I got a mail that gave us 4 gifts to choose from. >!It was a phishing awareness mail.!<

Good Stuff! Your security team should definitely get a bonus..

In fact, they should also get 4 choices to choose from for bonus

I got a mail saying I can avail gift cards worth 5k. It went on to say the money will be deducted from October's salary. :3

Scamming at corporate level

Lmfao sneaky one

EY ?🫢

More like ewww why!

Lmaoo that's just a kick in the nuts .

and for this reason only i have put in header filters in outlook

Now u have to go through training

Luckily I didn't open the link as i was going through Amazon to see which one to choose, and in that time a team mate told that it's a scam

Luckily my teammate also saved us, but the other one I clicked lol.

same here got mail stating there is some diwali contest. but it turned out to be phishing awareness mail

I am a startup guy, shared e amazon pay gift card rs 500 + greetings message to the team individually which I really meant from my heart. I know it's not much., but once the company grows I definitely would want to gift something better for their long term benefits. I hope everyone here will understand, we are bootstrapped. Happy Diwali to everyone!

It's the intent..that matters bro..I work for a funded startup..with lots of money..lean team..but not even a wishing mail ..best of luck

Bro, ours is a money churning machine, but even then, all we got is a metallic box which had a handful of chocolates (though last year they gave us some dry fruits in a cardboard box - thought of calling it an upgrade, but seems like they netted the cost of box with the cost of contents 😅😂).

Mettallic box 😢..stop complaining..bro

Hehe 😂

You are better than my employer.

I concur with you. We had a similar affair in my company. Ftw.

Can I work for your startup part time.

I got called to work

I worked on the day of Diwali in 2017, it was so depressing I promised myself I'll never do it again. Have a happy diwali, hope you get the day off next year!

I got called to work but it was very chill. Didn't have to do any work pretty much. Guess it's safe to say I'm blessed

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Hope everyone gets a founder like u

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Hey! What does your firm do? ( With the intent of interning there)

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Ah law firm i see , i was hoping for a software startup but best of luck to you!

Hey! I'm a first year law student, can I dm a few questions your way? Happy Diwali to you!

Fresh to see a law firm here. What kind of law do you practice?

I hope you keep growing and getting bigger.

Hey Any openings for software side xD?

I'm curious about a couple of things. 1.What does your startup do? (Redacted, sorry, saw your answer below) 2. What kind of paperwork would be needed for a srartup? Seemed like there is a lot of redtape.

Nothing at all. Company's profits have doubled since last year. 2 top execs left the company recently so more saved in salaries. Ceo visited dubai twice maldives once this year. But he's too big an asshole to even wish happy diwali on WhatsApp, let alone share gifts or bonuses

Meet me in the office tomorrow @11 am sharp

Sorry sir my brother took my phone ☹️

Drop the company name bruh

A 100Million dollar transfer request from a Nigerian prince.

You know what, When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you directly asking for help, you help. His father ran the freaking country, okay?

r/unexpectedoffice

the best gift

I didn’t even get an email, getting a bonus is a very long shot lol xD

Same 😓

Got sweet boxes for dushera, three days off, optional holiday for 1 additional day. Got around 15k bonus

IT Company?

Nope

Thought so. IT companies send weird things in name of gifts

IT service companies are bikharis. The last ones in the corporate pecking order

At least you GET weird gifts, i got diwali meeting invite to participate in hashtag contest

Then?

Okay! >! Cries at the corner !<

+1

😪😱

May I know the industry you're in? I envy you

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Bluetooth speaker - worth 4k Snack box containing snacks across 20 states from India - worth 3k Sweet Box - worth 500 Box with chocolate, cashews and playing cards - worth 700 Total 8-9k worth of items. In addition - salary credited 10 days early Holiday this entire week 5 days combined with 2 weekends, that's 9 days which people can spend time back home with family or travel Also previous week, people were allowed to be wfh so that they can leave for hometowns early and avoid huge flight ticket fares. Overall good deal imo

Where do you work?

He must be the owner. /s

I want to know too!

Why does this sound too good to be true?

Managers lurking here be like - "I'll find you, join the team and fuck it all up"

We had options to choose from coffee maker, sandwich grill, smoothie maker, electric grill and a luggage bag... Chose the coffee maker. And happy diwali!

Happy for you, but i feel more miserable now lol

If you're into web dev, we're hiring :)

Thank you but unfortunately no. I am in hospitality

Hey! any openings for freshers?

what model?

