‘That’s not how bonuses work': Employees refuse to accept bonus after boss announces they would have to put in extra hours to get it

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Apr 15, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

A quick message to any employer who might be reading this–if you want to make your employees feel appreciated, rewarding them by making them work more is never the right answer. Never. Don't even try to think about it.

Instead, try and reward them with the only thing that is actually considered a reward for any working adult… money (shocking, I know). Simply give them a nice bonus or holiday treat or whatever you want to call it, because trust me when I say that the only way your hardworking employees would feel appreciated and motivated is by giving them something that would legitimately help them.

If there is one employer who needs to read this message, it is the boss of the employee who wrote this Reddit post. OP's (original poster) boss announced that OP's entire team will be getting a $300 bonus for all their hard work… But only if they work 12 hours a day and be on-call 24/7. So yeah, that is not what we call a bonus here, bossman.

Scroll down to read the full story. When you are done, click here for a story of an employee being 'quietly fired' for standing up to upper management.

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