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Not just employee gifts, but nearly all gifts are valued less by the receiver than the giver. A gift represents a decision made on behalf of the receiver by the giver. In very few situations would the receiver make the same decision as the giver with the same resources. It's assumed that the receiver will use the same resources in an optimal manner, so gift-giving is a net negative. In some circumstances, gifts are v…
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Yeah, lots of the stuff on the list isn't going to piss me off , it's just "meh" at worst. If they handed out $5 gift cards and people didn't want them you know I'd be going around and slurping them up.
This is the tech industry. Lots of people are paid enough that they would be paid more than $5 in the time it takes them to pick up the card.
If it's a 5€ thing for a shop you have to get to first that might actually eat up the benefits already. (I'm in Europe, if I have to go to the city center I'd actually pay 6 € for both ways with public transport and probably 2-4 € in parking (+ gas)).
So yeah, unless I'm taking the bike it would probably not make sense to go out of my way to even cash in a 10 € voucher if it's not online or something I frequent anyway. There are no malls here in a sense that I'd be stopping by on even a monthly basis.
They were shit bagels, and cold, but the employees got to work early on bagel day and they stood in line to get one.
They all seemed to love it as much as I hated it.
A company I know gave all their employees company branded beach towels, sunscreen, water bottles, and bucket hats for Christmas when it was making record profits. Being in the southern hemisphere, beach paraphernalia is seasonally appropriate, but I suspect they would've preferred just being given their share of the money that was spent on company branded products. Or, you know, a bonus because, well, record profits.…
So I had a buddy, he was a junior-ish very talented dev in this big retailer where I was working as well. This retailer obv had massive campaigns for black friday, but also obv very shitty and inflexible systems. This buddy of mine found that the black friday promotions pricings import failed 5 min before midnight. Meaning that not only would there be no black friday pricing, there would be no pricing at all on the s…
But 25$ is quite an embarrassment. Nothing would have been better in that case.
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>The thoughtfulness and kindness what makes a gift, a gift. That gift is priceless for me from now on. It can be a mug, it can be a pin, it can be a watch, or anything. Have a 75-year old friend that thought exactly like this and because of it, her house ended up being cluttered with tons of cat trinkets that she didn't want because her coworkers happen to find out "she likes cats" . So she had cat figurines, cat pot…
I remember a CarTalk episode in which Tom Magliozzi argued that the best kind of gift is an experience . Except when someone is in need of material things, I think he was right
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/man-accidental...
"The flight had been a gift from colleagues and the man felt he couldn’t refuse."
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I remember a CarTalk episode in which Tom Magliozzi argued that the best kind of gift is an experience . Except when someone is in need of material things, I think he was right
Not for this guy it wasn't: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/man-accidental... "The flight had been a gift from colleagues and the man felt he couldn’t refuse."