I used to work for a big local company, approx 800-1000 employees, biggest civilian employer in the area.
Every year we got a ‘bonus’ at Christmastime calculated on the number of years service. Some people who had been there for 20-30 years got a couple of thousand, and ones who had less than a year $200.
And at Thanksgiving everybody got a 10 pound frozen turkey.
Then the company was taken over by hostile corporate raiders who stopped all that. No bonuses no turkeys, nothing.
People were extremely P.O’d.....................
damn right...
they were Jewish but we still had a Christmas party & 1/2 day wi pay