A recent company-wide email was sent out stating that we’d have an “appreciation dinner” as a small gesture to show thanks for all our recent hard work.
For some context, we’ve recently had 5 employees move on to greener pastures, of an already small-ish group. There are roughly ~25 of us working in this firm and have had to pick up extra work in some areas. On top of already being slammed with work while they were still working here.
I can only now assume that this “appreciation dinner” will be the only sort of compensation or acknowledgment of our efforts. Thing is, I don’t give a flying fuck about it. This whole concept of corporate gratitude is so jacked, and gives off such a “we’re a family here” vibe. It also feels like it’s coming across that we should feel guilty if we don’t go. We’ll too bad, I’m not gonna go. It’s my free time after work, which I value so much so more than a mediocre dinner with people I barely enjoy spending time with.
They’ve sent out multiple dates to pick from so that we can ALL work something out. But I am just so tempted to say “hell nah, I’d rather just have a bonus”