'[It's] a slap in the face': Employee catches a multi-million-dollar mistake, company rewards her a $30 gift card as a thanks

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Isabella Penn
Jan 20, 2024 8:00 PM EST

We've all heard about the underwhelming gifts companies sometimes give their employees—whether it's a questionable free breakfast, an after-hours company party where you're expected to contribute a dish, or a mediocre pen. Those in corporate America have pretty much seen it all. However, one woman discovered a significant mistake in the company's finances that could have cost them millions of dollars. Going above and beyond, she thoroughly investigated the numbers and was proven right. Despite her efforts, all she received was a meager $30 gift card and a public recognition from her boss. Many in the comment section suggested that they shouldn't have bothered with the gift card, as it felt like more of a slap in the face.

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    A You identified a mistake that could have cost us tens of millions? Thanks here's a gift card. Posted by u/Inebriatedreaction 2 days ago
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    Wife works for an insurance carrier as an auditor and a few weeks ago realized someone had made a mistake and the company was in the process of printing and mailing duplicate checks.
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    The last time this happened it cost several millions of dollars when customers cashed those checks. She alerted the appropriate teams and her manager and the scope of this error before it was resolved
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    could have potentially costed the company tens of millions of dollars. Her manager is a solid dude and is always about recognizing his crew and apparently did a
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    formal recognition which had to be approved by HR. Her appropriate award per HR was a $30 gift card, which counts as taxable income.
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    LL corporate America. EDIT1: I am not going to give out her actual position as I would like for this to stay as anonymous as possible. Suffice to say she is in finance, was
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    performing her duties within her scope and she happened to notice a pattern. She then went beyond her scope by taking additional time out of her normal duties to connect the dots on several items,
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    documenting several errors and contacting the appropriate teams so that this could be resolved in a timely manner. I also don't understand why people are arguing that if
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    someone completed work within the scope of their duties, they do not deserve a bonus or raise. A $30 gift card is a slap in the face when someone goes above and beyond their
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    position. Especially when the CEO makes over 300 times her salary and the company spends millions of dollars on stock buybacks.
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    ehzstreet 2 days ago · The company I used to work for had a policy where you got a bonus of 10% of the value of the amount of money you prevented the company from losing... I reported to my manager a potential loss of $5000. I thought I had a payday coming. Turns out my manager snaked it from me. I quit shortly thereafter.
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    fenriq 2 days ago And the next time she sees it happening, tell her to think about that sweet $30 gift card she'll get by saving them again. Or maybe just don't report it next time and let them eat the losses. Yeah, that second one!
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    johnnydlive 2 days ago Saving a company millions of dollars is something that should be rewarded with a promotion and a raise. It would have been better to have just given her a pat on the back rather than a $30 gift card, which is tacky and unprofessional.
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    yeahbatman 2 days ago My husband builds a certain kind of instrument for a living. Products kept coming up out of spec and sent back from QC. He was the only one who was able to identify the issue and fix it. The only one in the whole building of a couple hundred employees. He was given a gift for saving the company thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was t-shirt that said "(Boss's Name)'s Hero" that he never wore.
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