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1 dozen krispy kreme glazed donuts is like $8
Counterpoint: a dozen chocolate covered donuts are under 3€ in Lidl. Same size as a KKD, made fresh in store that day too
When I worked at eBay, we had a bonus program based on company revenue. It was around 6% of your salary max and managers got around 25% max based on the same formula. For the first few years, you could count on getting a max bonus every quarter. To the point where most everyone who worked there had always gotten one. And the one quarter, we didn't get the max bonus. In fact, I don't think we got it all. People scream…
Honest question, what's a reasonable solution for a small company (since it's easier to do thought experiments on a small company). You're a business owner. You hire 3 people. You pay them salaries. That year the company does really well. You want to thank your employees. You're not going to just give them raises because there's no guarantee you'll do as well next year It sounds by Netflix logic you should just keep…
I would just give them a little bit more than standard annual cost of living raise, maybe 4-5% instead of 2%.
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I take about 3-5 weeks of vacation a year + our 14 company holidays. I typically do one big road trip for ~2 weeks and then a week randomly through the year plus random days fishing, doings tuff with kids or just taking a break from work. I could never do that having to accrue
You could if you lived in Europe, where you must get at least four weeks minimum vacation per year (plus public holidays).
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If you want to be real pedantic I can counter with the fact that at least in the US and with the “at-will” contract just because they promised you 25 days of vacation doesn’t mean you can take it whenever you please or at all.
If you get fired befoee the PTO do you get the money they stocked for you?
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Yeah, seems like a straightforward choice. > Paying the bonus. Gimme, gimme! > Improving office amenities. Not bad, but... it would depend on how much money we are talking about, and what office amenities it would buy. For example, once I got a new $1000 office chair that felt less comfortable than the old cheap one -- I definitely would have preferred the cash. On the other hand, once I had to work with a barely fun…
"I can do it myself", "I don't need you" etc. - you're being slightly misanthropic here. Why are you assuming GP's employees don't want to do anything together? Even about office amenities - you're assuming it's several units of something personal. Maybe it's setting up a recreation room, that everyone can use? Maybe people want to install a skylight for their workspace, or set up some indoor plants with water drips…
I try to keep my job separated from... well, everything else. I can be quite anthropic in my free time, with people I choose freely of economic consequences.
> Why are you assuming GP's employees don't want to do anything together?
If they do, then I have no objection. People are different, probably any choice is going to make someone unhappy.
> set up some indoor plants with water drips and stuff
Ok, I'd like this one.
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Couldn't disagree more. Want to see employees work hard and be motivated? Give them equity that is a meaningful amount. I know it works for me... I work 10x harder for my current job where I have equity and stock bonuses than at previous jobs that were all salary.
Do you work at a large company?
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I allow my boss to be very demanding. Want me to take an important customer call during holidays? Sure, I can convince my wife to allow that. Want me to work a week in a different timezone? Let me check first, but should be doable. But. Do. Not. Ever. Touch. My. Compensation! Being promised 100% but arbitrarily receiving 30% would be a no-go for me.
> I allow my boss to be very demanding. Want me to take an important customer call during holidays? Sure, I can convince my wife to allow that. Want me to work a week in a different timezone? Let me check first, but should be doable. That's a really hot take. That shows that the company is very fickle and very bad about planning. And frankly, I'm not going to shed a tear if they badly planned a business meeting on my…
But I agree with you. "Available randomly" is something I charge for.
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If you get fired befoee the PTO do you get the money they stocked for you?
Fired might be different, but if you leave some places won't pay out vacation or only 50%. Some places have learned not paying out banked leave leads to poor outcomes but others still get away with it. Not paying out vacation is a good way to get someone to take all their vacation right before they leave so you get no time to offload work.