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Originally Posted by OakLeaf
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Yup, thazz me :)Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
We have the opportunity, twice a year we are eligible for a bonus based on personal goals and company sales goals. It is 3.5% salary each time, so not huge but way better than nothing. They also have 3 prizes you can win this quarter and they are really nice, our company treats us well.
LOLOLOL!! A Christmas bonus?!?! For a cop? Uh, no. I am fortunate not have had my pay CUT this year. Our city can build a new library (when we had a perfectly good old one) and host four expensive "festivals" a year, but we have not had raises or increased benefits in three years for any of us.
All that is ok, but *nothing* makes me madder than to have some person that I have pulled over for speeding or whatever use the tired old argument, "yeah, you know, my taxes pay your salary." AGH! Do they think I DON'T pay taxes?
It's not being underpaid/overworked....we chose this profession and the hours involved and knew the pay going in. It is being whacked over the head with statements like this time and time again. I actually had some guy who got out of his car the other day to yell at me. I was directing traffic in icy slippery conditions and had essentially closed the road while we pulled a car out of the ditch...it had slid in. I had been out there, wet and cold, for over an hour, my feet and hands were frozen, my lips were blue, and there was no end in sight. This doofus stomped down the hill I had trudged up and down to tell me he was missing the GAME. God give me patience. I told him to toddle back to his warm vehicle and turn the radio on because he would be there awhile. He told me that I should be flipping burgers somewhere for all the thought I had put in to how I was conducting the roadway. I lost my patience and told him if he didn't get back to his vehicle in the next 30 seconds, I was going to arrest him on a parking violation (yes, I can do this), obstructing the roadway, and impeding an investigation. This made him no end of unhappy, I will tell you. He tried to turn around on the two lane road, slid into the ditch and had to wait there...for me. He was waiting awhile. A long, long while.
So no raise. But sometimes fate (God, kharma) makes for moments that are worth more than money.
I get a nice collection of chocolates, soap, wine, Starbucks cards, Christmas decorations, and cards/pictures made by 7-8 year olds. Sweet. :)
Maybe you might end up helping a pregnant mother deliver a baby along the way ..like one of those rare featured cops. Always great stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by kenyonchris
Your students give you wine?? :eek::pQuote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
I used to get a small bonus in my previous career based on how we did for the year overall. Now I work for a univ hospital in a union. If it isn't in the contract, we aren't getting it.
It isn't in the contract. I have a job though. We laid off 100s this year due to the economy, even though during contract negotiations, we found out our bottom line was actually very healthy the whole time. Apparently, they hid it in order to negotiate lower pay and less benefits for the next 4 years. :mad:
No bonus. We used to get raises, but that hasn't happened in a while either.
The parents at my school are great though, and they make lunch for us every month, and in May every year they have a big week long celebration where everyone gets a fun little prize. One year, a local shop donated a piano, and I won it. So I can't complain...ever!
No bonus anymore, happy to have a job.
We used to have "the team award", profit sharing each year around February. That got nixed this contract. There was a small amount labeled as a signing bonus when the contract was signed. But the next three years bonus will be used to pay for our retirees benefits, otherwise the company said the retirees health care costs would go up.
Traditionally they would give us a half day off before X'mas (choice of leave early or start late) always with the admonition of "this isn't in the contract and we could stop this anytime we wanna" and last year they did :(
Don't see that starting again any time soon. But at least I have a job. :cool:
Ex fed worker here..... sure we didn't get a holiday bonus, but we had obscure paid holidays (always seemed to have twice as many as the hubby in private industsry),... and usually we'd be allowed to go at least 1/2 day early the days before Christmas and Thanksgiving
My current work place used to give out grocery gift cards, but the IRS put a nix on that.... (it has to be claimed as salary and the accounting was way to onerous to keep doing it).
There is an incentive based on a patient survey (well parents, I work in a children's hospital) that awards up to $500 bonus based on the results, but I work less than part time, so I'm not eligible as of now myself.
I get overtime for working the holiday. Sadly, it doesn't carry to Christmas Eve or the day after Christmas. Fortunately, I love my job, and every day am happy to be an employee, and not a parent in the waiting room.