Has anyone here come up against a boss (running own small company) who incentivises staff with weekend breaks, holidays etc? Sounds very generous until you realise they come at a price, lunch breaks are simply not allowed.
Lunch is paid for or subsidised but eaten on site in around 15 minutes. She runs the office with a fist of iron and there is no HR department or anyone to complain to if things get difficult or unprofessional. It's really about controlling the staff and making them beholden to her.
What I find curious is she offers tickets to musicals and overnight accommodation to parents. It's assumed that our parents will be awed, humbled and delighted with the show chosen by her and hotel. The assumption is that most of our parents wouldn't be able to afford these things, or be high brow enough to be able to choose a suitably classy musical on their own :). When my mother was offered such a treat she politely declined (musicals not her thing at all!) and quite frankly she found it odd and patronising. I overheard one young girl colleague, whose mother accepted the musical incentive saying about how grateful she and her mother were in a fawning way.
The boss is trying to join the upper echelons of society, she's joined a private bank and the cheque book is mentioned and comes out at every opportunity. She thinks she's lady of the manor, but makes all sorts of malapropisms which are very amusing. When her bloods up she's anything but amusing, downright nasty actually and I see this situation getting worse before it gets any better. She's recently come into money so this may settle down in time. She's offended my mother turned down her incentive and has suggested maybe she's not very cultured...? What to say and do, apart from looking for another job. Wondered if others had come across similar situations and bosses and how they fared.