Employee quits after making boss $1.5 million and getting a paltry holiday 'bonus' as thanks: 'For Christmas he got me a $25 AMC gift card'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 14, 2024 8:00 AM EST

'Tis the season to receive an underwhelming Christmas bonus from your out-of-touch employer! Sometimes, it's a basket of stale cookies. Sometimes, it's a water bottle with the company logo on it that you can't even put in the dishwasher. And sometimes, it's a $25 gift card to the AMC movie theater near you, which for this employee, was a full 1.5 hours away and in an entirely other state.

First of all, anyone who knows anything about the state of moviegoing today would implicitly understand that a $25 gift certificate would be the cost of one movie and maybe a small popcorn if you're especially lucky. Anyone who knows anything about AMC will understand that if you're going to get someone a $25 gift certificate, you might as well gift them the first month of an AMC stubs membership, which costs the same amount but allows subscribers to attend multiple movies a week if they wish. The point is that this employer got it all wrong in so many ways.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, take a look at this story about a micromanager who retroactively rejected an employee's PTO request.

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    I made my boss over $1.5 million in commission over two years, while I made $45k/year. For Christmas he got me a $25 gift card to a movie
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    theater chain that I would have to drive to another state to even use. When I put in my two week notice, he called legal on me while I sat in his office.
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    I worked my a off for this man, essentially running his entire book of business for him. For Christmas he got me a $25 AMC gift card. The closest AMC theater is 1.5hrs away in another
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    state. That p ed me off and made me start looking for other jobs. I genuinely cared about my job and the account, so I waited to accept a job offer until I had trained someone else to do my job. When the time came, I met
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    him in his office and told him that I had accepted another job and that I was putting in my notice, but to not worry because I have someone already trained. When I told him that I had accepted a position with another company in our field but would not be doing
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    the same thing so it wouldn't violate my non-compete, he called our chief legal office on speaker phone while I sat there.
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    The CLO tells me that "I cannot even mop floors at a company in our field for at least a year". The CLO adds HR to the call and HR
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    tells me that since I won't be pursuing my new job, they are going to let me work 2 more weeks to make sure the handoff goes smoothly and then I will be fired for looking for other jobs.
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    They asked me for more details as to what I would be doing at my new job, and I told them I wasn't going to discuss it. After I left,
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    the CLO of this company (a company who brings in $6 BILLION/year in revenue) called me randomly for the next few weeks trying to intimidate me.
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    They even started contacting my new employer. Luckily, I don't work for a s company now and the CEO got involved and told them that they would be ready to fight this in court. They stopped contacting me after that,
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    which meant they never even planed in taking me to court. They just wanted to scare me into quitting my new job.
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    F companies like this. We don't have to put up with this sh anymore
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    Edit: this was 3 years ago. I'm with the same company that I left my previous job for, and they have given me the budget to start a division of the company that directly competes with my previous employer I still have that AMC gift card too.
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    I'll go ahead and address some of the questions I keep getting asked: Why did you stay if you were so underpaid for your performance? Because I was fresh out of college and dumb.
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    Why did you tell them where you were going? Because I was fresh out of college and dumb.
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    Why did you even give them a two week notice, why didnt you walk out? Because the people who I actually cared about at that job would be the ones who felt the effects of that more than my manager.
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    TheinimitaableG I had a similar experience. I'd signed a non-compete as a1099 contractor then got hired in full time. A while later I should fit and hit a job with a client of theirs. They tried to pull out the non compete.
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    I pointed out that in California a non-compete agreement is not enforceable against a non- equity partner, and that my relationship with the soon to be former employer was that of an emoloyee. Like the OP my new employer's legal team got involved and told them to go pound sand.
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    L... Talk about a toxic relationship when their go to move is "YOU ARE NOT BREAKING UP WITH US WE ARE BREAKING UP WITH YOU AND WE'LL GO AFTER EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT".
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    I'm just sad the story doesn't actually involve them losing major accounts.
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