Throwaway because I’m not trying to have HR come after me. Buckle up for one of the weirdest employee appreciation gifts I’ve ever received…
So, this week is employee appreciation week. Today an email was sent from someone in HR to myself and a couple other executive assistants/admin support people. The email was the standard “thanks for all you do” / “we appreciate you”. They also gave us a heads up that an instacart order would be coming to our office around 11am with a little gift.
Well, the gift showed up and guess what it was. Costco rotisserie chickens. One for each of us. (Plus a bag of chocolates for each of us). Now, I love a Costco chicken as much as the next person but this was an absolutely absurd gift. Especially because one of the EAs is a VEGETARIAN and the other one hates rotisserie chicken. So clearly no thought went into this “appreciation” gift.
Worse still is come to find out, this same gift (chicken plus chocolate – the perfect pairing!) was delivered to every HR person at our company, plus some other EAs/admin support employees who this person considers to be “honorary HR team members”. Uh thanks but no thanks I’d like no part in HR if it means random unwanted chick rotiss lol!
Per the sender of the chicken, they picked this because they “just think it’s funny!” And “it’s the universal language of protein”.
I’m going to take a wild guess and say that 99% of the people who received this gift would rather have received no gift at all. Or just the chocolates.
Happy employee appreciation week! #corporateamerica