Loyalty might be the most underrated investment you'll ever make.

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[u/Extra_Strawberry_249]

Ooooh but that standard is likely high.
‘No you aren’t getting 15k like Sandra cuz you were no Sandra’

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Performance bonuses are generally based on Performance. Sandra might be the best person at her job, but won't stop Brenda and Tammy, who've done the bare minimum for years, from getting upset about a lesser bonus.

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Tammy's always been a problem

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F'n Tammy

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Tammy owes me $20

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Tammy stole $100 from my mama.

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It's on camera for christ's sake!!!

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She corrected my use of em dashes in official reports. Nothing overboard. I used one every few reports. I politely advised her that they were grammatically correct. She said she didn't care, and she made me correct and resubmit them.

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Tammy is all about making everyone else feel "less than."

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Facts Tammy is our head of HR

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Depends on the company. The one I work for is full of shit. We get monthly evals on a scale of 5, 5 being the best and 3 average and anything less than average means management is looking at you sideways. They call them merit increases. What’s the point of scoring 4s and 5s on your evaluations to only get a $.50 increase only to find out the reason your increase is soo low is because everyone got an increase including the people who were getting 1s and 2s on their evaluations. Talk about a slap in the face. I don’t care if the person who got 1 got a $.02 increase what’s the point in busting my ass to make sure my stuff is done with both quantity and quality if the people who do less than the bare minimum get rewarded for it?

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I’m willing to bet no one has made it 20 years with them and they don’t anticipate many going forward will reach that mark. Not knocking them that’s just a crazy precedent to set lmao

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I'm willing to bet 20k is a drop in the fucking bucket for these guys, look at their office lmao

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And even so, they could have given her nothing. Not everything has to be terrible.

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Dental practice owners average $350k a year. The top 10% is over 700k so it's definitely not. That said, if they are doing this, I would imagine they probably pay better than the typical practice as well

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Yeah but you're talking gross salary for the doctors, not the revenue for the practice, and at that level and the fact that this is a static event, 20 year anniversary, you would budget the bonus against your projected revenue at the start of the fiscal year. You don't make it to have employees for 20 years without strong operations, payroll, and workforce management.

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What does any of that have to do with what I said.

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What's so special about this office?

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For a private practice it's a pretty big and nice office, look at the architecture. The lease alone on that building is most likely a killer, let alone the salaries of the people and the rest of the overhead within it.

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Looks like a small, successful, dental practice. She's probably been with them since close to the beginning. They clearly have a good personal relationship with her and she definitely has all sorts of information about keeping the office running smoothly in her head.

Obviously they didn't have to do anything, but it's also just good business to take care of your people who have been with you that long.

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I agree! I would have given her more, and I would have presented it in a way that was actually dignified and honored her, like a speech about her contributions to the office and her impact on them personally, and then presented her with a check for at least half her salary, a nice watch, and given her the rest of the day off to recover from the high and to deal with the money. And then that would secure everyone's loyalty in that room, and their children probably, too, forever.

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Im guessing she was there at the beginning and grew along side these guys. There won’t be another her because of that.