I'm selfish.

[Bella_Vixen]

At work, we are trying to sell the current charity of the month thing for $1.

It used to be, if we sold 500, we'd get a pizza party.*

This time around, it was strongly insinuated that whoever sold the most would get some fabulous, as of yet unnamed, prize.

As of 5pm yesterday, we had obliterated 500.

I found out that we'll get a pizza party...when we sell 1000.

I am livid.

Yes, I'm selfish because I want my damn pizza party for harassing innocent customers for a slightly shady charity.



*In the 2 years I've worked there, we never came close...except in March when we sold 250+ in 2 weeks (we started selling in the middle of the month). We totally got cheated on that one. A former coworker told me that they HAVE sold 500+ in a month and never got the party.

[bainsidhe]

Whatever the sales product of choice is, I wouldn't believe any implied promise of prize for the top seller unless it was clearly defined and clearly public. Even then I might have doubts.

Back in my Media Play days, I was the top seller of prepay reservations for the new Harry Potter book of the time. I worked a whopping 9 hours a week and still outsold everyone else. The prize was a $25 give card and let me tell you, free money is an awesome motivator.

Thing is, goals are a wonderful thing but they have to be obtainable. It also has to be a worthy prize. A pizza party that will probably take place when I'm not even working is useless to me. So are casual days (wear jeans vs. khaki's) or the privilege of drinking a soda at the register instead of water. How about a real prize? For me it's gift cards and/or money.

Sorry to hear about your lack of pizza party. Someone clearly didn't want to foot the bill. And I bet that super-awesome-top-seller-prize is a casual day.

[Becks]

I'll give you a pizza party, Lizziebeff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shadowpanda]

I don't see you as selfish. You reached the target and we're rewarded
That sucks and I would be angry too, and lose all motivation for the next contest

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

At work, we are trying to sell the current charity of the month thing for $1.

It used to be, if we sold 500, we'd get a pizza party.*

This time around, it was strongly insinuated that whoever sold the most would get some fabulous, as of yet unnamed, prize.

As of 5pm yesterday, we had obliterated 500.

I found out that we'll get a pizza party...when we sell 1000.

I am livid.

Yes, I'm selfish because I want my damn pizza party for harassing innocent customers for a slightly shady charity.



*In the 2 years I've worked there, we never came close...except in March when we sold 250+ in 2 weeks (we started selling in the middle of the month). We totally got cheated on that one. A former coworker told me that they HAVE sold 500+ in a month and never got the party.

And if/when you sell the 1000, you still won't get the party.

[blas]

You're not selfish at all. What they pulled on you guys is NOT fair in the least bit.

[MoonCat]

Ha. Cheapskates are everywhere.

We had a contest last year. They were going to draw names for a $50 grocery gift card (plus a $100 card drawing for the customers). Comes the end of the contest, no drawing for us (they picked one for the customers). For days. We finally asked why not. They claimed we hadn't sold enough of the special add-on to cover the cost of the cards.

We said, that's funny, the stated goal of the contest was to increase readership, not revenue. The marketing plan never said we had to cover the cost of the cards (plus we know they trade off advertising for these things, usually; and don't ask me to believe there's no petty cash fund). We also were able to show that their records were incorrect (what a coincidence) and we had actually sold enough to cover the cost of the cards.

They changed their minds and picked a winner. Wasn't me, but it's only fair for them to live up to their promises. It's not like $50 is going to break the bank.

[Android Kaeli]

If there's any contests, it's usually for the SM, ASM, and framing department. If they want me to do the contests, then they had better give me something in return 'cause I'm not helping otherwise.

[kokopuff3]

I don't think you're selfish at all. It seems to me, your company's pulling a fast one.

[dalesys]

I don't think you're selfish at all. It seems to me, your company's pulling a fast one.

More precisely, exactly 50% fast.

[Sleepwalker]

They tried that on me for Walk of the Small Silver Coins. Took me six months to get my 100$. I mean, sheesh, I only sold 8000 of the things, it's not like they couldn't afford it. >:[

[AriRashkae]

Something like that happened to my husband back when he worked for [Telecom Company Know By Initials]. There was a display of awesome prizes set up during October/ earlyNovember, (think new game consoles, DVD players, etc) with a drawing/raffle/thingy to be done early December for the "good" employees (rocked their QA calls, etc). First picked gets 1st choice, etc, and there were enough prizes that most of the good employees would likely have gotten something.

Then the corporate brass came for a visit, decided, "Hey! Our Xmas shopping is done!" and all the good prizes disappeared, to be replaced by company logo clocks and other such crap.

My husband would def. have been in the raffle too.

[SuperDan]

My place of employment was offering prizes for participation in an employee survey. It was stated that each "department" (in quotes because some departments were really multiple departments--mine for instance included us entertainment techs but also included Executive, HR, wardrobe, internal communications, legal, and anyone else that they didn't have a place for) that had 90% or better participation would receive a pizza party, and there would be unnamed but fabulous prizes for any "department" with 100% participation. There was also were daily drawings for everyone who had completed the survey up to that point.

The daily drawings did happen, and all was well with that. I even won a gift card for gas. Yay.

The as of yet unnamed prize hasn't been spoken of since. This confuses me because it was my "department" that was the only one to hit 100% participation. Remember executives and HR are included in my department, so I didn't think it was likely we'd be "overlooked." It also should be noted that we were the ones who went to the greatest lengths to complete our surveys--literally, just in my smaller department alone we had one worker who did his survey while on vacation in London and another who was touring with a band and happened to be in Perth, Australia when he completed his survey. This alone should be worth an honorable mention, given that we are in the state of INsanity, just over the border from the land of crooked politicians. Yet the 100% participation prize hasn't been spoken of since the survey period and all signage mentioning it has been removed.

As for the pizza parties, four or five "departments" in addition to mine exceeded 90% participation. Nothing has come directly to our department as of yet for scheduling a pizza party. A rumor has been heard that since our property had the highest participation rate on these surveys in our entire company, our general manager has decided to throw a huge pizza party for the entire property in our multi-use entertainment facility. There are three things I don't like about this: One, its no longer a special prize if its given to those who didn't earn it. Two, a huge group event isn't as nice as a smaller group event. And three, if its in our entertainment facility, we entertainment techs will be WORKING it. (Our director has already said if that turns out to be the case, HE will personally throw us our own pizza party at a time when everybody including the guy out of the country can be around.)

So I guess I'll know the fate of the pizza parties and unnamed 100% prizes in the next week or two.

[Bella_Vixen]

Rumor has it we may break 1000 this weekend. I doubt it. We may come close though.

It pisses me off that even if it does happen, people who didn't sell *any* will be in on it. I alone sold 250-275, and I know for a fact there's a good number if people have sold none, and I know of 1 person who sold 1--because I'm the one who bought it.

[Bella_Vixen]

When I got to work, we needed to sell 93 to break 1000. I sold 45*.

I'm glad to have tomorrow off.


*Which brings my personal total to 362.