Sticklebrickk
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I hit all the trending tags of today, I'm surprised July 29th is still trending, even though we are in September. Let's make it a thing, not a date, people.
Julymmph. Make it a whole week.
Finally, God Fuck the people who gave this to me.
We were assigned video programs to complete, with multiple choice and everything. I'm not going to say what company, but it's an auto supplier you may know with a catchy jingle. It shares the last name with Bill, the local social commentary guy. You get it.
Anyway, we complete these little mutiple choice question shit, and some employees are happy! It's exciting, getting to enjoy SOME fruits of our labor. Weeks go by, and I've completed the courses, and do everything to get enough to BID (yeah, this is where it gets real fucked up, we had to BID on the prizes we were getting).
I win the bid and get this email from the company (we finally had internet access as professionals in 2018 as a corporate entity within the USA. Our regional managers spouted bullshit like they would use the phones and internet to talk to their families, while getting to use the company card on food literally every lunch break,) and I get this piece of paper.
Lo and behold! The next check I have taxes taken out, FROM MY PAYCHECK! For this gift card. It had then occurred to me two things;
1) If there were taxes taken away from me, the gift card was just that, they worked out a deal with these companies to saturate their funds and tax their employees instead, which is a big red flag, OR
2)These were gifts from a corporation who wanted tax write-offs, and found them through unconventional cracks in the system, which boosted their economic value for a small time, to squeeze out the last drop out of the economy until they declare bankruptcy on all their properties, until which they will be bought by other people. Which is an even bigger red flag.
So, I'm giving it here to you, hoping somebody will use it, and I'm going to destroy it anyway.
TL;DR- I tagged everyone in the trending section and went on a rant about Corporate Entitlement, so use my gift card if you can. It's gone from me.
Goodbye and good riddance.
Sumdumguy42
Depending on your state, a gift above a certain value is considered a pecuniary addition or advantage and HAS to be taxed. Which, USUALLY means that companies make the gift exactly 1 cent less than that. What did you have to bid on this gift?
Sticklebrickk
Hours of completion in their training program.
sambaah05
Are you sure they didn't pay you more to account for the taxes? It's called "gross-up", and it's the standard practice when a company gives an employee a gift card and follows the tax laws.
Sticklebrickk
Nope. Giftcard in, taxes out.