Managment told us we would be running a contest to see who could sell the most protection plans on furniture and electronics item with the top 2 employees winning “expensive” grand prizes. I should mention that these plans, which we have no incentive to sell we recieve no extra compensation or any sort of commission for these often hundreds of dollar sales with the plans just being pushed as they are one of the companys easiest money makers. Got stupidly excited hoping i could impress the store managers by being top place despite being the newest employee in the store. Worked harder than normal and to be honest harder than i should for the wage i am paid, and came in second me a new employee sold the second most number of plans.How did my gracious company, whom i single handidly just made thousands of dollars, show appreciation for the initative. A goddamn shredder that was a clearance item in the store, which i cant even put anywhere in my tiny apartment and that i would have no use for, instead of giving me a gift card or anything else slightly useful a shredder that they just grabbed from inside the store. Definetly wont let myself get suckered into giving more effort on the companies behalf for “PRIZES” ever again. Just kind of a little rant cause i feel extremely unvalued almost like its a joke to them.
TLDR; was awarded with a clearance item off the floor coming runner up in a sales competition.