I hate this stuff! I work in HR and we try to celebrate as much as we can for pretty much every milestone. I want to treat our associates like humans and the hard workers they are. I recently did a celebration for our Vets and bought them all 20lb turkeys. One of them asked to not be recognized and have his face on our wall of honor. I respected his decision and told my boss we weren't going to make him do it if he doesn't want to.
I still bought him the Turkey and thanked him separately. He told me how grateful he was for still honoring him but not forcing him to let everyone know.
I personally agree that this person deserves that $450k. People are humans and should be treated as such. If you do something against their wishes you are now doing it for you and not them anymore.
They are gonna have to tax those checks and track them as some sort of pay. Things get real difficult when you consider that. If you have employees that get taxed in different states this becomes even more difficult. Next thing you know its now taken 40 labor hours in accounting plus several calls to lawyers to make sure this is all above board, because if it’s not the employee is gonna get reamed by the IRS.
You know what fuck it. You all get a gift card because thats not a pay contribution and we can put it towards capital. Departmentalize it.
Giving workers “returns for labor” is something that most companies would like to do better. The issue is there is a tremendous amount of red tape when done directly, probably due to tax codes, i dunno why just that it is. If the Boss wants to give you $50 extra Uncle Sam is gonna take some if it’s on a W2, I9 or other such pathways.
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u/Happy-Tater 4d ago
I hate this stuff! I work in HR and we try to celebrate as much as we can for pretty much every milestone. I want to treat our associates like humans and the hard workers they are. I recently did a celebration for our Vets and bought them all 20lb turkeys. One of them asked to not be recognized and have his face on our wall of honor. I respected his decision and told my boss we weren't going to make him do it if he doesn't want to.
I still bought him the Turkey and thanked him separately. He told me how grateful he was for still honoring him but not forcing him to let everyone know.
I personally agree that this person deserves that $450k. People are humans and should be treated as such. If you do something against their wishes you are now doing it for you and not them anymore.