xmas bonus

[jobob]

Not money, but my company is taking us all to see Cirque du Soleil next week.

[OakLeaf]

Don't give your kid's teachers knickknacks. Unless you know the teachers' adult children really like that stuff.

Fixed it for ya.


We get a small bonus at the gym every year. AFAIK everyone gets the same amount, which means it's a pretty generous amount in proportion to the number of hours we instructors work.

[ny biker]

I've never gotten a "Christmas" bonus. But most of the companies I've worked for have had an annual bonus program, assuming they had a profitable year. At my current job I generally get about $500, give or take. It's a big company and they have a formula for determining bonuses that has nothing to do with merit. When I worked in NYC I got thousands, but that was with a small company that was rewarding me for hard work.

[Pedal Wench]

In good times, yeah, but lately nope. Paycuts and no raises in eons, so this year, I'm considering my paycheck a bonus.

[MomOnBike]

We often get on at the rehab hospital I work at - the budget allowing, of course. For those of us who work Christmas, there is a free meal, if you get to the cafeteria in time.

DH's company often gives a fairly generous (to our little minds) bonus this time of year, again depending on how well they've done.

So yes, we can get bonuses, but we don't budget around them.

[badger]

Nope. Working for the state we get zero bonuses...and this year I'm expecting furlough days with a side threat of layoffs.

that's interesting. I work on a municipal level, and we're facing some huge budget shortfall resulting in 150+ layoffs. Furlough days were brought up ever so briefly but they're going straight for layoffs. Which is really bizarre because all the municipalities around here are under the same contract and my city seems to be the only one facing these Draconian cuts.

So my bonus this year is that I still have a job.

[smilingcat]

Xmas or year end bonus what's that??? Hahahaha.... grrrr.

TMI so deleted. nope Nada.

[Pax]

So my bonus this year is that I still have a job.

Agree 100%.

[ACG]

I have been given bonuses depending on where I work.

I am so so fortunate that I am working for a company that is really busy and doing well financially.

[ny biker]

I am so so fortunate that I am working for a company that is really busy and doing well financially.

Me too. Last year was the best year to date for the division I work for, and this year is better. Despite the fact that the parent company went bankrupt and is in the process of selling us off.

[GLC1968]

Nope, never. I've worked for 7 major corporations since I graduated from college and not one of them had a Christmas bonus policy.

One company I worked for did give us what we called 'boxing day' where we received an additional 35% off our purchases (over and above our normal employee discount of 50%). This meant that we were getting a 67.5% discount for one day. It made shopping for Christmas presents REALLY easy! ;-)

[limewave]

Our Christmas bonus is a $25 gift card to our company-owned bookstore and we get out an hour early on Christmas eve but we get paid for the full day

DH gets $150 in grocery store gift cards. He used to get several giant meat trays which we never ate. Finally one year, when asked what meat trays he would like, he asked if he could just get a gift card instead. We are so much happier now.

[shootingstar]

that's interesting. I work on a municipal level, and we're facing some huge budget shortfall resulting in 150+ layoffs. Furlough days were brought up ever so briefly but they're going straight for layoffs. Which is really bizarre because all the municipalities around here are under the same contract and my city seems to be the only one facing these Draconian cuts.

So my bonus this year is that I still have a job.

Methinks City of Vancouver delivers all sorts of programs for ie. social housing, and many other social services etc. on a scale that City of Richmond, Burnaby, etc. do not undertake to same extent at this time, because their population size and demographics is different. Also City of Vancouver is paying for the friggin' overspending on building of Olympic athletes' village (which will be turned into private luxury condos and landscaping after the Games. This is truly wrong for the end result of spending taxpayers' money...)

[badger]

they swear up and down that no Olympic overruns are a burden to the city, but who are they kidding? In the end we all pay.

[tc1]

Another public employee here. So of course no bonus. I am not complaining, pay is good, we're not talking about major layoffs yet. We are doing furloughs, but not my group.

When I worked for a company that has since gone out of business, they used to give us a turkey every year. And working for minimum wage, I was glad to get it.