Comment by seanw444
2 days ago
Probably referring to the fact that they only rewarded them with a candy bar for being a good employee. Which ignores the fact that they're already probably getting paid a decent salary to do their job, and being a good employee is already part of the job description to receive said salary. Anything extra is nice.
Yeah. The chocolate was of course a triviality, more important was the idea of encouraging people to give public thanks and the associated (extremely immaterial) karma points when thanks are due. In this culture (Finnish) we're perhaps not very good at giving praise, and even worse at receiving it, so it helps to have an established ritual for doing so. Also, I think at least one of the original goals was to mitigate the silo effect and encourage people to help their coworkers in other projects and such.