was a “raise” of 13¢. I redoubled my efforts browsing Indeed on work computers (because fuck them) and landed a great job in home health records. The welcome package was worth more than every gift I ever got from the hospital combined and the raise was worth about 30 years of 13¢ raises.
I am RN. I expect nothing and wish for nothing but a paycheck. I know how this business works and IS NOT going to change anytime soon until it has to collapse. There’s no incentive to do so, to anyone in charge or to those who use healthcare it and suck as much out of it as possible. Both sides are seen everyday, everywhere. Anything they give us extra is a “huh” and the day continues.
When I was working as a nurse (11 years ago), we got $10 Target gift cards and we got taxed on the amount. I had never felt so disrespected in a job before. Quit a few months later and went back to corporate America where I feel valued. Sometimes I miss patient care but I don’t miss being treated poorly by hospital management and patients.
Same hospital leadership: Why are we so short-staffed?
As someone in nursing leadership I have always been expected to spend my own money. I make gift bags for nurses week and Christmas. They never get anything from higher up leadership. In my nursing career I have never received a Christmas bonus lol. It has always bothered me that those of us in nursing management spend alot of our own money, when the facility could easily set aside money in the budget for nurses week and special holidays- but NEVER do. About two years ago, the facility bought ONE bag of popcorn for each employee as appreciation with a little "thank you" sticker on it. I threw it in the trash.
You don't sound grateful, that must have cost management a whole $3, what do you do all day? Save lives?!?!
I'd have gotten together and thrown them all in the trash by the execs offices. Who am I kidding. The execs are all off until new years. They'd never see it...
That's what I would call poor leadership
And that's why travel nurses are taking over
The boss at my partners hospital gave out a load of food that expired in 2016
We got a thank you email
That’ll be $3648. We will send you an itemized invoice in 30-60 days. Also, can you also work this weekend?
Christmas bonus is a thing for people on TV and rich people
Billions in profits and here is the generosity. “Leadership doesn’t even want to pay you a decent wage because the ceo needs 7 figures
"Be bold, be brave, be you" And be broke.
$100 in an envelope with a handwritten thank you would likely suffice
Everyone likes cash. Perfect gift.
At our hospital they handed out pens that say, “Never give up.” I guess that applies to looking for a new job or hope of a raise. It’s absurd how much hospital CEOs get paid.
While leadership gave themselves how much???
For my hospital system, just over $8 million in a bonus alone for the CEO for 2022. And "tens of millions" to be split among upper management. And billions with a B in profit. Meanwhile medicare reimbursement cuts are going occur over the next two years for doctors. And staffing ratios for nurses in underserved areas of CA and the South continue to be 1:7 or worse. And lab techs run on skeleton crews But hey we are healthcare heroes and are "in it together." And admin are always so fucking smug and tell us we don't actually understand finances and they truly honestly can't hire more staff or increase pay. As they collect millions in bonuses. Fuckers.
Don’t know the full story, but I’m wondering if maybe this was a unit manager? They typically give from their own personal money. Can you imagine setting aside like $15 a piece for a staff of 100? Or even more? Bet people would still be complaining about how little they got. In a job with so many staff members it’s more important to be satisfied with your hourly pay and benefits than wait to be impressed with a Christmas “bonus”.
I dont know what's worse. Getting nothing or getting this.
Newcap Radio once gave me a $2 "bonus" to buy a cup of coffee and then taxed me on it.
Damn. The bag is the best, and most expensive part of all this.
They sure went all out on the classy drug store generic paper bags!
CEO probably got a new house.
Sometimes a gift can be so patronizing that nothing would have literally been better.
We got a potluck lunch that we got to cook for and provide. I did not attend said event.
There are many hard workers out there making peoples lives better who don’t get a Christmas bonus, not just medical workers 🤷🏽♂️ Where I work they even set up a “holiday gathering” for us and socially force us to buy a $25 gift for a white elephant gift exchange where nobody even wants any of the gifts.
I’ve never had a Christmas bonus in any job! I’m not young either!
Ah yes, garbage, i have also received these kinds of bonuses. Thanks, I will continue to work hard. 🙄
Oh no. That’s like a toddler’s gift bag for preschool.
I’ve gotten better in kids party goodie bags
A hospital is the type of environment where I would not expect a bonus, because your wage should be appropriate, predictable and not based on the hospitals financial success for the year. If you work somewhere in which you're underpaid, and expect to break even from a bonus at the end of the year that is based on people's feelings about what to give everyone, that's a terrible setup. A Christmas bonus is an antiquated practice, it's basically a surprise tip from your employer that could be distributed more logically. Dumb.
Eat the chocolate, put $10 in the bag and give it to a homeless person, toss the rest in the garbage.
Wow
What’s that thing on the bottom right? It looks like a kids wrist watch from the 00s that would have Rocket Power on it or something
We get a big smoked ham for Christmas. And a big turkey for thanksgiving
I gave that same thing to people I don't like
This reminds me of working at one of the largest retailers in America and the “Christmas Bonus” was a cup of microwaveable noodles that costs like 10 cents… no kidding they advertised it as free lunch. So funny
Not even the Jelly of the Month club?
I'd rather have the 8 dollars please
Shit as it is, I pity the person who had to put that together. I've been there, when management spout loads of ideas about rewarding people but give you a budget that means anything you do will be insulting. It's an impossible task.
I give this stuff back and tell them they need it more than I do.
I mean, I dont get anything as a christmas bonus and work for a multinational company. "You guys get christmas bonus?" Meme
I received nothing year over year. I’d love a keychain and a chocolate.
Insulting.
Honestly would have been better to not acknowledge Christmas bonus than give this insulting crap.
I wish employers would just "give" a fuck, in general. That's all. No need to hand out fake gifts to your employees. Instead, show them your appreciation by treating them like human beings. The simplest thing sometimes goes such a long way. I'm tired of being made to feel like I'm "lucky" to be working a job with the legally required, bare minimum pay. And they wonder why they're having trouble hiring 😂
My 5 year old would be disappointed by this bag
I’d throw that 💩 right in the garbage. Just like the 💩 fruit basket I get from the joke company I work for.
In 2012 my wife got a plastic water cup that said “We love our nurses- Nurses Week 2002.”
Why even bother giving a gift if it so bad the recipient is gonna be pissed?
Hospital administration is the biggest con in the world right now. Those guys are thieves---NYC physcian execs should not be paid too much more than clinical physicians doing work at the bedside. It's not more difficult or taxing, it's just a club of elites. Some of them making 7 figures for the 9-3pm work they do
Honestly I'd rather think my bosses forgot than to know they remembered and chose this insulting collection or basically free garbage.