Holiday bonus question

[Judy in Texas]

Nobody gets holiday bonuses. Last year the boss had tins of cookies delivered to our homes. Yearly bonuses are reserved for higher management. Nothing trickles down to the rank and file.

 

[Bluestars]

Our company gives out bonuses every year. Even if sales are down, people don't get a bonus less than the one they got the year before unless their performance was horrible, which rarely happens. The bonuses are based on years of service, position, and performance. They start at $100 and go up from there.

 

[mickeymedic]

Most jobs I've worked didn't give Christmas bonuses. Where I work now, we get our choice of a Turkey or a family-sized Veggie Lasagna. At one job one year I did get $300. That totally rocked!!! And was completely unexpected.

 

[3boymthr]

We get bupkis. Very large company. Officers get bonuses. Sales people get bonuses. Admin and support who push all the paper, fix all the sysetms, make everything else possible? Nothing but higher medical premiums next year and smaller 401K contributions.

Not even a Jelly of the Month Club.

What you mean not enough for a pool? I love that movie. We just watched it last weekend.

DH gets a Turkey at Thanksgiving (yes companies still do that ) He got $500 yesterday which after taxes was $334.

But at his first co he got $100 for every year he had been there - in cash - his boss would hand him a wad of $10's and $20s - I kid you not at the company Christmas party. Seriously have you ever seen $1,000 worth of $10's and $20s - that's a thick stack of bills. At that time he made $13/hr. Now he makes $29.50/hr.

Last year I got a $200 visa GC and I make $35/hr and the receptionist at our office got the same bonus so really there's absolutely no rhyme or reason to it relative to salary. My prior two companies there were no bonuses related to the holidays though I did get an incentive bonus quarterly (no, I'm not in sales).

 

[Buckalew11]

DH got an unexpected $500 bonus this year. It is a new job, since June.

My clients give me gifts and money for christmas so that is my bonus.

 

[dislal]

No bonus here

 

[JerseyJanice]

No bonus per se, but I do get half of my annual buy-out ($6,000) for not taking their medical insurance for myself and my family. My husband earns insurance with his job, so we don't need theirs too and $3K even after taxes is pretty sweet to take home this time of year.