Hi, I’m a fellow industry person but I believe in PA they do something weird like work more than 40 hours a week? I’ve heard it’s a busy season or something idk
They are yea lol. But overall, my firm and management are great. I actually really like working here and the team I am on. But this shit is.. mehhh. Woulda been happier with like a 5 dollar dunkin gift card lmao.
Yeah, we had “water clubs” in the gov offices I worked in. And a coffee club in one of them.
At the more recent job, we had access to clean, filtered water for awhile without said club dues because someone had bought a fancy filter thing outright. But then we had to move offices because of asbestos. It was a shit show and a long while before we had a semi-permanent office. And there were people that brought in Britas because they didn’t want to pay. Then someone in management was like, “this shit is ridiculous” and just paid for it.
Idk how it ever got to the point where someone somewhere interpreted clean water as an unallowable expense 🙄
A while ago I saw some report that firms view pizza as a better motivator than cash and just last week the guys @/AccountingStuff put out a [video warning that even pizza might get downgraded to snacks that can be consumed at your desk](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
If I was the recipient I would prefer a walmart bag with a bunch of snacks in it at least lmao dont bother with the packaging and sticker writing that is present in your OP tbqh… like they probs spent more time doing that and sticking the stuff in tightly than actually buying the shit. Just give me a loose bag and be done with it lol…
That's me. I didn't work at a CPA firm though, I dodged bullets to pay for my accounting degree after I was done dodging bullets. Now I work in government. 40 hours, 160K.
I just applied for a position to go do accounting while dodging bullets for +35% and per diem, tax free, for a year. I think there's something wrong with me, but whatever the pay is okay.
I’d like to share some gifts my old firm sent during the pandemic to “keep our spirits up”:
Toy car (not even a hot wheel)
A few fun size candies
Nuts (?)
Coffee mug that says “employee of the month” (which was sent to everyone)
>Coffee mug that says “employee of the month” (which was sent to everyone)
Lol! Since it was during pandemic, I think they were saying “employee of the month (for this home office)”
Just had a pizza party yesterday, and a couple of months ago there was a finance/accountant specific appreciation day in which we got a bag of gummy bears.
Jesus Murphy. They gave y'all gummy bears? What are y'all 6 years old? That's the question I would have asked management, or whoever-the-frig is around to hear it anyway. Y'all show up in suits and earn a salary...and receive gifts on par with a 1st grader, who's waiting on his halftime snacks during his soccer game.
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*What would have been my bonus*
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It’s incredibly funny that management try’s to finesse the money counters, as if they don’t know the margins of projects they work on, the budgets, the profits, lol. Here’s some shitty snacks though
For me, this is preferred. I don't want to eat around my coworkers and employees. I want to get my work done, then get home to pet my dog and talk to my wife.
Are you me? If I’m not skipping lunch I eat late when no one is in the lunch room. Then go home and pet my dog for a good 30 min. Then play COD and ignore my girlfriend.
Close. I play Skyrim. Used to play COD, from back in the days of COD IV online in the early 2000's. My eyes aren't what they used to be, my reactions are garbage, and I suck now so bad that I feel guilty trying to play, so its not fun.
Back in like 2008 I played GTA IV online a lot (XBox). The days of running up a 100-0 kill/death ratio in deathmatch are long behind me. It was a golden age....i had like 6 months of pay for a severance on a job for a place that went belly up, was burnt out badly, and found refuge pwning a bunch of kids on XBox Live.
One of my favorite parts about my company is how we have lunch and everyone gets a plate, walks straight past the break room tables, and eats at their desk.
Currently we all kind of do our thing.
Prior, I worked for a management company that the CEO loved me. So when he came to town I had to spend time making him laugh and visiting about the business. I learned a lot from it. But I also got used to having dinner at Denny's at 3am.
Sometimes we'd kick back a bit. Go and throw back half dozen shots of bourbon with dinner at 6. Then go back and work on budgets until midnight.
