Via The Big Lead comes the most delicious, juicy, crunchiest pullquote from Rick Maese’s recent Washington Post article about Redskins owner Dan Snyder (emphasis ours):
Redskins employee holiday bonus: bags of apples
Dan Snyder doesn’t have that “WORLD’S GREATEST BOSS” mug for nothing.
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So let’s thing of some other worst things a millionaire can give employees in lieu of a holiday bonus:
- 1988 Donruss Eric Show baseball card wrapped around busted cassette tape of Duran Duran’s “Big Thing” album (no case)
- Handwritten note reading “you smell”
- Any book written by Donald Trump
- Bag of road apples
- Opinions about Space Jam
- Eat This, Not That
- Mimeographed note reading “you smell”
- Good & Plenty
Got any more terrible holiday bonus suggestions? Let’s hear them in the comments below!
(h/t to Jeremy Mauss)
