'Employees are working 60 to 80 hours a week': Company shocks their staff after record-breaking revenue spike, rewarding their hardworking employees with a pathetic potluck instead of bonuses

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 27, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Ahhhh, the fated "pizza party" trope. Nobody knows why, but CEO's and bosses seem to think that the silver bullet solution to any problem in the workplace is to load up their employees with carbs. Although it's true that everyone likes pizza and pizza parties can be sort of fun in the workplace, it's certainly not a end-all-be-all solution to widespread issues at work. 

Pizza won't solve the wage gap, pizza won't prevent people from quiet quitting, and pizza certainly does not replace a raise. 

However, companies continually have the audacity to throw a slice at the problems in the workplace. Could it be any worse? Absolutely. Scroll for this disrespectful display of 'congratulations' from a company that reached record-breaking revenue due to the hard work of their employees. We highly recommend that you bring your own sustenance for this pitiful potluck of misery. Next up on the reading list, here's a tale of more fist-clenching stories in the workplace where a woman sabotages her coworkers PTO after months of insolence. 

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    Font - r/antiwork. u/wolofancy Posted by 19 hours ago Company is seeing revenue "not seen in years", employees working 60 to 80 hours a week for months, and our big reward is...
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    Font - An appreciation potluck. Hosted at our work from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. We are "highly encouraged" to bring food or drink.
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    Font - ei_ei_oh 14 hr. ago want to bet executives there had a healthy bonus? companies don't care about staff
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    Smile - you wok your a off to generate higher profits and your reward is HR spending $0.00 because all of you are "highly encouraged" to bring food or drink
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    Organism - Ok_Blueberry2904. 14 hr. ago 100% agree. As a hiring supervisor at my company, I have to say that the kind of money they spend on stupid is ridiculous. Where they could turn
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    Mammal - around and spend this money on employees and have a much better outcome. No, let's have an embarrassing birthday party that nobody cares about, or like this.
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    Font - In turn, good people get punished by having to work more but not getting paid more since they're on salary, and bad people get good evaluations (=big bonus) and promotions
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    Font - Infinite Monitor_465 4 hr. ago And they wonder why every employee everywhere does basically bare minimum.
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    Font - Smithmonster 16 hr. ago Take a $5 dollar hour and ready, I hear pizza parties really cheer people up. 286 00 Reply Share JOJOCHINTO_REPORTING 12 hr. ago Pizza parties are for closers! Pot luck for you!
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    Rectangle - drfury31 14 hr. ago They can be written off. If you give the employees anything monetary, it is considered part of their compensation and is taxed.
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    Font - KoalaOriginal1260 - 10 hr. ago I think that the problem with pizza parties isn't that your employer is buying you lunch instead of giving you a bonus (but yes, that's a problem too), it's that a pizza lunch is literally the cheapest way you can conveniently feed a group of people.
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    Font - If the appreciation party was a feast from the cool taqueria down the road, it would feel like an effort was made and that people were valued more than a single slice of lukewarm pepperoni from Little Caesars.
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    Font - Daewoo40 4 hr. ago Does the IRS tax pizza parties? "You provided 45 pepperoni pizzas, the IRS demands a slice!"
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    Font - Macasumba 15 hr. ago Soooo lucky to rewarded by making your own food! 165 Reply Share mackfactor 12 hr. ago If your reward is making your own food and providing your own service, it's not a reward.
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    Font - eyeh8 15 hr. ago Same here. Our reward? WFH is being replaced by a hybrid work schedule that requires 3 days in the office. Now I get to add an over 2 hour round trip commute to do the job I've done fine for the last few years from home. 213 Reply Share ThePuzzleGuy77 · 14 hr. ago Good luck on your job search
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    Font - RVAVandal 14 hr. ago Sounds like your productivity is about to drop precipitously Tuesday through Thursday ↑ 109 Reply Share NorridAU 14 hr. ago They won't be faking day 3s production slump.
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    Rectangle - ifyoudontknowlearn. 14 hr. ago LOL as I was reading and got to the ... I figured oh I know this one - pizza party. Then you said potluck and I was like OMG that's so much worse - company doesn't pay anything. Cheap b
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    Font - SXLightning 15 hr. ago My was getting gifted a £30 gift card. Denied promotion and bonus. Reply Share ... 23 Mama_Zen 14 hr. ago Time to form a union
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    Font - satanic-frijoles 14 hr. ago . idle The higher-ups have no idea what this looks like, do they? ↑ 10 Reply Share eghhge 13 hr. ago Dress up as Kevin from the Office and dump that chili!
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    Font - justisme333 13 hr. ago Company I once worked for threw a massive BBQ / Pizza party (factory shut down for the afternoon) complete with a free Raffle for various gift vouchers.
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    Font - CEO gave huge speech about how fantastic and dedicated we all were and how much extra money we had made over the last 3 years and how much the company was growing thanks to our 'voluntary' overtime efforts.
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    Font - 2 months later (start of new financial year) we get notified that our productivity is the worst it's ever been and they are now introducing stringent KPI measures to encourage a good work ethic. Almost everyone quit that year except the few lifers who were close to retirement.
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    Smile - blackdvck 14 hr. ago Worked for a company like this, they never change, leave and never look back.
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