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i should have known something was off when management once made the intern bake me a cake for winning a credit contest. there were a lot of off-keel things like this over the years, including coupons for extra breaks with tons of rules on how to use them, but... the cake. seriously

#my last job handed these out as credit application incentives #they had to stop because the people who always got them were the cashiers #and if the cashiers are on break then the floor people are not in their dept they're on registers #there were people who were so good at credit they got at least an extra hour of breaks a week #it was causing so much resentment against credit people #the goal of the coupons wasn't to reward the solicitor tho imo...#...it was to pin someone on registers with the expectation they also get some credit #you were basically sentencing floor people to registers if you cashed in one of these coupons #i don't think they stopped because people were taking too many breaks #i think they stopped because it was creating genuine workplace animosity #at first they added redemption stipulations #then they added earning redemptions like 'you must get your daily quota to get one'#but even with that one of our credit people always made his goal and had an extra break every day

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