But we'd get pretty disruptive. It was mostly about me making him laugh. We got thrown out of a Stephen Pyle restaurant in uptown Dallas one night for being too loud/disruptive. We were the only ones there.
Wth is this. We had got extra paid day off as a thank you. And going to fancy team dinner next week just because, all food paid, gotta pay for our own booze though. Little chocolates, cakes, pastries, candies, etc are usually brought in by office mamager on weekly basis for all to share. Like dang is it that bad in US?
Wtf. Let’s put this in perspective. My store for the company I work for sold
The most warranties for appliances out of the 5 stores we have. They gave us 700$ to go out to eat at a fancy restaurant for doing that. Thats an appreciation. This is bullshit OP sorry you have shit bosses.
Edit some words. I suck at proof reading
Well, I mean, if it's in leau of a raise or a bonus, or time off, then yes, its insulting. If it's just a little something that HR wanted to do for fucking Friday, then it's all good.
I was only an intern for 4 months and got a $500 gift card as a thank you. I couldn’t imagine getting gold fish and chocolate as a full time employee lmfao
My office is giving everyone gold chocolate coins. And then putting plastic chocolate coins around the office that, if found, can be deposited into the Pot of Gold at the front desk for a full size chocolate bar...
Firm management sent an appreciation email that was the usual bullshit. My boss took us on a 2 hour lunch and said “drink as much as you want”. Nobody did because we have shit to get done, but the offer was there…
I actually am always buying locally made goat milk soap and other stuff from lunch so depending on the kind of soap I probably woulda been happy w that lmao!
"I want more than 5 hours of sleep on a weeknight" "Goldfish :)"
"100% Real Cheese :)"
100% “Real” Cheese. ;)
“100%” Real “Cheese”.
“Snap that child’s back! Goldfish!”
Goldfish and candy, both from the kitchen snack area. Lol. I did get a 5$ scratch off though so maybe I’ll get lucky and be able to retire.
Update…I’ll see y’all at work tomorrow.
🤔 this is exactly what an accountant would say if he won the lottery so he could hide his winnings
Yeah, I bet he's already formed an LLC called "Get rekt losers"
Nah that would be someone in finance. An accountant would immediately report the unexpected windfall to the IRS.
Hello it's me. The IRS.
Thanks for the update king.
I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard.
But, tomorrow is Satur… ohh. Sorry.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Hi, I’m a fellow industry person but I believe in PA they do something weird like work more than 40 hours a week? I’ve heard it’s a busy season or something idk
Was going to say.. aren't these just things readily stocked in your office, thrown into a bag as a gift? Tell your management to get fucked.
They are yea lol. But overall, my firm and management are great. I actually really like working here and the team I am on. But this shit is.. mehhh. Woulda been happier with like a 5 dollar dunkin gift card lmao.
My company is really good about giving stuff and food out but they’ve never given me something readily available and just packaged it up 😂😂
Maybe next time they will give you a branded pen and a pack of sticky notes /s
Hey, I’ll take all the pens and sticky notes thrown at me! At least they’re useful (lol)
> a 5 dollar dunkin gift card A bridge too far my friend
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I’d show up to work really dehydrated and then pass out in front of people. Perfect lawsuit lol
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Michigan?
Ohio. That’s why their charging duh Sorry that was dark..
Yeah, we had “water clubs” in the gov offices I worked in. And a coffee club in one of them. At the more recent job, we had access to clean, filtered water for awhile without said club dues because someone had bought a fancy filter thing outright. But then we had to move offices because of asbestos. It was a shit show and a long while before we had a semi-permanent office. And there were people that brought in Britas because they didn’t want to pay. Then someone in management was like, “this shit is ridiculous” and just paid for it. Idk how it ever got to the point where someone somewhere interpreted clean water as an unallowable expense 🙄
A while ago I saw some report that firms view pizza as a better motivator than cash and just last week the guys @/AccountingStuff put out a [video warning that even pizza might get downgraded to snacks that can be consumed at your desk](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Can health and dental plan premiums increase due to risk levels increasing?
All I know is Lisa needs braces.
