My peer spilt his personal bonus among his team and now i feel pressured to do so

[Anonymous]

I just can't with this place anymore. Just can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a department wide meeting where it was announced Teams A, B, and D made their goal. The team leader gets XYZ bonus and each team member gets ABC bonus. These amounts are fixed and we all know the dollar number attached to these incentives. I am the leader of team A. The leader of Team D publicly announced he is splitting his personal bonus among the team to sweeten everyones package. The leader of Team B and myself left the meeting kind of annoyed because now we feel in the hot seat. We both talked in the elevator and both mentioned we needed/wanted our bonuses for Christmas and won't be following Team D leaders idea. Well the next day I learn leader B did indeed split his bonus. He did "count himself in" so it was slightly lower extra amount than team D but still doubles the members bonuses. I now HAVE to do this right? Ive been a team leader for 8 years and gotten the bonus 6 of them and no one has ever done this before this year. Leader D is a new employee and has a high earning spouse and this is her "fun" job and I just dont think take home makes a huge difference to her. Leader B confided in me he felt like he had to follow the office trend or else his team members would try and switch teams in 2018 when a new project permitted. I agree with that sentiment but still feel resentful. Ugh. I know what I have to do but it just kinda stings.

Also

Anonymous wrote:Leader bonus is under 5k and teammate bonus is under 1k.

And

Anonymous wrote: This isn't a huge money making job BTW (we all earn about 200-300k)

+1 for I can't even.


OP, all that pity you built up in this thread is about to come crashing down on

[Anonymous]

I make 150 and my bonus was 10k. This can’t be real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel terribly for you. I'd take it to HR, for sure. And I'd pull aside the Team Leader who made the public proclamation and explain why what he or she did is unprofessional, and sucks.

What do you all think HR should do? This is a supervisor giving a (very extravagant) holiday gift to her subordinates, and letting the amount of that gift be determined by the size of her bonus. Unless there's an express policy of no gifts among employees, it's not an HR issue at all.

Now, she shouldn't have made the public announcement. But it really doesn't make a difference - even without the announcement, her subordinates would have been excited about the bonus and word would have gotten out.

It's a shitty situation for the other supervisors for sure, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah, 200k-300k isn't a huge money making job. Peanuts.

"fun job"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make 150 and my bonus was 10k. This can’t be real.

+1

[Anonymous]

Are you in medical device sales or pharma sales?