Hospital Staff Receives Baked Potato As Christmas Bonus
How would you feel about receiving a potato as a bonus? (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
It’s that time of the year. Time for family parties and work holiday parties as well. Every company will handle their holiday party differently. Especially at the hospital where staff received a Baked Potato as their Christmas bonus.
Now, I’ve heard of cash bonuses. I’m also familiar with companies giving out gift cards. However, I’ve never heard of any company giving out a baked potato as a Christmas bonus.
Hospital Staff Receives Baked Potato As Christmas Bonus
It’s always nice to be appreciated. Work and employers will have many ways to go about showing their support for their staff and thanking them for all their hard dedicated work over the past year.
You know who probably deserves the most recognition? First responders and health care workers. So, you’d imagine they are taken care of by their employers during the holiday season. Perhaps they are. It just depends on how you feel about carbs in your bonus.
Management at this hospital felt that instead of a raise or a bonus in monetary form, they would provide potatoes. I mean, who doesn’t love a potato?
According to Indy 100, an X user who goes by Amanda B. shared the story on social media saying, “My work is doing a potato bar as our Christmas bonus. I’m literally getting a hospital potato as a bonus.” She continued on, “They also said it has a $15 value so it will be taxed on our next check. Does anyone need an assistant so I can just quit right now?”
That can’t be good. The Christmas bonus you give employees should never leave them wanting to quit. Now, you know that’s a bad gift. I’m no stranger to awful gifts, and that might take the cake.
It gets worse. According to Indy 100, Amanda admitted that it’s better than last year’s gift which was a 30-minute video conference call with the company’s leadership team. Okay, give me the potato, please!
Read more about the worst Christmas bonus ever here.
"Die Hard" And 5 Other Debatable Christmas Movies
‘Tis the season for Christmas movies, but what makes a Christmas movie a “Christmas movie?” Does it have to take place on Christmas? Must Christmas be the primary theme? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
It’s a question that seems to be as old as the holiday itself. Everyone has an opinion, and we could be closer to an answer than ever before.
In determining what makes a Christmas movie a “Christmas movie,” Yahoo! UK came up with a two-question litmus test. To try to determine if a movie is indeed a Christmas movie, they say you have to first ask “does watching the film at any other time of year feel weird? If no, then it’s not a Christmas movie.”
Then, they suggest you ask, “if you take Christmas out of the movie, does it still make sense? If yes, then it’s not a Christmas movie.”
Die Hard & Other Debatable Christmas Movies
I think those are fair criteria. It’s not a Christmas movie if you can watch it during the summer and have no issue. If it has the same feel in August as it does on Christmas, it shouldn’t be a Christmas movie.
Likewise, I feel like Christmas has to be the primary theme of the movie. If you can remove Christmas from the plot and it still makes sense it shouldn’t be considered a Christmas movie.
So, given these characteristics I feel like Die Hard would not be considered a Christmas movie. Despite the movie taking place on Christmas, you can watch the movie all year long. It doesn’t have to be exclusively tied to Christmas. To me, it doesn’t pass the litmus test.
In a new poll, 26% of people said that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. 50% of people surveyed said it is not. Then, 23% say they “aren’t sure.”
Die Hard isn’t the only movie that we question if it’s a Christmas movie or not. Some of the best movies of all-time could fall into this vague area. Here are five other movies that are debatable Christmas movies, just like Die Hard.
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