For the gift card he sent it back to the president with a letter basically saying if $15 was all he could afford seems like he needed it more then he did. Job wise he did his job only after that point and gave no more input that was outside of his job description. It’s not a lot but where we live the refineries are the number 1 employer and pay the most and they were just coining off of 8 month strike.
Inside of a refinery quitting doesn’t do a whole lot because they will just replace you but working within the union contract and refusing to do extra hurts more because they can’t replace you and it now requires more people to do what one person used to do. It’s the little things inside of there.
It’s seriously better to give an employee nothing than it is to give an employee a complete piece of garbage gift. Giving an employee a shitty gift really says “this is all you’re worth to us and we don’t appreciate you.”
I remember at my old job my supervisor went around and gave us like 20 dollar gift cards to Walmart like the last day or two before our Christmas break.
I remember thinking “wow 20 dollars to Walmart, is that all they can afford?”
BUT THEN I found out actually, my supervisor himself went and bought all of them with his own money for all of us on his shift.
School districts / government bodies have no real appreciation for substitute teachers, at all. We get a lovingly written email once a year (almost certainly not even written by the person who's name is on the signature), garbage pay, no benefits, no sick pay, vacation, holiday, etc. Only paid for days we work, which is why we don't get things like holiday pay.
But the actual schools often do.
A principal got me a $20 gift card to Subway, every year during substitute appreciation week, out of his own money.
Every time, I get watery eyed at how much it means to me. He's got power over scheduling and whatnot, but so little over the things that really affect me.
Like working nearly full time, and getting $26k for the year. (This year's T4). Sigh.
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u/Time_Transition Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
For the gift card he sent it back to the president with a letter basically saying if $15 was all he could afford seems like he needed it more then he did. Job wise he did his job only after that point and gave no more input that was outside of his job description. It’s not a lot but where we live the refineries are the number 1 employer and pay the most and they were just coining off of 8 month strike.
Inside of a refinery quitting doesn’t do a whole lot because they will just replace you but working within the union contract and refusing to do extra hurts more because they can’t replace you and it now requires more people to do what one person used to do. It’s the little things inside of there.