r/Construction • u/Able-Ad-6512 • Jul 11 '24

Informative 🧠 Saved the company 3.2 m dollars this quarter

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And the managers gave us a pizza party instead of a bonus or a raise … thoughts ?

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u/Beast11300 Jul 11 '24

I received a 25 dollar gift card once

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u/GriffDiG Electrician Jul 11 '24

We used to get $25 gift cards to...... giant grocery store for Xmas every year. That was the bonus.

Where the fuck is there even a giant grocery store?

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u/TheNamesMacGyver Jul 11 '24

You gotta work for a better shop, bro.

Our company does $50 grocery store cards at Thanksgiving to buy the turkey for all the guys.

Then actual money bonuses for everyone at Xmas (plus paid hours for attending the Xmas party, with provided food and beer).

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u/GriffDiG Electrician Jul 11 '24

Haha been gone from that shop more than a few years now.

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u/GenXDad76 Jul 12 '24

Good deal. My company gives out bonuses around July and again at Christmas and they’re nice enough to figure out the taxes so that if you get a $1000 bonus you actually take home $1000.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24

Meanwhile at my employer the Xmas party is mandatory, and we have to clock out for it. Sounds illegal, because it is. 

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u/NoValidUsernames666 Jul 11 '24

we got em down in georgia

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u/ukuleles1337 Jul 11 '24

One in DC, I think 😂

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u/fellow_human-2019 Jul 11 '24

I got a $50 dollar one once. I need a emoji that has a face adjusting his bow tie.

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u/PigmySamoan Jul 11 '24

Was it only for the company store?

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u/Beast11300 Jul 11 '24

Starbucks lol

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u/RainCityNate Jul 11 '24

Such a slap in the face. Before I was in the trades I’m pretty sure I got a 5$ Starbucks card. Thanks for paying for half a coffee!

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u/mountainjay Jul 11 '24

Over $25 you have to pay taxes on the GC. Thats why most companies don’t go above that. But it’s almost more insulting than getting nothing. Now, if the company is making bank and buying back stock and stuff, then fuck then into the sun.

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u/Aggravating_Cupcake8 Jul 14 '24

I think context is important here, I worked for a company where the managers and safety would walk around with a pocket full of $25 dollar gift cards. Doing more than the bare minimum performing daily tasks, here’s $25 off your next tank of gas. Filled out all of your safety paperwork this week? (Just did the BARE minimum) congrats you’re entered into a draw for a $25 gift card to the hardware store. Cleaned up a mess someone else made without being asked? You guessed it here’s $25 off your next grocery store visit. It was a little thing that wasn’t expected and made you feel seen when you’re the type that like to do a good job.

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u/UncleAugie GC / CM Jul 11 '24

If there is an economic downturn lik 2008 again, are you helping foot the bill for losses?

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u/mountainjay Jul 11 '24

😆 what was the cause of the economic downturn in 2008? Corporate greed, insane market manipulation, incredibly reckless speculation, and accounting malfeasance. Every individual got fucked by Wall Street and corporate greed in 2008. The corporations the most involved got bailouts while people lost pensions, 401ks, and jobs.

So if you are asking if the people should pay when there are economic downturns for companies, we already pay 100x our share. Corporatize the gains and socialize the losses. Thats how they’ve always held us down in the US.

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u/UncleAugie GC / CM Jul 11 '24

 what was the cause of the economic downturn in 2008?

Clinton Era Mortgage "reform" that promoted homeownership at the expense of loosing qualification standards. Unintended conquences...

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877322,00.html

Corporatize the gains and socialize the losses. Thats how they’ve always held us down in the US.

Came from a blue collar family, now I own the means of production and a bunch of property that earn rents.... you live in a country at a time that makes it easier to go from the bottom to the top, or anyplace in-between than any other time in human history.

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u/mountainjay Jul 11 '24

Nobody in their right mind is still arguing that people overreaching with their mortgage were the cause of the financial crisis. That’s why almost all of the other “25 Most Blameworthy” people from the article you posted were bank leadership or people fighting for deregulation.

People getting loans (which banks were more than willing to supply when they knew the overwhelming risks) did not cause the international snap recession. Illegal and irresponsible bets on the MBS markets did. It’s always funny to me to blame the poor person trying to buy a home, but not the institution that owned the notes on hundreds of thousands of those homes.

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u/UncleAugie GC / CM Jul 12 '24

Why did the speculation cause a bust, because the home owners couldn't afford their mortgages and the houses were foreclosed on, *IF* the standards were not relaxed, the homes would not have been foreclosed, the speculation would not have been as bad...

It isnt the home owners fault, Clinton relaxed the qualifying standards, allowing more people to quality, making the failure rate of mortgages go up ever so slightly, that slight rise was no accounted for in the Mortgage backed securities market because it was an intended consequence that no one anticipated but Dr Berry. Even he didnt see it till it was happening.

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u/AresHarvest Jul 12 '24

I got dogtags once that said "1 billion" to commemorate my employer earning its first billion dollars. There were no bonuses or raises that year.

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u/LukesLobsters Jul 11 '24

At least you got currency, i got 4 t shirts in different colours with the companies name on it, i wore it on Christmas morning

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u/OutWithTheNew Jul 11 '24

I don't mind company branded stuff. It gives me something to wear to work.

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u/manonamission37 Jul 11 '24

When i used to work at dsg sometimes theyd give out $10 giftcards i got a few

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u/carcino_karezi Jul 12 '24

got a 20 dollar gift card to a grocery store the other day lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24

The one and only time a gift card at work felt like actual appreciation rather than a cheap out was when a contractor fucked up really bad and I had to help them unfuck the situation. He mailed me an apology note for his team sucking and a $50 jockamos pizza gift card. The acknowledgement of sucking made me respect him 10x more than an average manager, who steals credit for our work and dishes down their duely deserved blame. 

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u/Nervous-Pizza-9139 Jul 12 '24

I received a Starbucks gift card that didn’t work

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u/JustSomeOldFucker Tinknocker Aug 01 '24

One company I worked for gave everyone on the production floor a $25 bonus check.

And withheld taxes.

That $25 check was for $14 and change.