I used to work in an off-license, not the most demanding of jobs i’ll grant you. we were poorly paid, and even full time staff were put on 39 hour contracts to save the company from paying us all that extra stuff like pensions, health and medical expenses.

Anyway, they always had these odd bonus schemes, most of them weren’t obtainable as they would set a target, put the item on promotion, and expect you to sell 6 times the usual amount to get close to the bonus system.

before that though they had a system where you got points based on the amount of stuff that you sold as an individual. and after a while you could select something in exchange from a catalogue. you would have thought that we would have known about it, you know from the monthly statements that we recieved at the shop.

we’ll in the end the changed the system and everyone was going to use there points until they were told that the boss had used them all and brought her sister a really nice stereo system with our points. that’s nice, what did we get???? yep nothing.”