If you’ve ever worked in retail or really anything ‘lower level’ that interacts closely with customers, you see how they push these kids to get people to sign up for the store credit card or some other nonsense and it’s the supervisors and the execs who get the bonuses for whipping the employees.
And what do the people (some who really do great jobs selling this garbage) who do the REAL work get (keep in mind they get in trouble and sometimes fired for having ‘low numbers’ for something that really was never part of the job when they were hired or mentioned to them?)
They get a raffle, a free CD or some such nonsense. meanwhile, the person who just told someone else to tell the cashiers or sales associates to get to work OR ELSE gets his next vacation paid for.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I like to tell people about when I sold clothes when I was in college, making minimum wage (then 4.25 an hour). Working part-time, we were required to sell thousands of dollars in clothing a week. One week, I somehow made the stretch goal amount, and sold over 6K of clothes. I was rewarded with a $20 gift certificate to the store. They took taxes out, so it ended up closer to $16 or $17. Then, they wouldn't let me use my store discount with it, so I was able to buy maybe 2 pairs of underwear with it.