Oh, the memories!
Yahoo! News - Air Canada Service Staff Get Burger-Coupon Bonus
This reminds me of when my brother and I were young 'uns, delivering papers for the Hutchinson Leader. 125 of those shopping supplements - at this time of year, overflowing with ads - each Saturday, for a nickel apiece. $6.25 a week for lugging those things through the Minnesota weather.
So it was really wonderful for us to see a Christmas bonus envelope in with the regular paycheck! Imagine the disappointment to find just a couple of $1 gift certificates to a fast food joint. Not even enough to get a simple cheeseburger and fries, nevermind a beverage or anything fancy.
Worst Christmas bonus ever. Better not even to give a Christmas bonus than to give one that makes you look fantastically, breathtakingly cheap.
Even though I still think that was a pretty crummy way to handle things, at least I can recognize now that the Leader is a small-town paper, and probably doesn't have all kinds of money to burn. Not only that, but its carriers were mostly kids who were happy to get a few bucks each week to blow at K-mart. (Yes, that was in the pre-Wally World days, when K-mart was king.)
But this little article about Air Canada is really remarkable, especially when you realize that their meager bonuses, given to only 100 employees, cost the airline essentially nothing.
Except for bad publicity, that is. ;)
Of course, now I'm just waiting for some stinker on the church council to read this and stick a a couple of Mickey Dee's bucks into my December paycheck, just to get a rise out of me! *LOL*
This reminds me of when my brother and I were young 'uns, delivering papers for the Hutchinson Leader. 125 of those shopping supplements - at this time of year, overflowing with ads - each Saturday, for a nickel apiece. $6.25 a week for lugging those things through the Minnesota weather.
So it was really wonderful for us to see a Christmas bonus envelope in with the regular paycheck! Imagine the disappointment to find just a couple of $1 gift certificates to a fast food joint. Not even enough to get a simple cheeseburger and fries, nevermind a beverage or anything fancy.
Worst Christmas bonus ever. Better not even to give a Christmas bonus than to give one that makes you look fantastically, breathtakingly cheap.
Even though I still think that was a pretty crummy way to handle things, at least I can recognize now that the Leader is a small-town paper, and probably doesn't have all kinds of money to burn. Not only that, but its carriers were mostly kids who were happy to get a few bucks each week to blow at K-mart. (Yes, that was in the pre-Wally World days, when K-mart was king.)
But this little article about Air Canada is really remarkable, especially when you realize that their meager bonuses, given to only 100 employees, cost the airline essentially nothing.
Except for bad publicity, that is. ;)
Of course, now I'm just waiting for some stinker on the church council to read this and stick a a couple of Mickey Dee's bucks into my December paycheck, just to get a rise out of me! *LOL*
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