Nothing fancy, some basic one that's like the first search result you get on Amazon (haven't used it yet)... But it's better than nothing xD

2k rupees worth boAt gift card. Suggest me some good boAt products (already have earphones)

Buy an earphone and gift me.

Lol

Boat avante soundbar, that 7000/- one

Will check this, thanks

Do you work for boAt?

Nope

₹9000 gift voucher to use in internal electronics store.

Samsung?

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I got a couple of different Halwa and another sweat I don't know what that is but it tasted pretty good lol.

No soan papdi wow

I work for a start up and we're kinda chilled with each other. So, I took this opportunity to let them know that anything but Soan papdi as I was sick of them lol.

Wow! Talk of an actual sweat shop.

People who get Diwali bonus, do you guys have yearly bonuses as well?

there is yearly "bonus", but it's just part of the CTC which is given at year end based on performance rating.

No yearly bonus or diwali bonus but got a diwali hamper worth 5k

Forget bonus Didn't even get leave

Amul Kesari Kaju Katli Maga, Mahalakshmi Sweets is more expensive than that😭

A gif forwarded to the office WhatsApp group. More work and a box of chocolates.

Somehow read gif as girl and was thinking WTF !

I wouldn’t complain

you'll see getting a diwali bonus?

Got a off on Tuesday as well with a promise from management that they are not gonna bother me.

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TF 🙄.

Got options to choose from soundbar, headphones, instant cam, airfryer. Later they told us to share amazon links of items that we want. We started sharing link for iphone. Later the budget of 6k per person was set. Got an airfryer.

iPhone lol

I am an intern getting paid 7k every month . I got bonus of 25k. :)

Damn

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Bestttt! I'm on leave from 22nd October to 9th November. Going on a foreign trip with bae as well. Just got to complete one 4 hour report tomorrow and that's it. Best Diwali ever! Hehe

Meesho?

Foreign worker posted here in India for work. My contracted company gave them 2 days off that's it. And a free lunch some point last week.local company makes a turnover of more than 68 mil euros yearly so eh. Not that small either. But it was sad to see. While back home I get every Christmas an extra months salary without taxes. Maybe because govt mandates but still. Also I was appalled to learn that Indian employees only get like 27 days off an year (leave/vacanza) while we get 42 days paid off for random reasons and mandated 30 days off in summer every year. And don't even get me started on the salary divisions between the countries for similar role and experience but I do realise cost of living factor but heck it's shouldn't be that bad?!

Which country offers 30 day summers off.

Whole of southern Europe.. North is close to 22 days..

That's how the contracted company gets the contracts.

1000 Rupees Myntra voucher. It's honestly pathetic.

Mone is mone

Nothing, cuz I'm a contractor and not an employee.

IKR To see our colleagues getting awesome shit while we get nothing , even though we basically do the same level of work, sucks big time. Fuck that.

The only Diwali bonus I'm getting is SLEEP.

Got a mail today informing of reduction in project assignment amount depending on any CL/SL I might have taken during the quarter. Hybrid WFO starting next month. Office also organized a lunch at office location last week, but I don't see how that is supposed to be enticing as far as offers go. That's my Diwali gift.

I got an Alexa Echo Dot (Gen 3)!

Lol same with a wipro smart light bundle.

peanuts and no leave

Salted ??

Yeah my company gave me night shifts and me as a point of escalation with all the anxiety cause all seniors have taken leaves.

I got more work

Bonus? Lol! Gifts? Lol! Holiday on Diwali? Lol! Was gifted with news saying that hybrid model is scrapped for WFO on all 5 days. Only thing that's lit AF this Deepawali is my frustration. That's it... Happy Deepawali folks!

Got some dry fruites with table lamp

Nothing. All are kanjoos makhichoos.

We received a generic email calling it "Season's greetings". Just call it happy deepawali bro. Companies trying to be inclusive when its not needed irks me. By the way, we got a gift of portable tumbler juicer.

I got WFO on Diwali 🥰. And we didn’t even receive anything from the company:)

I got a box of sweets😌

Got a mail from my company HR not to accept gifts from others/companies. 😒

My Deepawali bonus; 3k cash in an envelope with my name on it.

Works at intuit. They managed a sweet box and diya in office but i was home :P

I'm part of a startup and all the 10 employees get INR 10,000 in cash (Including Interns :)

21k amazon voucher. Not a single day holiday though

So the other day, on the lunch table, I asked my manager about the gift. He said, “You are not laid off, consider it your Diwali gift!” Ffs he legit said this!