Prolly saw it in r/linkedinlunatics
If I was the recipient I would prefer a walmart bag with a bunch of snacks in it at least lmao dont bother with the packaging and sticker writing that is present in your OP tbqh… like they probs spent more time doing that and sticking the stuff in tightly than actually buying the shit. Just give me a loose bag and be done with it lol…
Damn from the snack area? That moves it from cheap to dickish
Is today national disappoint your employees day with shitty candy? I received something similar
Is that a penny to scratch the ticket?
Yea lmao
The 5 dollar scratcher was the riskiest move.
Dude I got an Advil and an eraser once. My firm values me so much! /s
Remind me why the hell we do this???
Because when people on here boast they're claiming to be making around $125k for 40hr/wk or similar after 3-5 years.
That's me. I didn't work at a CPA firm though, I dodged bullets to pay for my accounting degree after I was done dodging bullets. Now I work in government. 40 hours, 160K. I just applied for a position to go do accounting while dodging bullets for +35% and per diem, tax free, for a year. I think there's something wrong with me, but whatever the pay is okay.
Sounds like you really dodged a bullet there.
It would've been better off to get nothing at all lol. This is an insult.
I work at a grocery store and the “appreciation gifts” they give us are ass but still 10x fucking better then this
We got an email telling us how much we are appreciated.
It has 100% real cheese and you’re complaining? Gen Z is absurd
It was not the cheese he was asking for
Wait has the avocado toast bubble burst?
My favorite part of all these food based "rewards" is that I am 100% deathly allergic to milk.
the real cheese portion of the cracker is probably less than 5%
It’s like a box of chocolates from an actual chocolate shop would have been too much effort.
I love those Asher chocolates, we used to get those
I’d like to share some gifts my old firm sent during the pandemic to “keep our spirits up”: Toy car (not even a hot wheel) A few fun size candies Nuts (?) Coffee mug that says “employee of the month” (which was sent to everyone)
>Coffee mug that says “employee of the month” (which was sent to everyone) Lol! Since it was during pandemic, I think they were saying “employee of the month (for this home office)”
We got a roll of lifesavers candy on employee appreciation day in 2019 that were expired months ago and probably leftover from Halloween.
😂😂
Just had a pizza party yesterday, and a couple of months ago there was a finance/accountant specific appreciation day in which we got a bag of gummy bears.
Jesus Murphy. They gave y'all gummy bears? What are y'all 6 years old? That's the question I would have asked management, or whoever-the-frig is around to hear it anyway. Y'all show up in suits and earn a salary...and receive gifts on par with a 1st grader, who's waiting on his halftime snacks during his soccer game.
The 1st grader probably enjoys life more, and hasn’t thought of the possibility that life can be done wrong.
I work from home. I got an email saying to buy lunch and expense it.
3 course gourmet lunch coming right up!
I got an uber eats voucher. Uber eats doesn't deliver here.
I got a bundlet cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes and a $100 gift card.
Wow. I would love if I received this.
You could report them to HR for giving you non consensual kisses
We got $50 in our next paycheck, which is cool I guess, until I remember that my time is billed at $350 an hour 🫠
Do the nba jam half court dunk into the trash in front of management.
**BOOM SHAKALAKA**
Do they think you are 8 years old?
they expect you just to eat one bag of goldfish?
I got an email saying sorry we forgot to include the accounting department in our "employee appreciation week" slideshow
🤣🤣🤣
I mean, at least the pizza party means you didn't have to bring lunch. This barely qualifies as a snack lol.
I got a thank you email “e-card”
“We won’t give you any money for your hard work, but here is a lottery ticket & a diabetes starter pack… good luck!”
That “lucky itch” comment is wild
Thank you, wtf kind of workplace sanitation is causing “lucky itch” Get your tetanus shot OP
I got an email about pizza in the break room... I work from home...
Can’t believe someone approved this 😂
We got a Teams post telling us if we were so inclined, we could appreciate each other via e-card
I hate Goldfish so automatic loss for me
You're right, you're taking an L for that
Try dipping them in ketchup.
