Well the post here was correct. Just announced today a new quarterly bonus for Frontline employees. The top 25% of Frontline employees, dark blue on QoS and with five bars or managers with the best SWAG for the quarter are eligible for, wait for it. 1000 awardperQ points.
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You are wrong. I was in the union call center 20-some years ago and I got monthly bonuses. I was high sales in my office and it wasn't unusual for me to get $500-$800 in bonus each month. At that time we received the bonus money in American Express Traveler's Checks and those bonuses were 100% based on our individual sales. I left the call center and moved to a non-sales/call center role before they changed it to points and I can't remember what the call their points currently.
Maybe do some fact checking before you deliver false info and contribute to the drama around here.
If the company wants to save money pay the executives in AwardsPerQs. This is just insulting. Verizon is now resorting to paying its employees in gift cards and points. Well I guess someone has to sacrifice so the executives can continue to get paid in real currency.
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Call center employees never got bonus cash. They are union, and the CWA wouldn't allow us to reward performance with cash.
I'm really unclear what the logic is, but reward points (they were called AwardPerqs) and gift cards were somehow acceptable.
I was online for a couple of years, and I'm sure it's not as lucrative now (we certainly weren't taxed on what we got), but I got a washer and dryer, pots and pans, cd players, ipods some Milwaukee tools... a couple cordless drills, a circular saw, and a sawzall. I got a bunch of cameras including a nikon DSLR. Two decades later I still have all of it except the washer and dryer, and gift cards. And, yes, I would have rather had cash.
I know some reps who couldn't live within their paycheck that would order stuff and sell it to supplement their pay for bills or dr-g/alcohol/gambling habit.
Lol. Typical cheapskate company BS. Maybe we’ll get some cold pizza too!!! Woo Hoo
Exactly. Free points? More like not so free points. 40% of your actual hard earned US dollars in trade for "Schrute bucks" It's almost like a litmus test for intelligence, one side "oh awesome free points, Verizon is so nice and awesome" the other side "Wtf? this is insulting"
What's really bad is that these points we get are taxable. So, when you cash them in. You get taxed on the value of whatever you pick with them. You get taxed real money out of your pay. Like, how we get taxed on recognizing you dollars. Because of that. I don't try to earn any. Or when i do earn them. I'll just let them sit. I'm not playing that game.
What's the exchange rate for Stanley nickels to Shrute bucks?
I believe they stopped giving actual bonus money to wireline call center reps 15-ish years ago. They call it something different from AwardPerqs, I believe, but seems to be similar concept. They can cash their points for gift cards or other "merchandise"
It's real. Saw the email this morning when I got back into the office.
We work for out of touch clowns, maybe Hans should dump his million dollar salary in favor of a chance to pick a new set of pans or sunglasses each quarter!
Please tell me this is a sick and distasteful joke....
F**k you, pay me!
They are the new RYA awards. 5 points is around 1 us dollar. So around $200 worth of points every quarter for being top 25% in the company
What is an AwardperQ point? Can I make my car payment? Buy lunch? If I save up enough points can i trade them in at the counter for a whistle or a bouncy ball? You're telling me I have to use the worst system of measurement ever invented to compare myself to others (QoS) signal bar. SMH It just keeps getting worse.