Oprah's $10,000 gifts

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Oprah's $10,000 gifts

Postby Silver_Surfer1 » Thu Jun 17, '10, 7:19 pm

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who also has her own magazine, has given checks of $10,000.00 to each of her magazine staff employees in honor of the magazine's tenth anniversary to thank them for their hard work, etc. She also gave them Apple iPads.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=506330&GT1=28103

Wow, wouldn't you just love to have a boss like this??

I'm thinking that maybe she could have gotten a good deal or discount on all the iPads, but the $10,000 bucks .... wow!

Has your boss ever given you any gift remotely like this, or even close? Or just anything that you liked at all?
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Re: Oprah's $10,000 gifts

Postby Atlinsmere » Thu Jun 17, '10, 8:28 pm

Old boss once bought the staff a meal at Boston Pizza. It was delicious. And about once every three months he'd buy the staff some icecream if the sales were high enough.
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Re: Oprah's $10,000 gifts

Postby Tsunami » Thu Jun 17, '10, 8:39 pm

It must be nice to have so much money that you can give it away like that. >.>

Er, that aside, I don't have much else to say about this. Other than that was the first thought that came to mind when I read the words "Oprah's", "$10,000", and "gifts". :D
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Re: Oprah's $10,000 gifts

Postby Tanith » Fri Jun 18, '10, 3:06 am

Tsunami wrote:Other than that was the first thought that came to mind when I read the words "Oprah's", "$10,000", and "gifts". :D
Muaha! Me, too.

What has my boss done? Uh... well, I'm a government contractor, so I have about eleventy two bosses as it is. My company doesn't give out bonuses the way some of the other contracting companies do. I don't know if it's cheapness or what. We get shirts every year, but I don't like them. The program management for the contract gives out small bonuses every year. It's usually a $100 Visa gift card, and that's not too shabby. My office holds potlucks and ice cream socials occasionally. I'm not around for any of them because I work the late shift. I don't complain, though. I get paid well, I stay busy, and I'm working to provide security for this country. That's what I'm really interested in.
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Re: Oprah's $10,000 gifts

Postby Thoul » Fri Jun 18, '10, 4:13 am

I wish I could afford to give away that much money, or even worked for someone who gave bonuses like that. :blank:
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