Reasons to be self-employed, #122606
by Sue Bailey
This post was written in December 2006; specific information contained within it may be out of date.
In case you thought you were missing a great big Chrismtas bonus, Slate has some news for you about the shocking level of Scrooginess amongst bosses. My favourite has to be the one British example from their list:
“During my time with the company as a consumer electronic service engineer, the annual Christmas bonus given to all employees was a bag of potatoes,” [writes an employee of a Grimsby electronics retailer]. Apparently a relative of the boss owned a potato farm.
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