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In my first real office job, where everyone was paid a pittance, the employer offered free bagels on Friday mornings. 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.
Top of my list: anything involving food. I’m allergic to casein and whey (proteins found in milk). And any amount of cross-contamination will make me physically sick. Caffeine and alcohol aggravate my mental health issues. This was a disaster at my last job. Every event involving food, one of the following happens: - Pizza party, donuts, cake, etc as rewards. A number of people choose not to eat these because of calo…
It sounds like you are allergic to something else if every restaurant you go to has "cross contamination issues".
I have celiac disease, so I also have a lot of issues with cross contamination at restaurants, and I have problems similar to GP.
I can usually eat at restaurants, but I need to ask a lot of questions and/or make sure I go when they aren't busy, so I can be reasonably sure that the kitchen staff have the time to ensure that my food isn't contaminated. I also need to avoid fast casual restaurants unless it looks like the food bins at the counter have been recently replenished (less risk of utensil contamination).
I simply don't eat at company events, and for that reason I too don't put any value on food as a company gift. I try to eat pretty healthy anyway, so I don't mind being barred from pizza, Italian combo sandwiches, and tacos. When the team goes out to lunch, I usually walk with them to the door of the restaurant, and then go my own way.
That said, GP seems to be carrying a lot of guilt and bearing a lot of emotional burden related to this. Seems like the company work environment might have been disrespectful and/or toxic for other reasons, of which the food issues were a symptom.
I managed to fly in the same week the swag arrived. There were 5+ open boxes of swag visible, but person responsible for handing them out wasn’t available every time I checked. I didn’t matter that my name, size, and selection was on the list. After I went home there was a company-wide email there were “extras” available for pickup in the office. They hadn’t ordered extras, they were the remote employees’ orders.
This happened twice.
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Sorry about that ya'll. We're back up now. The eng team was extremely confused about what had broken our webflow setup (we do some magic with Cloudflare workers to point our marketing pages at at Webflow with a custom domain)... and then I saw that we were frontpage.
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…
Let's say he was giving 500,000GBP. 10% Great right? You have just given folks incentive to plant problems and reap the reward. You might say, they can audit and if you caused the problem, you don't get the reward. Great! Now, let's collude with another team mate, I cause they problem, they fix it, we split the rewards. Once you give monetary incentive, folks start figuring out ways to game it. There was an agreement…
Top of my list: anything involving food. I’m allergic to casein and whey (proteins found in milk). And any amount of cross-contamination will make me physically sick. Caffeine and alcohol aggravate my mental health issues. This was a disaster at my last job. Every event involving food, one of the following happens: - Pizza party, donuts, cake, etc as rewards. A number of people choose not to eat these because of calo…
It sounds like you are allergic to something else if every restaurant you go to has "cross contamination issues".
I’m also in the Midwest. Food safety is a bit of a foreign concept out here.
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…
On other side picking what to give is endless source of anxiety to me.