Worked for an insurance company and a buddy of mine was put on a project where they were putting in 20-30 hours per week OT. At the the project appreciation party they gave everybody a $5 gift card to the company cafeteria. Later on that day, there were gift cards all over the floor in garbage cans people were so po’d.
My wife worked for a school system and one year for appreciation, they had an admin cut scrap paper in quarters and staple them and hand them out as notepads. I thought my wife was going to stroke out.
The hand made note pads sounds very Zimbabwe.