What does your company give you for Xmas

[rockyroad]

DH and I each get nothing.
Well, he gets a paid day off.
And I get a paid day off too, but I may be laid off next week.
If I don't work the day before or the day after the holiday, then no holiday pay.

And about the boss giving gifts, DH has several folks working under him.
If they are expecting DH to get them gifts out of his pocket, then they will be disappointed.
I would love to gift his guys with something nice, but it is financially impossible.
DH and I are not even exchanging gifts this year.
The kids are getting way less than they ever have in the past.

 

[disney67]

I work for a convience store that is a drive thru . we are down to 44 stores and they usually give us a 15.00 gc to king kullen but nothing this year .

 

[ma2jr]

Legal Holidays off and chocolates

 

[Conway733]

We don't get anything. And we were just notified no raises again this year...and increased insurance costs. Oh well, at least I have a job, I suppose.

 

[sk!mom]

teacher here...we get nothing. Dh works for a National nonprofit and gets nothing, as well.

 

[Inigo]

DH is a HS teacher, so some kids bring him small gifts, such as candy or cookies. (We wouldn't feel comfortable getting something worth more than just a couple dollars. It amazes me to read that people are giving/bribing teachers with gifts of between $20-$100. That just strikes me as too extravagant.)

The school and corporation gives him nothing, although he is off from 12/19 until 1/4, so I guess that's a gift. He doesn't give his principals or other administrative staff presents, so no problem with them not giving gifts.

I'm a probation officer, so I am unable to accept any gifts from clients. Some of the attorneys send tinned cookies to the Courts, other attorneys, and to the department, and the Court allows us to accept those. We also get tinned cookies from service providers we use. One of the residential centers sends the juvenile officers CDs every year of Christmas music. We love those CDs!

As for our department, we get Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Day off with pay, and, if we work on New Year's Eve, we leave at lunch and get the afternoon off with pay. Our chief allows us to work a skeleton crew around the holidays, with one person covering each sub-department each day, but we have to use comp time or vacation days to cover. I save my one personal day and then use several of my comp time days to cover most of the time off. I only have to work 1 1/2 days over the next two weeks, although I will probably be in there sporadically if the police or clients need me. Plus the police have my phone number, so I may get called late at night or on the weekends (but that happens year round.)

We have a Christmas party paid by the department every year. Yesterday, we ate at the State Park Inn in our county. We played Christmas-y games, and did a dirty Santa gift exchange. The best part is the gift exchange. 1/3 the $5 gifts are nice, 1/3 are odd, and 1/3 are completely wonderfully hilarious. The best gift this year: the enema box that had a $5 gift card hidden inside. Thank goodness someone finally threw the s'more maker away! It returned for 4 years in a row!!!! No one wanted it.

Yesterday was also my supervisor's birthday, so we got to have a little fun with that too. We're more like a fun sorta dysfunctional but still loving family than just a bunch of co-workers. I'm sure his wife was puzzled when he brought some of his "gifts" home after the party.


ETA: I almost forgot the present I feel like I got from DH's school corporation on Friday morning. The school had an expulsion hearing for a student, and the expulsion examiner decided to allow the student to return to school in January under an alternative to expulsion. He has conditions to meet to stay in school, but I know he can do it. He was stupid and went along with some others who did something really stupid, but his testimony at the hearing, combined with my testimony that he has been an excellent probation client until this incident and with the testimony of the mentor I arranged for him, convinced the examiner to give him another chance! Yeah!

 

[ptmmg]

ok I didn't read through all the responses but I guess my dh is in the minority. He got a $3000 bonus after taxes it came down to $2300.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

We have a company party every year.

 

[mom2val]

DH's company has a party and he gets 1 day holiday pay.

 

[cole6179]

My dh is a plumber. The company he works for usually gives a weeks pay. This year it was cut in half. Trying to be grateful for the job he has managed to keep and everything else we have, but it's still a bummer.

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

My employer doesn't have a company-wide holiday gift policy. Many employees get nothing. Most local stations will have parties of some sort. In my own department, we get performance-based bonuses and generous gift cards from the head of the division.

 

[A Mickeyfan]

I work for the school district (in a school) & my husband works for the City.. we each got nothing.. not even a card....and people think that government employees get everything.. big joke.. we get our salaries frozen for 3 years!!! but we are working... so that is how we must look at it...

 

[momxx5]

I have not had a chance to read all the posts yet, but looking forward to it.

I just wanted to add, that surprisingly to me I recieved a gift.

I have just started working in child nutrition.....school cafeteria. I was assigned to a different school effective this past Monday. I am so blessed because it is so much better than the school that I was at. (elementary now versus high school - including better hours). This school is were my daughter is in 2nd grade.

So, yesterday, our last day for the holiday break the principal was handing out gifts. I recieved a beautiful fleece throw, it is red, embroidered in green with out school name and 2009/2010 with holly in between the dates.

I was so touched and surprised to recieve the gift. I am praying that this job will become permanent (right now position open but freeze on hiring so technically using subs).

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

I work for a hospital, we get the day off and a holiday luncheon. DH is a teacher, he gets nothing. In fact he is "required" to donate $40 into a pot so that the principle, vp, yard duties and secretaries can have nice gifts. I say "required" because they pretty much harass him until he gives in and does it.

 

[MickeyMouth]

I am an RN at a hospital and the bonus this year was $1300 hospital wide for all full time employees and 1/2 of that for part time.

 

[livie1205]

They're called gifts, not expecteds! Looks like a bunch of (not all) ungrateful employees here. You should be thankful for your job, your luncheon, your card, your little bit of money that you received as a gift.

It's nice if you do get a little something, or a little time on the company clock to go to a luncheon or a little party that someone paid for or a little gift card or anything at all, but to expect it, to take it and then to complain about it is just wrong....and not in the Christmas spirit at all!

geez chill out...the OP JUST ASKED A QUESTION...I am sure they are happy to have jobs.

 

[mamalle]

Im very fortunate for what I receive. I work 3 different jobs in the health care field and received something from each employer:
$100 gift card
$25 grocery gift card
and a christmas bonus from the other. It came in handy since our condensation pump broke in our air conditioning unit and hubby broke the toilet seat. I even had some left over for some christmas shopping today.

I was pleasantly surprised and feel blessed..

 

[HoosierMomOf5]

My dh (who's been working 12 hour days...six days/ week for longer than I can remember) woke me up when he got home at 4:00 (!!) this morning to share the news of his $1800 bonus. That's about $1400 more than we expected. He was like a giddy little school kid when he jumped on the bed asked, "Honey, HONEY! Can I have a PS3 now?!"
"Go for it, Dear, you've more than earned it. Now, would you please remove your dirty, workboot-clad feet from the bed"

 

[thebeesknees]

At DH's last job, there was a wonderful holiday party for all the families to attend, complete with a children's room with gingerbread houses to decorate, puppet shows, Build-A-Bear, etc. Oh, and they would get a $500 GC to use with any of their vendors. Totally extravagant, and DH (who worked in accounting and saw the bills afterward) often remarked that he wished they'd put that money toward bonuses for the employees, instead. The company went belly-up this year, so no more parties, I guess.

Now, DH works for the state government, and there will be no holiday bonus or party. I'm going to miss those old days, but I am just so glad he has a job right now that it really doesn't matter!

 

[smcabee]

My hospital gives us $50.00 per year of service if we have been good little nurses for xmas. If you had disciplinary action for being a bad nurse you get nothing.