A Boss We'd Like To Have

From Tama:

I had a customer come through my line today, and honestly, I would really like to work for this guy.

Why?

He plops a bunch of gift cards down, and I started to ring up the items on the belt (thinking he is paying for the items with the mass amount of gift cards), and he says, "No, no, those are hers--" (the woman behind him in line) and then said, "Just buying gift cards for my employees...."

Yup.

Several $15, some $25 ones, some $50 ones, one $200 and one for four hundred dollars!

This man spent $1,420 on gift cards for his employees.

Don't we all wish our bosses could be so kind.

Comments

[Stevie]

My company likes to think of gift cards as rewards for being the best corporate lackey possible. Currently, for every credit card we open, we get $2 on a gift card. I never ask "guests" if they want one, but I'm still due for $6...not that I want to buy any of the shit there. I wish my boss were as cool as that guy!

[Michael]

Man, this is the first year my store isn't giving out gift cards at Christmas. They weren't for our store, they were for the grocer across the street ($100) and the Bullseye store down the road (also $100).

This year we just got a pathetic form letter saying that this was the hardest year the stores have had since opening its doors... well I know the truth is that it's been the hardest for ONE of the stores, and keeping that one open instead of just closing it down has sucked up the profits from the store I actually work in.

So we at the successful store are being penalized for another store's failings.

[Little Bummer Boy]

We had the gift cards given out at a xmas party- no gift card if you couldn't make it that night.(the store's lazy chick who does nothing but sucks up to management got the biggest $ gift card- how random was that random giveaway?)
And the party was a potluck-employees had to bring food. And it was "employee/family shopping night"-with no special discounts or sales reserved for employees.

[Kit]

Niiiiiiice!!!! The only way we get free gift cards from management is if: (1) we win the national gift card competition, (2) we become the Quarters Employee of the Month, or (3) you spend about five hours of your life up to your ankles in shit water that's flooded the receiving room one week after you've had surgery (true happening, couldn't eat solid foods for 5 days after this).

[Pharmacy_psycho]

Dang. I don't think I've ever worked for a place that offered a Christmas bonus or gift card. When I worked at a large boarding kennel we had a dinner out for all the employees, and when I worked at the vet's office, I got lunch one day at Christmas. Neither one of them was overly exciting, but it was food.

My ex took me to a few of his Christmas parties, but they got worse and worse over the years till we just stopped going. The drunks got obnoxious and it was no fun to be there. I guess it doesn't help that I just have no interest in drinking.

[Liz]

Before the Virgin Megastore closed in NYC, we got gift cards monthly for being the highest grossing store in the country... Anywhere from $25-40. This happened up until the day we closed--when we were the only one left in the whole country and won by default. Best retail job ever.

[Kellee]

I'm lucky enough to work for an amazing company that believes in rewarding its employees. I'm an assistant so every single month I spend at least $2500.00 on gift cards and prizes for our employees!

[Ana]

Lucky. I did get a gift card from management, along with a few of the other people who had stayed late one night to help restock after some punk kids broke a tone of merchandise having a fight. I stayed late because the manager at the time was a close friend of my mom's and had helped me get the job. The job took until like six in the morning, because we also got roped into doing some other shit. And on top of this we weren't getting paid. So we got a hundred dollar gift card from the store as payment. Well the next morning, after I spent it on groceries, we were told we had to give them back and if not then it was coming out of our paycheck. Hell no. It didn't work, but the manager was fired. I ended up quiting.