What does your company give you for Xmas

[mindyd]

I only work for ChaCha but my husband company is very good to us. Thanksgiving they send us a smoked turkey. Christmas we get a 20 percent bonus of Salary plus, additional money for this other program and then a Christmas Party and a hotel room. Then his boss bought him a 25.00 gift certificate for Home Depot, Lindor Truffles and an lottery ticket.

 

[Mattsmommy]

Nothing! If you have to work on christmas, you get holiday pay which is double pay for the day.

 

[lisaross]

i am VERY FORTUNATE..i work for a lawyer..got the job at the beginning of this year so i'm not even working for him 1 year and i got $500.00!! i was really surprised, he is one of the niceest person i know..always nice, generous - also had 2 office lunches..

my husband gets a breakfast!

 

[dex08]

We get nothing from the company except a pat on the back for a job well done.

My workgroup is spread across the country and we all work remotely from home so we don't have a holiday party or luncheon. We usually collect and ship a gift to our boss and he usually ships each of us a gift, but this year we took up collections and donated to a charitable cause instead.

 

[sherry7]

I work for one of the largest telecom companies in the world, and I get diddly...unless you count getting Christmas Day off paid, which is thanks to our union contract. We had our Holiday lunch at work this week, and paid for it out of our own pockets, which we do every year.

My company is very politically correct. If you acknowledge Christmas, you would also have to acknowledge Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramaddan, etc, etc. So, they don't acknowledge any of them, and probably save a ton of money in the process. We did have an office meeting this week, and were given a lunch box and a golf umbrella...but management is VERY careful to never mention the word Christmas.

On the other hand, DH works for a highway construction company with about 150 employees. They have a really nice Christmas party for the guys and their wives/girlfriends. It was last weekend and they had a very good catered meal (filet of beef, ham, romano chicken, several side dishes, appetizer table, chocolate fountain and dessert table, along with an open bar). There was a DJ and dancing, and they drew numbers for a 50" flat screen TV and $1500 in cash prizes. Of course we weren't lucky enough to win anything, but all of the guys got a nice pullover fleece with the company logo and a coffee cup. It seems like the smaller, family-owned companies tend to do more for Christmas than the huge corporations.

Like some other people said though, I'm just happy to have a good-paying, relatively stable job. If you don't expect anything from your employer but a paycheck, that saves any disappointment.

 

[lisajl]

My DH-nothing--but that is okay-he has a job and that is more than some people have right now.

Me-I work for a veterinarian and we all went to lunch one day and exchanged gifts. I think I will get a bonus of $50. That is what we usually get in our last paycheck of the year. If I don't-no biggie. He is the best vet I have ever worked for and he gives us a break on the care of our own pets.

 

[debf]

I work at a doctors office. We have a nice holiday party at a restaurant. We get a Christmas bonus(up to $500.) and I got a Target gift card for $50. Not too bad. I am very thankful for what I get. Dh has a holiday party at a restaurant.

 

[snowy76]

After requiring DH to take a two-week furlough this year, his company just had a catered holiday party for the staff at a local restaurant. Guess times have improved. They also got a $20 gift card for a grocery store. A few years ago they were getting bonuses in the hundreds.

 

[n2mm]

My boss gave me a half day off with pay! That was a real treat and unexpected!

 

[donac]

I teach in a high school and we get nothing or very little. And being a high school teacher we rarely get anything from the students. Dh gets some things from his 7th grader but nothing like grammer school teachers get.

 

[GinCar]

No pay for Holiday days off. (That is a budget killer.)

We got a card and a candy cane.

 

[Planogirl]

Nothing unless you count the furlough days we've had. And there's of course the constant threat of losing your job too.

Let's just say that I'm convinced that Scrooge is hiding somewhere in the corporate office.

 

[fun4me]

Dh works as a tech for a dealership. They always get a paid day off. But every year is different for "gifts." Yesterday they catered lunch for them from some bbq place. They are supposed to received a turkey too. The last couple of years we had a choice of a turkey or ham--going to miss the ham. LOL One year they had a big dinner at a nice hotel with dancing. Other years they had bonuses, raffled gifts and other things.

I really like dh's employer. He really cares about his employees. They have quarterly meetings where they serve them breakfast and usually raffle some NICE things off. We've had company picnics for the whole families, golf tournaments and other odds and ends through out the year. Plus dh has some good benifits, good pay and a lot of paid vacation days. I am glad my dh works for such a good guy.

 

[PaulaSue]

Dh gets a meal at a nice resturant but that is prob going to be canceled because of the weather.

 

[BCV2003]

Where I work they used to have huge Christmas gala's. Last year they started to have a pot luck lunch in the office. They provide turkey and ham and everyone else brings extras in. They then donate about $21,000 to charities in the area. We get the afternoon off after the luncheon and our offices are closed between Christmas and New Year's. They gave us two extra floating holidays to use and we use two vacation days or our other floating holidays if we have not yet used them.

I think its nice that they do the donation to charities and all of the employees have a voice in who the money goes to.

I'm very happy with what we get.

 

[AllesonWonderland]

So, I've seen 'Christmas Vacation' about 8 times this month...it's on every time I turn on the TV. Can't believe I read through the entire thread and no one got a certificate to the Jelly of the Month Club!!

 

[tanyabanana]

DH works for a mid-size international company. We are going to a Christmas party at a local convention hotel today. Last year he also got a digital camera, we are not sure if he is getting an additional gift this year or not.

I work for a law enforcement agency. I am lucky that I don't have to work this year. We receive a Christmas card. Usually a local man and his family brings in a feast for everyone working. He just does it out of the kindness of his heart. I don't know if he has any idea how much that meant to us to had to work and spend the holidays away from our families.

I think the idea of a Christmas bonus or gift, while it shouldn't be expected, is a great idea if the company can swing it. I think it makes a huge difference in the employees moral. My parents owned a company and always gave the employees a nice bonus, turkey or ham, and had a party for them.

 

[jrnunzio3]

Let's see...

2 yrs ago my boss got everyone in the dept. (7 people) a small nipper of Bailey's, a can of cocoa and a bag of marshmallows that was put into separate little baggies and split between the 7 of us.

Last year it was a 5 pack of sample sized Knott's Berry farm jelly, toast that you could break your teeth on and a theater sized box of Junior Mints.

He thinks that these are the greatest gifts in the world.....Uh, No.....I know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, but give me a break... no thought...if he spends $5.00 a person that would be a lot....

It is a huge joke around the office when he delivers these "gifts"...

 

[MiniGirl]

I no longer work for the company, but my dh still does. We've never gotten anything -- not even holiday pay for working the holiday.

 

[Mom2apirate&princess]

Well, dh is home this year so that is our bonus. Last year he was in Iraq for Christmas. He gets the week of Christmas off too!

When I worked for a hospital years ago we always got gc to a grocery store.

My sister's hubby is a lawyer and they just got their bonus, just over 83K, dang! In turn he gave his secretary 5K.