I have a genuine question. So the company I work for are doing two competitions the week of christmas for each shift. The first one being which ever shift decorates a Christmas tree better will receive some “tasty treats.” The second competition being, which ever shift has the most completions of company surveys will receive an amazing “pizza party.”
What is it with these multi million/billion companies always resorting to food as a reward for literally everything? They can’t be dumb enough to actually think it’s what the employees want. Why not a gift card? Or just a small bonus? Gas card? Something that would come in handy during this time of inflation where everything is godly expensive. The more and more I look into it, the more I find this is the case. It makes me feel like I’m in grade school all over again. We don’t want your cold pepperonis as compensation for working our asses off. We want money.
So my question… am I just overthinking the whole thing? Or is this something we can mostly all agree on? It seems to be the case in a lot of occupations.
“You guys just broke a quarterly record! Guess what… we will have cold pizza waiting for you in the lunch room.”