Gookin Blasts ‘Recognition’ Spending

Still, former city council candidate Dan Gookin thinks spending $4,500 on city employee recognition shows the mayor and council are out of touch with their constituents.  “I don’t think anyone on the Coeur d’Alene city council stands up for the taxpayer.  No one has ever said ‘The folks out there are hurting, and what can we do?  They’ve had to cut back, they’ve had to deal with less, what can we do to deal with less?’  Now granted, their (city employees) unions took a zero percent, they didn’t give anyone a COLA (cost of living adjustment).  But yet they’re still wasting money.  The stuff they pay for that they don’t have to is just ridiculous”/ Jay Howell , Idaho Family Forum. More here .

Question: Does you business or company spend much money in efforts to recognize good work by employees?