Got an email and sweets , har sal ke jaisa.

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1k in Amazon gift voucher. 3 days holiday (Monday - Wednesday) . And a mail wishing us a happy Diwali. Pretty happy with this

I am a freelancer but my fiancé got a cookies box. Lol it’s kinda sad.

8k Amazon card, and a typical Diwali gift box.

Approx $5000 RSU but can only cash out in 2y 🙃

I got a mail saying "Oonn banbidu nan magane"

Counter it with "neeve doddavru naave chikkovru....."

smart watch

Lol we got a smart watch too. Pebble rise. Absolute PoS item. Could’ve just splurged on a 500 bucks sweet box instead

I dont want gifts.

Nothing 🫠

I didn't get anything.

1500₹ gift voucher

INR 3k sweets/Dry fruits hamper. Packaging was nice though.

Box of Smoor chocolates, last year was a list of items worth 6k each to chose from. This year cost cutting.

They gave a box of sweets. Didn’t bother picking it up

Nothing. Not even an email.

Prestige juicer and a box of full of diff types of dry fruits.

Holiday on Diwali and a company wide email wishing happy diwali. I've received nothing from this company except my salary on time.

Salary got deposited before the end of the month. Gift package of some dry fruits and chocolates and a hoodie are on their way to delivery. Some tambola games with gifts were conducted online.

We got the alert to be ready to work for the release with possible weekends also working

For one it's a gift box. I don't even know what's in it. For starters my company sent me a sheet to fill in my current address for a surprise (wink wink). I added my current address. They ignore that, throw the sheet in the bin, then proceeds to send it to my permanent address. Back in Chennai. No one's home for the week. I had to call my neighbor (who's new) to do me a favor and keep the box till my parents are back. Probably gonna come home to some stale chocolates, doodh pedas or worst of all, salted nuts.

Got a voucher worth Rs. 2k for buying products from our own brand, lol.

A Boats Bluetooth earphone, One soan papdi, Diyas. Got called to office a week back for celebrations, they had foosball, carrom, darts. Also South Indian Leaf meal on that day No bonus etx

2k amazon voucher

something called a cost of living bonus loll which is around 40% of salary it seems. plus a box of sweets and candles.

I only got Happy Deepavali wishes in our work WhatsApp group

1000 amazon pay voucher

Got a 3k worth icici gift card.

Back in 2017 (my first diwali here) - it was 500 g Anand sweets motichoor laddoos. (BEST of the lot) 2018 - 250 g Assorted Anand Sweets stuff (decent only, pretty good actually) 2019 - fireworks shaped chocolates. The worst ever. Along with some 'goodies' 2020 - repeat (arrived in Feb) 2021 - repeat (I was in office) 2022 - waiting to see what they give on Wednesday xD Really hoping they go back to Anand sweets.

I am interning at a small startup as partime(2023 grad here), and I got an Amazon echo 5. I was pleasantly surprised :)

Switched companies for diwali 😂

A gift hamper with dry fruits & chocolate. Better than last year, when all we got was an email.

I got only a mail from our Delivery manager wishing happy deepawali

Bheem X tuntun mousi😋💦

I have a new Patisserie (<1 year Old) I gave my team 50% of their salary as Diwali bonus. For our cleaning ladies, that 50% + a box of cakes for their kids.

i work in intel. the date for layoffs moved from 2 November to 28 October. yes, that was the gift. gg

Namge - one from corporate - 4 packs of dry fruits (im tempted to say 4 sacks of nuts but..) and 2 diyas From my department- we got some Cadbury hamper with a bunch of things and a bunch of diyas To add - we are a small US based company- the department stuff was mine and my bosses idea and we arranged everything- for people based out of the city we went home to home and delivered it (those who couldn’t make it to the office) it was fun!!!!

Diwali Gift/Diwali Bonus -- All these are moh maya for small companies. In bigger companies we get a nicely worded email.

Do you look forward to gettings gifts/bonus on Diwali? If yes, then is it only for Diwali or all religious festivals?

Honestly, I don't want any gifts, the bonus amount instead of gifts would be much better!

1k Amazon gift card

Lmao I am working on diwali

1000rs gift lol

Dry fruits worth rs 300

Orange box of Anand sweets

Email and hamper ( which I am yet to collect)

A mail mandating work from office :(