Been with the company many years, back when they valued employees spot awards were a common occurrence, a surprise thousand buck bonus here, a 3 thousand bonus there many times over the years. Eventually that went away in place of Bravo awards. Bravos were monetary based but much harder to get maybe a 250 bonus or a 1 thousand bonus if lucky but few and far between. Most times it was a gift card which they actually taxed you on. They did away with that to cut costs too. Now a Bravo is a glorified email which means nothing. The days of valuing employees with rewards/bonuses are long gone along with worthless surveys. Replaced with being stressed out all the time working ridiculous hours, little to no merit increases and RRPs are minimal. Forcing 2s on employees to get them out of the company when they don't deserve it. Valuing employees is replaced with valuing shareholders only and you are seeing the effects of it. Get out while you can, find a smaller company that is private that actually cares about their employees
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There are a lot of things that were stripped away through the years.. The stock purchase plan went to he-l as well. Anyone remember the lookback? Where you could buy stock at the price it was 6 months earlier.
I remember spot awards, first one was a total surprise. Then it turned into bravo points
Yep. And we claims competitions that we could get awards for if we met certain metrics. Nice bonus awards. That was 18 or so years ago.
I don’t remember SPOT. But I remember when I would get $250, $500 or even $1000 from Bravo rewards. And then they took that away. Sad.
You can’t see me but my hand is in the air! Been here17 years and I remember them well. Bravo Awards is a dying program. Everyone knows it is a joke and yet they keep pushing out the emails to recognize someone. Nope. Right now my head is down working and hopefully off the radar of the layoff reaper.
At time they also called them Kudos
Yes! That was the best! Racked up a bunch of Amazon gifts cards.
SPOT awards were a very nice motivator . Annually, managers had a bucket of funds they could use to distribute awards to those who, they determined, were going beyond the quo and making a difference. The Bravo stuff is a way to recognize peers for doing something helpful and ....blah, blah....it's recognition (which is good), but cash is king. Switching to the Bravo model save the company money by rewarding people with widgets that costs the company a fraction of the price as cash......either way, I got a pair of sunglasses and a new drill out of it.....would rather have the cash.
Lol yes and then removed with a promise they would be moved to rrp budget. Never happened money was gone. Of course they still have bravos it's just a useless task. Oh and remember employee appreciation day coming up. Perfect bravo time.
I do remember them both as a pleasantly surprised recipient, and then as a manager able to reward throughout the year those on my team that went above and beyond and I could always count on to deliver.