Sometimes on Reddit, I might see a commenter complain about worthless office pizza parties that don't do anything for work morale. People just want better pay and reasonable workload.
For 2 months, I have been dating the head of HR at a medium sized company. The company has a mix of white collar and manual labor workers. The guy sometimes brings up how well the company treats its employees. Examples include snacks, water, extra rest breaks (umm good for you?).
Over dinner, he bragged about organizing a huge holiday party complete with buses to an extravagantly decorated resort event space. There will be prizes, such as iPads. I commented that they should just pay their employees better. I told him people would prefer to have more money that they could spend as they wish. He replied raising pay would cost too much, and anyway, they have great retention. It turns out that the company admin wants to have their cake and eat it too: Pay just above minimum wage but still convince themselves that they treat their employees exceptionally well. At least it felt good to call out an administrator for their worthless parties that don't compensate for better wages. Without risking my own job lol.