Employee makes boss $1.5 million in commissions, only to get a $25 AMC gift card as a Christmas bonus: 'When I put in my two weeks' notice, he called legal on me'

Imagine making so much money for your boss, only to be rewarded with the price of one movie ticket.

First of all, anyone who knows anything about the current cost of movie tickets these days would know that a $25 AMC gift card is not a good deal whatsoever. You might as well gift this person an AMC Stubs membership so they can get a lot more out of that amount of money. So not only was this a paltry amount of money masked as a "Christmas bonus," but also it was a thoughtless gift on top of it all.

It's worth acknowledging that far too many employees aren't given proper thanks for all their hard work at the end of the year. Gifting someone a small present they could have gotten themselves and throwing an office party are, at the end of the day, never giving people what they actually want. We all know what those needs are: long overdue raises.

For this employee, the justification for that raise or promotion was right there on the table. They made their boss over $1.5 million in commissions that year. After the so-called "Christmas bonus" was handed out early, the employee considered this to be the straw that finally broke the camel's back. They found another job opportunity in the same field and handed in their two weeks' notice. Unfortunately, that's just where the problems began…