Employee Receives Unique Christmas Bonus From Office - A Baked Potato

The festive season calls for a lot of joy, celebration, delectable food, a spirit of giving, and, of course, the Christmas bonus. Employees, especially in Western countries, look forward to their bonuses throughout the year. But imagine that after all that waiting, you get a single potato in the name of a bonus. Isn’t it terrible? Well, it actually happened with an employee. What was more annoying was that she was being told she would have to pay tax on it.

In a shocking incident, an employee named Amanda B was left feeling understandably salty after her company decided to give out an unusual Christmas bonus – a baked potato. The story doesn’t end here. The company not only gave a baked potato as a bonus but also imposed a tax on it due to its assessed value of $15. Yes, you read that right.

Amanda B shared her “villain origin story” on the microblogging platform X earlier this month. The post has since then gone viral with hundreds of shocking responses expressing disbelief and amusement hearing the incident.

Amanda wrote, “My work is doing a potato bar as our Christmas bonus. I am literally getting a hospital potato as a bonus. They also said it has a $15 value so it will be taxed on our next check. Does anyone need an assistant so I can just quit right now?”

In a follow-up tweet, Amanda shared her ordeal and added, “This is my Charlie Brown villain origin story. People telling me to start a fight or a riot, girl, I need my job. I don’t know, you guys, do I show up with Tupperware and just get my $$$$ worth in sour cream?”

Nonetheless, Amanda acknowledged that the potato bar was an improvement over the gift received the year before. “This is an improvement from the 30-minute Wexbex with leadership as our gift last year. It was a Webex because the year before they had to be in the same room with us and they’re too good and not doing that again,” she wrote.

Later on, Amanda posted a picture of the baked potato, writing, “Your attention please! The moment you’ve all been waiting for, my $15 taxed potato.”

X users were stunned to hear Amanda’s agony, and since being shared, her post has amassed a plethora of reactions on social media, offering their sympathies.

An user commented, “I may be dumb, but are you saying that your company is giving employees loaded baked potatoes as Christmas gifts, and you must declare them as income?”

“The worst Christmas bonus of 2023 is a potato. Bonus: It’s from a hospital. Double bonus: Employees are taxed on the value,” another user wrote.

“Ah, I can just feel the Christmas spirit emanating around me…. kindness and generosity everywhere,” an individual said.