
Spanx employees given $10,000 and two first-class plane tickets
CNN
The chief executive and founder of shapewear company Spanx has surprised employees with two first-class plane tickets and $10,000 each to celebrate the company's $1.2 billion deal with Blackstone.
Spanx founder Sara Blakely surprised employees with the news, she revealed in a post on her verified Instagram account Friday.
In the video, Blakely spun a globe, before revealing that she had bought each of her employees two first-class plane tickets to anywhere in the world.

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