Employee quits after making boss $1.5 million and getting a paltry holiday 'bonus' as thanks: 'For Christmas he got me a $25 AMC gift card'

'Tis the season to receive an underwhelming Christmas bonus from your out-of-touch employer! Sometimes, it's a basket of stale cookies. Sometimes, it's a water bottle with the company logo on it that you can't even put in the dishwasher. And sometimes, it's a $25 gift card to the AMC movie theater near you, which for this employee, was a full 1.5 hours away and in an entirely other state.

First of all, anyone who knows anything about the state of moviegoing today would implicitly understand that a $25 gift certificate would be the cost of one movie and maybe a small popcorn if you're especially lucky. Anyone who knows anything about AMC will understand that if you're going to get someone a $25 gift certificate, you might as well gift them the first month of an AMC stubs membership, which costs the same amount but allows subscribers to attend multiple movies a week if they wish. The point is that this employer got it all wrong in so many ways.

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