My company has been losing money. A lot. Thing is, we have a handful of offices in different cities, and the biggest office is doing all the losing. My office (I say office, but we're 2 in the office and 25ish doing physical work on location) has been making money, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses of the big office. Then we got sold. A big umbrella company bought us, and now they are splitting our office apart from the rest and fusing us with another local company under their umbrella that fits better. All in all good stuff, as out office gets separated from the losses.
But still there is a ton of focus on margins, meaning the difference between the money we spend and the money we make. Increase margins, increase margins. And to appeal to us, to reward us if we manage to increase the margins, the umbrella company is rewarding the company that has the highest margins each quarter with a really fancy popcorn machine.
A popcorn machine. That makes popcorn.
And it's not like we would benefit much if we managed to win the machine, cause our little branch doesn't work out of the main office building. We're there 4 times a year, at the quarterly meetings. So if we wanted some of this hard earned popcorn, we have to drive out with our personal cars, presumably on our own time if there aren't any meetings during the time we would have the machine
I like what the company is doing, and I hope to reap a few benefits from the umbrella company doing well, but this ain't it. This is a fucking joke.