No Christmas Bonus this year...

[OKDem08]

First year it was absolutely nothing. What about you?

[Phlem]

1. No full time job this year.

Any body else?

-p

[yeoman6987]

31. Bonus

We normally get our bonus' in August, but this year ZERO bonus' were given. Even upper management were given the big ZERO in bonus'.

[winter is coming]

2. No job. n/t

[geomon666]

3. Could be worse

[CTyankee]

4. I always worked in nonprofits so I never got a bonus.

Now that I'm retired I have decided that in terms of priority anyone who does work directly for me, such as my house helper, should get priority, right after my family members, for a holiday present. I need and depend on their help, now that my husband and I are older and really need the help we get.

[daleanime]

5. Christmas Bonus?

What's that?

[rsmith6621]

6. What Is a Christmas Bonus??

Last year mine came late in the form of a termination/layoff.

[lonestarnot]

7. Just the twismas bogus, tennis balls to the face.

[freshwest]

8. Never got a bonus. Union contract, annual COLA for all workers, period. Only management got them. nt

[HughBeaumont]

9. I've never in my life received a "bonus" of any kind.

I always thought that was an antiquated artifact from when capitalism wasn't the Re-Branded Feudalism it is now . . . or something reserved exclusively for 1%ers.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

10. Our company has totally screwed with the bonus program

so that somehow, the company is going like gangbusters and posting profits like never before, but somehow, we don't get our bonuses!

sP

[Skeletor]

11. 30 dollar gift card...

to a local grocery store. Not complaining, first company to give me any type of bonus.

[hobbit709]

12. Until I retired the only bonus I got was to still have the job.

[sweetapogee]

13. We had a meeting yesterday

Everyone in the company is getting one week pay for a Christmas bonus. We also have a temp. employee who is being put on as a permanent FT employee.

[meaculpa2011]

14. I've had union jobs...

and non-union jobs and always received a Christmas bonus. Usually one week's pay, sometimes more.

Of course, I haven't had a real job since 1981.

My daughter has been in a new job since August and she got 1/2 week's pay.

[99Forever]

15. As of next Monday...

... I go from temp agency status to actual employee at almost full time and a dollar more an hour. (35 hrs week)

And a turkey.

At age 60 after 4 years without a job at all, seems a very good bonus to me.

[KentuckyWoman]

16. A couple of my new hires were out of work a long time

I came up with some lame excuse to pay them in advance as independent contractors helping out before we open on Jan 1. A stupid business decision on paper but I can sleep.

[Le Taz Hot]

20. What you send out into the cosmos

will come back to you. I've seen it happen too many times.

[Cresent City Kid]

17. I am relatively lucky

I have a job and will get a modest bonus. It would be a little bigger, but my boss buys a flat screen TV with some of the potential bonus money and gives each employee one chance of winning it in a drawing at the Christmas party, which devolves into a greed fest. I don't have to attend the party to get the bonus, but I would need to make arrangements to get it at another time.

What really sucks is that everyone has to save as much vacation time as possible for the end of the year because the shop is closed from Christmas Eve until Jan 2nd. New employees with 3-5 days of vacation per year are pretty much screwed.

[Le Taz Hot]

18. I work for the gummit.

What is this Christmas bonus of which you speak?

[a kennedy]

19. I was a public employee, and I NEVER got a bonus.

But, I knew that when I accepted the job. Happy Holidays.

[FatBuddy]

21. two weeks year end paid vacation

and about 2500 bucks.

[LeftinOH]

22. I thought "Christmas bonus" was a myth - like Bigfoot.

There are performance-based bonuses, which I have had. But a seasonal one? Never had such a thing.

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. 1 1/2 weeks pay.

[bluedigger]

24. $15 corporate gift card.

I figure their cost at about half that since I can only use it at our stores. So a little less than one hour's pay out of their pockets.

I also got a coupon for a $15 turkey or ham for Thanksgiving.

I have rarely gotten any kind of bonus. I remember one time where we all chipped in $10 for the owner of a store I worked at. He in turn gave us each $20. Stupid system.

