Cheap Boss Takes All Employee's Bonuses Away Because of $5 Missing From Cash Register

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 4, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

Some bosses are just plain cheap! They will dangle a carrot in front of their employees, and time after time, they will rip it away for virtually no reason. They might think that enticing their employees with a benefit they're never going to receive is an effective strategy for motivating hard work, but that's the opposite of the truth. People get tired of being promised more and getting shortchanged again and again. 

Usually, when employees don't get a bonus on their salary, it's because of something they fail to accomplish. For instance, they don't reach their goals for that quarter, and therefore, they don't get the bonus. That is an understandable way of conducting business and a good way to motivate employees. However, if employees are told they'll be given a bonus and this bonus gets taken away from them for a bogus reason, that's a pretty bad way to boost morale. This is exactly what happened to a Redditor and worker who has only been at their new job for two weeks. 

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    Font - r/antiwork u/kktyp 3d. i.redd.it So I and a few others on the schedule are being punished for something we weren't even on site for. Is this wage theft?
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    Font - < February numbers Inbox A $5.00 off register for yesterday. I think its time to take all bonuses off the table until this store can learn to balance registers. 5280 February 2023 Goal.xlsx X Spreadsheet K Posted in r/antiwork by u/kktyp : ●●● ●●● reddit
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    Facial expression - Child Of1970 • 3d For now working to live, never living to work Unless the bonuses are contractual and this is not part of how the bonus is earned, unfortunately perfectly legal. Reply 500
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    Font - Smyley12345. 3d The corollary to this is "bonuses can be taken away freely and without penalty, be cautious about accepting any promises about bonuses in your compensation negotiations". 219
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    Font - Interesting_Aerie_32. 3d It's not the $5.00 discrepancy. That's just an excuse to avoid paying a bonus your employer was never going to pay to begin with. They bosses just want you all to blame each other and not them. Remember this next time they promise you a bonus for meeting some goal. Reply 2.2k ...
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    Font - Sage_Planter • 3d They bosses just want you all to blame each other and not them. I had a boss who used to send emails like this. One time, it was absolutely her fault the cash register was short, and we were able to prove it. Needless to say, no apology or "my bad" follow up. 4559
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    Font - Ashvayn • 3d Next time? NEXT TIME? This should be the wake up call to avoid a next time and gtfo of this work place. 139
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    Font - nik-nak333 • 3d They bosses just want you all to blame each other and not them. The sad thing is there are probably a few individuals who will not hesitate to lash out at coworkers over this instead of acknowledging their pocket is being picked by management. 151
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    Font - C. GoblinBags 3d ● Exactly. Miscounting $5 is as easy as missing a SINGLE bill and when your end of day count means thumbing through potentially hundreds and hundreds of bills - it's easy to do. Shit happens. Even basic money counting machines can potentially do that if it's some crisp new bills. ... 96
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    Font - vito1221 2d ● In another life I worked retail. Older manager told me...if a cashier always had a balanced till at the end of his / her shift...that was a better indicator of an issue, (theft), than a little short / over. 461 ...
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    Rectangle - FitArtist5472 • 3d "I either can't or won't pay bonuses, so I found an excuse to cancel them." ... Reply 4.9k 4.9k
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    Rectangle - Henryspencer420 • 3d Confirm this theory by having a talk with them explaining how it's unfair you're being punished for something that happened when you weren't there 41.4K
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    Font - MGaber • 3d Off topic, kinda, but my first job was at Target. I had training in more than half the store. Sales floor, cashier, electronics, clothing, backroom, you name it. Only two things I couldn't do was guest service or the food area Anyway, I was their go-to guy for covering lunch breaks, or whenever an unexpected task needed completed they'd call for me to come help
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    Font - Well, one night I was called up to have a meeting with two managers. They said I wasn't completing my tasks and asked why. My response was pretty much, "you have my cover everyone's lunch breaks so I'm constantly all over the store. How am I supposed to finish my work when I have to do everyone else's work too?" They said something like "we talk to each other so we make sure we aren't giving you too much work" If I wasn't in my assigned area for half the night the how am I supposed to do
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    Font - ChogbortsTopStudent • 3d I worked in the same retail store for 8 years. 7 years in, after being hired as the assistant manager and being the ONLY employee who changed locations with them, my district manager showed up one day when I was closing by myself to scold me about how my sales have been down since we moved locations. I pointed out that I was still the top seller at that location, but that apparently didn't matter and still makes it my fault that the new location sucked and sales w
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    Font - MGaber • 3d I always loved that. It's the employees fault that sales are down. Sure, there are tricks and gimmicks you can use to try to convince a mother to buy accessories for little Timmy's new Xbox, but if someone doesn't want to buy an item, such as bandaids, there is little I can do to convince them to buy the item. The success of a store such as Target is mostly up to the general public. On top of that, I don't get paid enough to give a fuck about the success of corporate
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    Font - If/when I have a kid, I'm gonna teach them not to take shit from employers. Aside from telling stories about my first job, no one cares about my experience from there. What people care about is recent experience and what education/ training/certifications I have 4247 247
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    Font - LeftyLu07 3d I have a friend who works at Walmart and she said the bigwigs are very unhappy that they raised prices on everything by at least 30% but their profit margin remained the same as last year. So they sent out a company wide memo blaming the associates for not pushing sales harder on customers. My friend said they are all really confused because... it's Walmart. The employees don't try to "make sales." They're there to stock shelves and ring up customers.
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    Organism - But of course it's the employees' fault. Not Walmart being idiotic for assuming they could raise prices so much and customers will keep their old spending habits despite the inflation. 263
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    Font - Mauve Unicorn • 3d Taking away a bonus is not wage theft. It's shitty, but wage theft is illegal. This isn't. Reply 1.5k ...
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    Rectangle - kktyp OP. 3d Ugh that's whack. Still putting résumés out. Thanks. ... 640
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    Font - Neither-Parfait7795 • 3d Yeah, it seems like a place you should leave asap ... 4341
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    Rectangle - kktyp OP. 3d Absolutely. I was out sick yesterday with a stomach bug. I didn't do anything to get my bonus taken away. 229
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    Font - bluegrassnuglvr. 3d Haha. Over $5. Find a new job, OP Reply 6
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    Rectangle - kktyp OP. 3d Just quit & CC'd everyone. ... 46
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