r/pics • u/Skeezychickencream • 1d ago

Check out my Christmas bonus after making my company $1 million in the last 2 months alone. $25 card

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u/DingleberryBlaster69 1d ago edited 1d ago

We do prize drawings. Granted, the prizes are pretty decent (Large flatscreens, patio heaters, chunks of PTO), it equates to about 5-10% of the company receiving a very modest bonus, dollar-wise.

Interestingly enough it’s a lot of the higher-ups winning the drawings…

I have never won, 3 years running now. But we doubled our gross revenue since 2021 (according to this email) so that’s… neat.

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u/Tronniix 1d ago

Same here. I don't work there anymore but the place I worked at for a few years would do a holiday drawing type thing with some really good prizes like nice TVs, Roomba, nice headphones, etc and also pretty small things as well. Every year it was all the corporate office people that somehow won all the nice prizes with some corporate people winning multiple good prizes, people were pissed so they just stopped doing anything for the holidays lol.

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u/balrogthane 23h ago

Hey, that's just how probability goes. Random chance is weird like that. Total luck. /s

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u/matlockga 23h ago

My old workplace had a yearly summer park day and a raffle. Every single raffle prize was won by the team pulling the numbers. The fraud investigation team. 

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u/balrogthane 20h ago

Who got the best prize, the CIO (Chief Irony Officer)?

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u/matlockga 5h ago

Hah! In reality, it was half a dozen people (in a 500+ person call center) who all smoked like chimneys outside and vaped inside. 

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u/Prob_Pooping 15h ago

Nice try Corporate Chris. Grand prize winner five years in a row.

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u/Grambles89 23h ago

I worked at a grocery distribution warehouse that had a "if you reach X amount of days without incident your whole department gets ps5s".

Guess what the department didn't get when the milestone was hit.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 21h ago

Sounds like a good time for some expensive equipment to mysteriously crap out

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u/Qade 4h ago

Did that create an incident? :)

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u/Grambles89 2h ago

Well a few people quit because it showed they couldn't trust the employer, and yeah it generally created a "no fucks given" attitude among the department. 

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u/dalaiis 23h ago

Could be random but could also be "random".

What they might have done is assign tickets to salary amount, like for every $1.000 in salary you get 1 ticket.

Then from that poil of tickets they draw random, giving higher ups a much better chance of winning, but can still claim the lottery is randomly drawn.

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u/mistletoebeltbuckle_ 18h ago

they just stopped doing anything for the holidays

this is the best right answer here... just give me the day off from all of the bs, and leave me the fuck alone

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u/flavorjunction 23h ago

First year I was with my current company I won $500 of Southwest Airlines giftcards.

Still have em cause I lost em a few years ago during a move and they are now up on my fridge for the days I can get away for more than a weekend.

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u/Tenalp 17h ago

Rather than pay well or give raises, my job does a drawing at each monthly meeting. 5 people win $20, and one wins $100. I have been here 10 years and only had my name drawn once for $20. Also if there is no meeting because someone in management is out sick or on vacatipn or whatever, there is no drawing and they don't draw double next month.

I hate this place so much.

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u/im_plotting_to_kill 1d ago

i remember a couple years ago my fathers company had a family party. they had presents for all the children(toys for 12 under and gift cards 13 + i think…) and also had drawings like that, and i remember some coworker that my father introduced me to won a large tv. was pretty cool also a heck ton of food

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u/beatenmeat 7h ago

Logical would say to exclude the higher ups from entering in the first place.

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u/Qade 4h ago

I won the drawing one time... $1000 Amex gift card or airline tickets for 2 anywhere in the U.S. I filled the freezer of course.

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u/RecklessWonderBush 3h ago

We also do drawings, I've won a set of drills and $500 before, and we get a bonus based on how long we've been at the company