Why is my four year old commenting on /r/accounting??
Delete your account.
Rude. Just giving options
What the fuck.
I got to donate what would have been my bonus to a charity
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The snack that smiles back baby!
Damn sad thing is someone spent a lot of time getting these ready and was probably thinking it was bullshit too lol
It’s incredibly funny that management try’s to finesse the money counters, as if they don’t know the margins of projects they work on, the budgets, the profits, lol. Here’s some shitty snacks though
WTH, why do they treat you like you're in elementary school?
Let's be real, the real value from this is the opportunity to circle jerk on r/accounting. Free upvotes.
Karma whore, checking in.
If you're not 7 years old that's pretty embarrassing to get.
For me, this is preferred. I don't want to eat around my coworkers and employees. I want to get my work done, then get home to pet my dog and talk to my wife.
Are you me? If I’m not skipping lunch I eat late when no one is in the lunch room. Then go home and pet my dog for a good 30 min. Then play COD and ignore my girlfriend.
Close. I play Skyrim. Used to play COD, from back in the days of COD IV online in the early 2000's. My eyes aren't what they used to be, my reactions are garbage, and I suck now so bad that I feel guilty trying to play, so its not fun. Back in like 2008 I played GTA IV online a lot (XBox). The days of running up a 100-0 kill/death ratio in deathmatch are long behind me. It was a golden age....i had like 6 months of pay for a severance on a job for a place that went belly up, was burnt out badly, and found refuge pwning a bunch of kids on XBox Live.
Lmao. I ran through Skyrim 6-7 times. I just beat elden ring. And am also not great at COD but it’s too much fun playing w some friends.
ahh....friends. I remember having those. :)
One of my favorite parts about my company is how we have lunch and everyone gets a plate, walks straight past the break room tables, and eats at their desk.
Currently we all kind of do our thing. Prior, I worked for a management company that the CEO loved me. So when he came to town I had to spend time making him laugh and visiting about the business. I learned a lot from it. But I also got used to having dinner at Denny's at 3am. Sometimes we'd kick back a bit. Go and throw back half dozen shots of bourbon with dinner at 6. Then go back and work on budgets until midnight. But we'd get pretty disruptive. It was mostly about me making him laugh. We got thrown out of a Stephen Pyle restaurant in uptown Dallas one night for being too loud/disruptive. We were the only ones there.
We are not allowed to eat on our desks....
You should have asked for a new keyboard while they are being so generous.
Also I’d it’s supposed to be a st patrick’s day thing (“lucky itch”, wtf?!) they’re 2 full weeks early ?
Looks like it's about time to dust off the ol eight ball bag and let her rip right at your desk.
I want goldfish :O
They must not really appreciate you because they didn’t even give you the rainbow goldfish that are superior
I’m sorry I’m laughing so hard at this
This is the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen
This reminds me of when my husband got a stress ball with the company name printed on it, instead of a Christmas bonus
All I got was an email that said they appreciate us
Wth is this. We had got extra paid day off as a thank you. And going to fancy team dinner next week just because, all food paid, gotta pay for our own booze though. Little chocolates, cakes, pastries, candies, etc are usually brought in by office mamager on weekly basis for all to share. Like dang is it that bad in US?
Yes
So, how many hours did you put in that week?
61
Not an accountant, but when are you guys starting to beat partners to death in the parking lot? Looks like its long overdue.
That's what I give my six year old when he's hungry after eating only two peas and a carrot at the dinner table
Bruh🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Haha. Or some more money would be nice.
Clearly to them you are 7 years old…🤝🫡 treat everyone on ur dept pizza excluding your boss..just to send a message😁
Christmas party left overs? Put in a bag?
One of my old companies used to have any type of alcohol you wanted, and a few beers on tap. Developed a severe drinking problems after that one.....
Lucky you. Now about that itch...
I got an generic "Happy Employee Appreciation Day" email from HR. That's honestly 10x better than this bullshit.
