During peak we had an incentive program where each week, two people would be "randomly" selected to win $500 each. The stipulation was that they had to show up on time each day. That's IT. It was supposed to go on for eight weeks during Nov and Dec.
Well, the first week rolls around, and the two winners are two of the biggest brown-nosers in the hub. There's no way that these guys could have been "randomly" selected. The next week, another set of suck-ups were chosen. I think they discontinued the program after that.
Also, we haven't had employee of the month in my building for about six months. In November they were going to start it up again, but they didn't. I actually went into the office for something and on one of the white boards there was "EoM list", and my name was up there for my work area. A friend of mine knew about it and congratulated me early because he wouldn't be there the day they handed out the awards. Well, that day rolls around, no awards. He asked me about it a couple weeks later (assuming I had gotten it) and I told him we never received anything. He went to the FT supe and asked about it, and he said since they never did the little ceremony thing, they didn't owe me my $10 gift card. Whatever. I can see how much they care anymore.