A personalized plastic drinking bottle composed of a generic plastic bottle and my very own name on a separate label that I had to apply myself.

My boss installed a sound-proof “relaxing room” with a massage chair in it, saying any time you feel stressed or need time to think, you can go in there and wind down a bit.
The door to the room was right next to his office.
I tried to go in that room once.
My boss intercepted me at the door and gave me more work.

At another job, as a christmas bonus, I got a lighter with the company logo on it.
It broke after 3 days. The company lasted slightly longer.

A 45c/h pay increase. I was already on $22/h so going to $22.45/h felt like nothing as once you expand it out you are only getting an extra ~$800 a year before tax.

Probably food instead of a raise

A fucking turkey.

Company takes over previously non profit happy and its associated home health company.

Employees had previously gotten cash bonuses end of year, even us plebes at the bottom of the chain of command. The year before I had gotten right under 300 bucks. Not a huge thing, but respectable.

That money was direct deposited with no issues, and came with an invitation to a party thrown for employees.

The turkey? You had to drive to the services building, which was on the other side of the county (where they handled bookkeeping and such) to pick up the damn turkey, had only a two hour window during working hours to do so, and they didn’t even have enough for everyone if everyone had shown up. They ran out, and it wasn’t everyone that did show up, because that window of time excluded everyone doing patient care at the hospital, all of the home health workers at a case, and many of the support staff like maintenance that didn’t get breaks at that time.

Yup, it was that bad, and intentional. “We didn’t think there would be that many people showing up” was the response given.

Like, fuck you. Fuck you and whoever decided to insult all of us this way.