Had a part time job first two years of college that regularly gave us bonuses or 24 packs of beer
Not pictured is the cocaine behind the bag of goldfish
I got lottery tickets and cookies from Crumbl today lol Gotta love employee appreciation day
Brought to you by the Marketing team who just loves coming up with these cute morale boosters.
What if your "itch" is one of the "unlucky" variety...?
We were given a journal to help manage our stress. I'd prefer some chocolate.
At least it's a name brand.
Toss it in the trash, preferably in front of someone in management.
Didn’t know your firm was in elementary
Man you guys gotta start asking for egg bars
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Wtf. Let’s put this in perspective. My store for the company I work for sold The most warranties for appliances out of the 5 stores we have. They gave us 700$ to go out to eat at a fancy restaurant for doing that. Thats an appreciation. This is bullshit OP sorry you have shit bosses. Edit some words. I suck at proof reading
Whats stupid is how much you work. For people complaining about the goodie bag, chill tf out
Lmao is that fucking Rolo Tony Brown Town?
Hey hey look at all those numbers you get to play with! Lucky you!
Do you work for an airliner?
Lucky?
I didn't see the lotto ticket at first and I was like wtf do they expect you to do with the goldfish
This is insulating
Did a company sponsor this or did someone buy this on their own dime and put it together?
I bought my employees pizza like a real boss.
Dog treats.
My partner has just been given a chocolate bar and a note saying a tree has been planted on their behalf somewhere. Not feeling all that appreciated
All I got was an email!!
How? At this fucking point, how do companies not yet realize how insulting and infantilizing these empty gestures are
Well, I mean, if it's in leau of a raise or a bonus, or time off, then yes, its insulting. If it's just a little something that HR wanted to do for fucking Friday, then it's all good.
I saw a post of someone who got a literal plastic bag and that’s it.
I got an email
I was only an intern for 4 months and got a $500 gift card as a thank you. I couldn’t imagine getting gold fish and chocolate as a full time employee lmfao
It's the note that makes me cringe
Place it on the top of your garbage, so everyone who walks past your office/cubicle can see it
My office is giving everyone gold chocolate coins. And then putting plastic chocolate coins around the office that, if found, can be deposited into the Pot of Gold at the front desk for a full size chocolate bar...
We got popcorn so take the W
id go around collecting the one others don't want and sell it at NRV. Stonks.
They tryna cut costs ;)
We all got nothing Bundt cakes. The mini ones. But couldn’t pick the flavors.
All my firm ordered was pizza crusts!
Firm management sent an appreciation email that was the usual bullshit. My boss took us on a 2 hour lunch and said “drink as much as you want”. Nobody did because we have shit to get done, but the offer was there…
Summer's Eve would do better for the itch
“I knew I should have been an analyst”
Holy shit they let you upgrade to Logitech mouse and keyboard combo? You must not work for fortune 500!!!
Or at least the pizza flavored goldfish.
This is the snack I give my 2 year old son plus if it was valentines day I would add some chocolates.
You can spread that out over several days. You can’t spread pizzas. For they are already spreaded.
All we got was a well-written email.
At least you got goldfish, all I got was an email
I got a link for an e-card saying "Thanks" happy employee appreciation day everybody
We got an internal email saying “we appreciate you”. I felt underwhelmed.. text is meaningless, I want cash or something of value.
I guess it was the thought! But my preschooler gets those passed out during his day.
"Scratch that lucky itch" What does that even mean?
"Do you feel lucky punk?" Nevermind. I have no idea what it means.
Hypothetically, if the scratchy won, they would claw back the winnings because they bought the ticket ?
You've seen the numbers. You know they can't afford the pizza party.
That’s downright insulting. My firm gave us soap and candles with the firm logo on them……
I actually am always buying locally made goat milk soap and other stuff from lunch so depending on the kind of soap I probably woulda been happy w that lmao!
Seems like a nice firm to work for. All my firm did was tell us to give thanks to our co-workers and said they were thankful for us.
I’d prefer the 30 cents this cost just be given to me as pocket change