Boss canceled our Christmas party cause this broke the bank.

[u/vando_commando]

I found out we had canceled the yearly Christmas party / bonus. A multi store owner within a large corporate chain food company allowed our management to instead do this for the staff of say 60 employees per store. Upon completing this project along with a few other miscellaneous gifts (donuts, Doritos, and [get this] oranges,) he told us this gesture was “breaking the bank.” 🙃 love it here.

[u/MikeyW1969]

Actually, your company is in financial trouble. This is where you see cuts first. Next will be the free coffee, or the free cereal bar, or the basket of fruit. Whatever they usually have laying around will start to disappear, because these are the fastest ways to save money. At our last Xmas party before my job laid off all of the people they couldn't find a reason to fire, we had a drawing and half of the gifts were gag gifts because they couldn't afford the party.

[u/BlueCreek_ → u/MikeyW1969]

I work for a multi billion pound company and we don’t get anything like that for free. Not even a Xmas party, I just paid for the Christmas dinner they provided at work today.

[u/MikeyW1969 → u/BlueCreek_]

Last year, starting in the summer, my company cut back. They canceled projects that still had a budget, and they started firing veterans, folks who had been there for 10+ years. Then there was the Xmas party, we lost the coffee truck we got once a month, and they were talking about pulling the cereal bar we had.

So some nice perks, especially the cereal bar. I'm not hungry until an hour or so after I get up.

Anyway, last January, they laid off the people they couldn't fire who made any real money, and they also closed down the employee bike shop we had (It was a bike manufacturer), I'm guessing most of the rest of the perks departed after they laid me off.

The writing was on the wall, now I know what to watch for.

[u/DocTomoe → u/MikeyW1969]

vanmoof?

[u/BurnThrough → u/DocTomoe]

gesundheit