Who gets a Christmas bonus???

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  • newcs
    newcs Posts: 717 Member
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    We get a really nice Christmas party (even called the Christmas party by the Jewish CEO) but we're a small company so it's easier to afford that. We get an annual bonus but it's based on performance (personal and the company) and just happens to be sorta near Christmas.
  • RubyRed8067
    RubyRed8067 Posts: 301
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    Oh I wish! We do get (throughout the year) over 3 weeks vacation in lieu of a bonus...but I'd rather have the bonus.
  • ILoveTheBrowns
    ILoveTheBrowns Posts: 661 Member
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    my first year my boss just doubled our paycheck ...i get paid every 2 weeks so that was awesome.....last year i got a 50 inch flatscreen......praying its cash this year as daddy is a little tight....and a bonus and then tax return few months later really would be nice start to 2013
  • riddellr
    riddellr Posts: 23
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    I get the day off with pay... We used to have bonuses and big parties, not any more.
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
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    I work at a physician's office and we get two bonuses. One from the hospital system and one from the medical group. The one from the medical group is $470 (before taxes), but I'm not sure how much the second bonus is. We're supposed to get them this Friday. We usually have a CHRISTmas party for our office, as well, but there was low interest in having one this year so they decided not to spend money on it. We may still have a pot luck lunch, though.

    Edit to add: I've only been working here for just over two years, and the other places I've worked didn't really do much of anything for their employees. This has been a refreshing change of pace the last couple of years.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
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    We get a bonus. It's not huge, but it's nice.

    They took away the big holiday party a few years ago. It was a very nice gig, and a lot of people are still upset about it. We are a company breaking records with profit, and yet, the party got too expensive. Ugh!
  • bugaha1
    bugaha1 Posts: 602 Member
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    Everyone in my company received our first bonus in 3 years this year. I knew we were getting the bonus in September so I had 6 weeks to think about what to do with it. Funny thing is my water service to my home broke the same day I received the bonus and now I can’t even see my knew $5500 water service. #*kitten* Happens
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
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    We don't have Holiday parties here at work (haven't for about 10 years, or so I was told by some of the oldtimers)
    We had a choice between a ham or a park pass for all of the local county parks and beaches. I chose the park pass, hiking and hanging out at the beach whenever I have a free minute for the next year is way better than eating some poor dead pig.
  • RobfromLakewood
    RobfromLakewood Posts: 684
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    No cash bonuses, but we'll have a breakfast together on the 14th. After the workday, we don't come back until January 7th, so lots of time off. I will most likely get cards, candy canes, coffee mugs and maybe a wallet or cologne. I'm a teacher and my students can be very sweet about the holidays. They will be getting little gift bags from me.
  • julieh391
    julieh391 Posts: 683 Member
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    We have a pretty decent party. But as far as a bonus goes... Last year I got a Snuggie. True story.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
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    Nope, no bonus, but an invite to our biggest client's Christmas party which is usually very good, and dinner with our own small company.

    At my old job in Canada I once got a Christmas bonus to die for. My employers gave me return airfare to anywhere in the world I wanted to go. I was living in Canada, so I was thinking Australia or New Zealand. Then I met Karen, and went to England instead. I am now married to Karen and live in England. :happy: Not a bad choice.

    Some day maybe we'll go to New Zealand.
  • llgisme711
    llgisme711 Posts: 17
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    me - self employed so no bonus but clients give generous gift baskets
    hubby - $1,000 Christmas bonus (after taxes) usually - no christmas party so the boss can put more money into giving a bigger bonus to his staff instead.
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
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    I'm a teacher so the only bonus I get is 2 weeks off work :smile:

    There is an xmas party, but it's expensive, and the same week I'm going to a wedding reception, so I'm not going.
  • Wabbit05
    Wabbit05 Posts: 434 Member
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    No bonus, maybe a raise but not guaranteed. Just a gift exchange and cookie exchange at the partner's beach house. Very low key.
  • johnlatv
    johnlatv Posts: 655 Member
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    I am very lucky, i get a % of my current salary (i have been grandfathered in) i get a christmas party, i get a division lunch and a office lunch, i get a gift from the owner, and i get a gift from my 2 bosses. I am very very lucky.
  • skrakalaka
    skrakalaka Posts: 338 Member
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    I'm a nurse in Canada, so no. We used to get a free turkey dinner if we worked on Christmas day, now we have to pay for it. We organize and pay for our own Christmas parties.
  • mygrl4meee
    mygrl4meee Posts: 943 Member
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    I been working for the same company for six years. Last year, was the first year they put on a fancy Christmas party and they are doing it again. They claim that years before they couldn't afford it. I have never got a bonus but can always dream. It's not unusal for my clients to give me a gift but not always.
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,141 Member
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    Nope.

    :sad: :sad: :sad:
  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
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    I usually get one. My company also throws a huge annual Xmas party up at headquarters in New York, but I never go.
  • indygal76
    indygal76 Posts: 283 Member
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    We have a very nice Christmas party every year (in fact, it is this Friday). We get a "live" check with 2 weeks pay on it! :happy:

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