People Share 30 Examples Of Their Hard Work Being “Rewarded” With Nothing

I remember at my old job my supervisor went around and gave us like 20 dollar gift cards to Walmart like the last day or two before our Christmas break.

I remember thinking “wow 20 dollars to Walmart, is that all they can afford?”

BUT THEN I found out actually, my supervisor himself went and bought all of them with his own money for all of us on his shift.

Then I just felt bad for him honestly

My first job out of college I did data analysis that was crucial to my division winning a contract bid that generated $10 million annually (in 1995).

Managers involved in the bid got bonuses of $25k and up.

I got a 4 function calculator with a plaque on it that said "A World Of Thanks".

One colleague that got a 50k bonus asked for it to be split with her and her team of 4 and was told no. So she wrote them all $10k personal checks.

Most supervisors, like myself, only make like 10% more that our staff. I buy my 3 staff a $100 gift card every new year as a thank you. I buy it with my own money and it’s because I truly appreciate them making my life easier.

For 25 years of service at Ford they gave me a “ Have a drink on us” card worth $2 at our cafeteria.

For working double shifts at a nursing home in the pandemic I got a coupon for $15 off a turkey at the grocery store. I’m a vegetarian.

During a new application deployment that had taken 2 years to develop and test, we spent a weekend going through the deployment. A legit Friday - Sunday thing. Management thanked us by giving us a voucher for a free bottle of soda of our choosing from the lunch room. This is a fortune 80 company. I’ve stopped busting my ass ever since.

The job I quit earlier this year was always going on and on about how productivity has been through the roof since me and a couple others got hired. So they gave us more work. When we got that stuff done, more work. And more. And more. I had to miss a month of work due to catching COVID and then the flu immediately after, when I came back they called me a stupid lazy f****r and that I needed to learn how to be a proper employee. I told them to f**k themselves and left. They called my entire family 1 by 1 and begged them to tell me to come back, not even kidding. It woulda been funny if they weren't asshats.

I closed a 7M contract in 2007 and got a slap on the back and a cheap bottle of bourbon. My boss got a Lexus and his boss bought a luxury swimming pool to match his luxury gated home.

My dad worked risk management for American Express. Found an error that would’ve cost 5 mill or so. He got a glass paperweight.

So my dad back in the day worked for a oil company. They where going into a complete 90 day shut down to replace some out dated equipment. The estimated cost of the unit being down was around 1 million a day and a loss of something like 200k barrels of gas. Long story short, he looked over the plans and was able to cut the time down for shut down to 37 days, ended up taking around 40 due to waiting on parts.

He didn’t ask for anything, nor expect it, as he was doing his job as lead operator but when they gave him a $15 Wal-Mart gift card and a card as a thank you, he lost his s**t.

I did process design and scalability R&D on a $30 million/yr production contract. It was like pulling teeth trying to get management to even slightly deviate from very vague and error ridden instructions from the client.

For the sake of my own sanity, I put in a ton of extra hours and did some experimentation with the process. I figured out how to increase yield by about 12% without compromising the quality of the final product or changing the bill of materials. This included proof of concept for suggestions I had brought up even before production began. It took 3 months of convincing before I got the go ahead to test the new process at production scale, during which I also brought up concerns about product safety numerous times.

So to everyone's surprise but my own, the new process was a success. Everyone was happy until regulatory oversight forced a recall of those 3 months worth of production for the exact reasons I had brought up. 4.8 million units. The point where the product was released and not included in the recall? When my new process was fully implemented...

So what did I get in return for saving the company's a*s and keeping the contract from getting cancelled? I got to sue them for wrongful termination and human rights violations...

gf been at her job for 30 years ... had 2 years in a row of perfect attendance .... she got a plastic cup and canvas bag with company logos on them. I told her she should have gotten a raise

Knew a guy that worked with 3 others.

He told me he found a way to cut his workload by 75%.

I told him to keep it under his hat, and coast.

He said his work had a $500 bonus for efficiency gain suggestions.

I told him that unless he was getting evicted and he needed the money to shut the fuck up about it.

He didn't.

They gave him $500

He bought himself a PS4.

They fired his coworkers and dumped all the work on him.

He demanded a raise.

They declined.

He quit.

They replaced him.

During the last 6 months my company had record revenue & profits and got acquired, no promotions and all people got were 2-3% increases. Ive never seen so many people quit, must be over 20 people already in that same timeframe, including me just got a new job with double pay starting next week

A former employer offered me a $500 gift card for a $3m contract. I resigned, and the company I was trying to bring on told them they would never to a contract with them unless I was the one running it.

The company I work for is having its best financial year ever, better than last year which was previously their best financial year ever. They’ve cut payroll across the board and won’t even give their full time employees 40 hours. Bunch of people looking for new jobs now, I hope these greedy f**king companies get f**ked and tank

Years ago, I worked at a tech startup spun off from a major manufacturer. They had their hands in a few different fields like beverage dispensing, RFID, and amusement games. I was moved into their production department and helped them grow their profits from $1m a year to $1m a month consistently the entire time I was in that role. My reward for helping turn record profits was getting fired because an audit showed around $80 in shipping labels wasted. Gotta love it!

I was the principal engineer on the main EMR product my company used. Hell, I was the only engineer.

They had some contractors working on an app that interfaces with it. They eventually dumped tons of bad data into it because they sucked at their jobs. Made it impossible to bill millions of dollars in claims.

I spent two weeks researching their f**kup and fixing it, along with creating and running cleanup scripts.

When I was finally done, they greeted me with a layoff, as they were going to replace me with the vendors who f****d it up in the first place.

My company gave me a lapel pin with the company name on it for my one-year anniversary... on my two year and 3 month anniversary.

I still keep it next to my computer, to remind myself "fuck them, don't do more work than you need to."

I fixed an unsupported out of date application that no one else could figure out, and would have cost the company millions of dollars to replace. That got me a 3.7 out of 5 instead of a 3 on my review.