[Demo_Chris]

25. Wait... you mean Christmas bonuses are an actual thing? I thought they were some Hollywood myth. nt

[mucifer]

26. my company puts a little extra in our 401k if we have a decent year. That is our bonus.

We are a small non profit hospice. CEOs and CNAs make the same bonuses and PTO etc. The sequester cut what medicare pays us so we have to wait and see if any bonus to our 401k goes through.

[Orrex]

27. My Christmas bonus is knowing I only have 7 more days until my vacation allotment renews

[NCTraveler]

28. I gave each employee at minimum a weeks extra pay.

Some got much more. I gave it to them in the first week of December to lessen their holiday stress. I have an amazing group of people working with me every day. It is not the only bonus they get during the year.

[srican69]

29. I am a consultant and get paid on the clock ..

havent seen a bonus in years

[LWolf]

30. I got a "bonus."

I'd give it back in a heartbeat if we could do away with the current ed deforms that led to that "bonus."

I got my bonus for my students' standardized test scores. It's a required part of a federal grant my district took, selling our professional ethics down the river for cash in strapped times.

I don't support high stakes testing of any kind. I don't support the use of test scores to threaten and browbeat teachers or students, or to narrow curriculum, or to politically control public education.

My bonus will: 1. Pay for the plumbing repairs necessary when temperatures plunged to -17 recently. 2. Donate to the pool that our certified staff will form to voluntarily share with classified, since the grant doesn't recognize the work of support staff. 3. Go to a couple of local organizations trying to get the homeless and other poor and at-risk people through the winter.

[abelenkpe]

32. My job was offshored this year

No comparable jobs left in the city. So, could be worse.

[wercal]

33. We have been very lucky

Bonus was around 6 weeks pay.

We are an ESOP, which I highly recommend.

[Tracer]

34. $12,000.

That was my daughter's bonus last year.

This year will no doubt be the same or larger.

[cleanhippie]

35. Do you have a reason as to why you didn't receive one this year?

[Capt. Obvious]

36. Membership to the Jelly Of The Month Club

Better than nothing I suppose.

[ellie]

37. Nothing!

I have been here for 14 years and this is the first year I have received nothing. I know the company is doing well, too. My teabagger co-worker was complaining about the company hoarding cash.

[UncleYoder]

38. I'm almost embarrassed to admit.

Yes, I got a bonus.
6 weeks pay.
Plus we all got profit sharing checks in January and July last year.
There are good companies out there to work for.
Mine is run by a Japanese company.

[OKDem08]

39. What type of business?

[UncleYoder]

41. Cars

and the logistics that support the manufacturing of.

[NightWatcher]

40. the past 7 years yes, this year nothing. No notice ahead of time either way

We were not counting on it, but damned if I couldn't send Cousin Eddie after the boss....

[SoCalDem]

42. dwindling, but my husband gets $4k this year (in 2007 it was $30K)

2008...20K
2009..10K
2010..8K
2011 & 12 it was 6K

But then his company is a union company (my husband is mgmt..not union)..and they rarely lay any of their staff off,,,,even in lean times.

Bonuses are strictly based on profit...and length of service. The company gives everyone a list of all the jobs done and the profits, so when bonuses are "light", they know why..

We are happy with anything extra...and everyone also gets some cash in with the xmas card (usually $500-1000) and $100 gift cards from a supermarket chain

[HereSince1628]

43. I never had a job which provided bonuses to people like me at christmas

I did have a job that gave annual bonuses in lieu of raises to avoid increases in benefits chained to raises.

It seems that they may have missed an opportunity to look charitable at the solstice.

[fizzgig]

44. don't know yet if we're getting one

it's been a hundred bucks in the past. the first few years it was included in my paycheck, so it was taxed. the last few years it's been cash.

my last job was for a giant media company and we got $25 walmart gift cards. they were cheap assholes.

[cbdo2007]

45. 3-10% for everyone at my company

[1000words]

46. Likely getting Scrooged this year, too.

Several have made inquiries, only to be told it is "pending approval."

We all know how that usually goes ...