Are you receiving a holiday bonus from your employer?

[just_mills]

I do indeed, but I'm not sure how much!

 

[phoneguy2]

I get a monthly performance bonus (up to a little over 1G) and I've been told we get a Christmas bonus but I don't know how much or if I will at all since I've only been with this company for a little over two months. The Christmas bonus is given out at the company party which is this Thursday, so I will know soon enough.

 

[starlight70]

My colleagues and I are still trying to recover from the shock that we are asked to attend the company's dinner on Dec 23 - compulsory, and we are also asked to pay for our own dinner - more than $50 per person. Top that.

 

[RationalLunacy]

We were just told that next year's bonus will be paid in myrrh.

 

[Snickers52]

My company gives a $1250.00 Xmas bonus to all non-exempt (hourly) employees who have at least 1 year of service (employees with under a year service receive $800.00). Exempt (salaried) employees who earn under a certain amount also receive the same bonus. Department and division heads used to also receive a Xmas bonus of $3000.00, but a few years ago several of us made the case that if the payments for department and division heads were curtailed, the company could give the lower paid employees a bigger bonus and especially since the department and division heads receive our quarterly performance bonuses at approximately the same time anyway and these bonuses are 5 figures in many cases. We felt it rather piggish and double-dipping, and cutting our payments enabled the company to increase the hourly employees bonuses significanly.

One benefit of getting this policy changed was that it rooted out the managers who's attitudes were not pro employee, but rather pro themselves. I said to my boss "one thing's for sure, we'll see who the good guys are and who the bad guys are over this". It was amazing that most of the jerks who complained the loudest over this policy change were people who made incredible sums of money and who enjoyed HUGE quarterly performance bonuses. $3000.00 was nothing to them. The other benefit was that we were able to in time, how shall I say it, "disengage" ourselves of many of these creeps, and it was in great part based on how they showed their true colors over Xmas bonuses for their lower paid subordinates vs undue enrichment of themselves.

We have over 50,000 employees worldwide in our various divisions with the lion's share of them being hourly employees so the company really lays out a bundle on Xmas bonuses.

 

[sonny10305]

Yup, every year we get one weeks salary

 

[nwdavis]

My colleagues and I are still trying to recover from the shock that we are asked to attend the company's dinner on Dec 23 - compulsory, and we are also asked to pay for our own dinner - more than $50 per person. Top that.

If its a requirement that you attend they should pay for it. If they won't pay for it, I would attend but not eat anything. In fact I would bring my own food to the event in protest. But I can top that, I work for one of the fortune 500 companies and they don't even have a holiday party of any kind. IN order to avoid the issue of who's holiday to celebrate they just did away with it altogether.

 

[Kirbster]

I work for a non-profit, and each year we get a bonus equivalent to 1.5% of our annual salary, which worked out to be just under $800 for me this year.