3-4 months pay bonus
Holy cow, either they have an unusually low salary or they are making a boat load on those bonuses. Good for you mate!
Ask HN: How do you recognize good work and celebrate wins at your company?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you recognize good work and celebrate wins at your company?
#12This is for really small wins, but we have a #celebration channel in slack. It actually works surprisingly well.
Re: Ask HN: How do you recognize good work and celebrate wins at your company?
#13We'd love to but we simply cannot afford it, especially since we're bootstrapping. That's the sad part about boostraping. You spent most time trying to keep food on the table, than actually building something awesome.
On one of my Navy leadership courses the reservist instructor said the most positive and motivating piece of recognition he got was his boss buying him a thank you card and quietly putting it on his desk when he was busy.
If you know your people you should be able to work out what motivates them and come up with something specific. Whatever it is a chunk of money is a very poor motivator as it becomes expected and thus devalued very quickly.
Re: Ask HN: How do you recognize good work and celebrate wins at your company?
#14We'd love to but we simply cannot afford it, especially since we're bootstrapping. That's the sad part about boostraping. You spent most time trying to keep food on the table, than actually building something awesome.
Gratitude and praising publicly doesn't cost much.
Agree. Try to do that as much as possible, whenever it is due!
Re: Ask HN: How do you recognize good work and celebrate wins at your company?
#15We'd love to but we simply cannot afford it, especially since we're bootstrapping. That's the sad part about boostraping. You spent most time trying to keep food on the table, than actually building something awesome.
On one of my Navy leadership courses the reservist instructor said the most positive and motivating piece of recognition he got was his boss buying him a thank you card and quietly putting it on his desk when he was busy. If you know your people you should be able to work out what motivates them and come up with something specific. Whatever it is a chunk of money is a very poor motivator as it becomes expected and th…
That last sentence was very deep and helped put things in perspective. Thank you!