Patronizing Company Gets Roasted for Giving Employees Employees "Work Bux" for Canteen Food Instead of Raises

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jul 24, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Earning a living is meant to be one of the most important markers that you're a semi-responsible adult. It's kind of ironic, then, that many employers try to treat the people that work for them like they're children. The boss and employee relationship is a strained one at the best of times. Perhaps that's why some higher ups are attracted to behaving like their workers are preschoolers.

It would go some way to explaining the unbelievable 'reward' that one Redditor was on the receiving end of at their job. They were so outraged by this gesture that they felt the need to take it to the wider internet. They revealed that the way their company recognized hard work was to give employees "work bux", a fake currency that could be exchanged for canteen items like granola bars or dried ramen.

This cringey attempt at compensation had Redditors up in arms, and with good reason. As if not getting a raise wasn't bad enough, the Bitmojis are enough to send anyone over the edge.

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    Computer keyboard - V 1 r/mildlyinfuriating u/familiar-face123 3d i.redd.it B 1 Instead of raises we get "Work bux" to use on a "store" for Ramen and granola bars. CONGRATULATIONS YOU DID THE THING OKURRIR Join ONE DOLLAR LM Ctrl ONE DOLLAR LM At least other people get pizza. We get Ramen and granola bars.
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    Font - not_falling down +3 • 3d These look like something that a teacher would hand out to First Graders : Reply 7.9k aurian82 3d My sixth grader is currently doing a class project (creating a mini economy) and this looks pretty much like what they're using!
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    Product - Ferro_Giconi +3.3d X 34 Awards I would photocopy those and make hundreds of them to destroy the fake money economy. Reply : 5.1k Racist_1 • 3d They laminated that shit, they one step ahead
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    Font - ishi5656 3d Can't believe companies still try scrip in 2023
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    Font - mike4889 3d 1 Award Start selling 2 packs of Ramen for 1 "work bux" slowly but surly making your way to the tippity top of the "bux" mountain. Slowly add other items to your inventory with the sole purpose of getting your bosses strung out on pixie sticks. Once they are feening, that's when you bring up the raise.
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    Font - komeau 3d 1 Award They have those at Amazon warehouses, they are called Swag Bucks and you use them to buy t shirts and crap that have the Amazon logo emblazoned on them so you can further advertise their brand. When I worked there I never even bothered looking up how many Swag Bucks I accrued, let alone cashing them in, because I found it insulting. A t shirt is not motivation to work harder, actual money is.
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    Font - Potential-One-3107 3d That's awful. Mine just treats us like little kids. We occasionally get a plastic coin that says "I got caught being good". We can then use it to pick a prize from the prize box. It's demeaning. ⠀ Reply 52 bullhorn_bigass 3d When I was an instructional assistant in a Kindergarten, one of the moms excitedly brought in a bunch of the "Caught Being Good" coins and little prizes, and the teacher shot that shit down immediately. She told the mom (in so many words) that th
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    Font - 21 FrontierPro4x 3d Hahah sorry... but couldn't hold in my laughter. Who knows, maybe one day the "okurrr" buck will be valuable when Cardi B dies. redit
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    Font - verucka-salt +2.3d I'm diabetic & would demand fruit & veg bux Reply : Supertom911 +1 3d Not insulin bux? I'd go for insulin bux! ⠀ Otacosam0 3d It'd be a 1,000 bux for one dose of insulin and they would give you less on purpose 82 46
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    Font - bullhorn_bigass 3d My child works at a car wash, and the car wash stocks Gatorade, granola bars, ramen, and goldfish that the employees are welcome to eat during their shift, free of charge. My child says that no one abuses it because no one wants it to go away. The manager goes to Costco every other week and gets new stuff. I can't imagine how insulting these bullshit Work Bux must feel. Unbelievable.
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    Font - 420nugu +2.3d have a friend who works at home depot and they get tickets or whatever to exchange for candy and i remember him being so excited telling us one time. he was like "its good candy! full bars and everything" and i was like??? does it not feel demeaning to you? youre a grown man, if they gave you bonuses or something instead you can buy as much candy as you want yourself meanwhile i just started a new job and i get actual monetary rewards for referrals and that's something that
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