28 million in bonuses! And no, it’s not one of them stories about greedy CEOs. It’s about a company that a kid started by mowing lawns 40 years ago, A company that’s so big now that the CEO Craig Rupert was able to give every employee, that has been with them at least a year, a Christmas bonus of $7,000 to $200,000 adding up to $28 million. Mr. Rupert said this about the extraordinary gifts, “This bonus is money that is well-deserved and a way for us to acknowledge the value of our teams’ contributions and the essential role that they will play in our company’s future.”
Today, the company is in 8 states as well as the District Of Columbia.
I mowed lawns when I was a kid. I had competition from this other boy and his mean older sister. One day he wasn’t watching and ran over his own foot. That took him and his scheming sis out of business for the summer. I’m not happy it happened, but I took over his turf when it did.
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