I just got my Christmas bonus from my job. I got 4 $100 gift cards and 1 $50 gift card. Every year they give us gift cards instead of cash. This is the 3rd year I've gotten gift cards. I'm tempted to just walk into a bad neighborhood and try to trade them for cash. $0.90 cents on the dollar. $0.80 cents on the dollar. Just to get it over with so I can quickly spend my bonus. Me and my coworker joke that they give us gift cards to make it difficult for people to buy drugs and "pay girls".

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I love getting gift cards. At least they're not taxed

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Not true. It’s worked into your compensation as taxable income without payout. So taxes are collected prior/after in most cases. Lol

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They give you gift cards so you get more money in that you don’t get taxed.

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Wait - Girls don't take gift cards anymore?

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Gotta up your negotiating skills. But soooo inappropriate to joke. Sigh.

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Gift cards are usually tax free for the company (at least in my country, companies can give up to €1000 in gift cards tax free)
If you have it as pre paid debit cards, call your electricity/heating/internet provider and ask to credit your account, use the gift cards. It may not sound as fun but that's money directly back into your pocket.

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Well at least is something in all the places I have worked I never received anything. Just overtime 😩

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Join us. We don’t have Christmas bonuses so you won’t feel cheated by gift cards.

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@VP2 that's understandable. I used to work for a startup that serviced other startups. I didn't learn what a startup actually was until years after I stopped working for them. A startup is a company that's sole objective is to get purchased by a larger company like Google or Microsoft. Not to be a long term term. The one I worked at the CEO and President of the company were GF & BF.

Correction. They are pre loaded ATM debit cards.

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They could have give people 1 preloaded debit card with the full amount instead of multiple debit cards.

I live and work in San Francisco California. According to my coworker who is born and raised in SF the Mission district is where you go to pay girls cash for intimacy. We were trying to imagine meeting up with a girl from the Mission district in a hotel room and then calling the back of each debit card on our phones loud speaker to prove to that there is money on the prepaid gift ATM debit cards before any intimacy happens. That would be funny. I have to verify 5 cards.

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^^^We are joking around of course. My coworker is loading his bonus into his Amazon account. I'm using it to pay my taxes that I owe from the previous year.

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Gift cards need to be taxed via payroll anyway.

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Check Into Cash will give you cash for gift cards

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Get a square account and charge them right into your bank account, there’s a small usage fee of a couple bucks.

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Thought I read somewhere you could add a gift card to Venmo. or maybe Paypal? And then just deposit it from there.

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Do you work at Dollar Tree? So weird...

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I'll buy em 80 cents on the dollar lmao

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… some people will complain about anything…

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“…some people will complain about anything…” VP2 complained…

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Must be nice to get gift cards, lots of us get nothing! Nada! Zero dinero! Zilch lol

Feel free to pass it on this way if you won’t want it

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Your position sounds very high up. Definitely higher up than what I do. I'm surprised to hear that you didn't get a Christmas bonus.

Are you really complaining about the form of your bonus? I got rocks.

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I was thinking about mailing people coal. There is a website where you can anonymously pay Bitcoin and they mail poop wrapped in plastic to whoever you want them to mail it to. I wanted to mail coal and poop to some of my coworkers. I figured they will know it's me even if I do it anonymously. I'm semi joking semi serious.

I would hope they give you an option for what it is for if it isn’t a Visa Gift Card. If you gave me a gift card for a specific store and I don’t shop there I would be annoyed and looking to have someone buy it off me or find a place like Check Into Cash to convert it into cash. And even more annoyed because I wouldn’t be getting the full bonus because it costs you get a business to convert it to cash.

There’s a website where ppl sell their gift cards. Forgot what it’s called..

Sell em on eBay. I’ve done it before. Maybe you’ll keep 85% of the value and can sell them in 1 hour

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