Who gets a Christmas bonus???

We don't really get a "Christmas bonus" but we get quarterly bonuses and the last one of the yr is in our paycheck at the end of October so I USE IT like a Christmas bonus!!

I get 2 weeks off paid (week of Christmas and week of New Year's). Works out well to catch all of the bowl games.

I would take this over any bonus.

Or a raise would be nice.

We've gotten nothing for the past 3 years. Hubby works for a start up company and to be honest, we are just happy they can still afford to pay us/that he still has a job. I wish we got a big fat bonus check though.

I work for an amazing company and I worked my *kitten* off this year. I think they already gave me a raise without telling me actually and I'm looking forward to my bonus.

I'm so busy I've been on MFP all day - it's just that time of year!

I also work a 1/2 day the 24th and get until January 2nd off paid. Mind you - I'm taking extra time so I get 2 1/2 weeks off.

No bonus, but I love my job and am so grateful to have it.

But we have an awesome holiday party! We have a casino company come in with games, Vegas style dealers, a magician, ("money" won is used to enter drawings for prizes). There are door prizes as well. It is catered by our own catering department (extremely awesome) and we always have a great time.

I work for a public school. The superintendent and his staff put recipes on a page and staple it to my December check. Thats my christmas bonus! I do get sweet little gifts and snotty hugs from the most precious students in the world! Who needs a bonus.?!?!

My husband gets a ham and a $20 walmart gift card.

Edited to add party...all the teachers bring a potluck dish. There is enough food to feed an army! Good news is, there are always healthy options plus the one I bring. Then, the special Ed dept has a potluck another day.

I get to keep my job. I guess that's a bonus in today's world.

No, but around this time every year I do get a rash of emails asking me to donate money to my employer, which I find to be one of the more ridiculous requests ever. We don't have a holiday party in the group I'm in, although there is an "open house" for all employees, I never bother going though.

Edited to add, it is a small improvement over my last employer in this respect though. They closed down the week between Christmas and New Years in order to save costs (heating, lights, etc.), but required you to take your own accumulated leave time over that period. Happy Holidays!

I don't work (SAHM), but my SO gets a safety bonus each year. If no one has been hurt on the job that year it ends up being a decent amount. And they put together a little buffet for the employees. They also give out hams to all the employees and at Thanksgiving they give laundry baskets filled with a turkey and other things for a thanksgiving dinner. Although working for the company is a pain in itself, they try to make up for it at the end of the year I guess.

We have a really nice Christmas party and we all get a bonus. The bonus isn't from the school, but the parents of the students. Instead of the students buying individual gifts, all the parents mail in money for Christmas presents to the faculty. Then the money is distributed evenly among us. It's very nice. We have awesome parents.

I work in a small office and my boss actually asks for a Christmas list from us. He will never tell us how much he has budgeted so we just make him a list of things that we would like in varying amounts. On one hand, it's really nice of him, but it's really awkward because we never know what to ask for.

In years past I've received a nice set of pots and pans, a wine and cheese basket, a Kindle, and a gift certificate to a nice restaurant.

How many of you get a Christmas bonus from their work? Do you have a nice company Christmas party? We used to get an awesome bonus but due to bad economy it's been drastically reduced these last few years and there's a rumor there may be none at all this year:sad: Sighhhhh.....I'm thankful to be employed though. So many families are hurting.

Wishing everyone the best of holidays:flowerforyou:

I got a bonus, but it was just a regular annual performance bonus that just happens to be paid out around Christmastime. No Christmas party though. At my old job we had lavish Christmas parties but no performance bonus at all. I will take the money and not be forced to hang out with my stupid coworkers after hours any more than I have to, thank you very much! (Clearly I just looove my job...)

What's a bonus?!?

I work for the great state of Texas so no bonus that comes from the employer. However, the past couple years, my bosses pooled their monies together & give the admins a nice cash gift. This year I'm in a different department, so I doubt that will be happening (not that my boss isn't great, it's just there's only one of him where the other department had several upper mgmt).

Christmas party - again the other department had one (again NOT funded by the state, of course) & it was pretty awesome! Since we're in law enforcement, there's not much drinking (fine by me since I'm not a big drinker), but I had the joy of helping plan last years event & it was fun! TONS of food (potluck style), gifts & door prizes for everyone, Santa made a surprise appearance & gave all the kids a gift, we had a sing along with randomly selected participants doing the 12 days of Christmas, then everyone joined for Silent Night sung acapela. After that we had a DJ play music & we danced till we were exhausted! I've never had so much fun!

I work for a small family-owned company (not my family) and in the 6 years i've been here there has only been one where we didn't get a bonus because things were really slow. It's not guaranteed or expected by us, If they have extra money and want to then it's greatly appreciated but if not, well, we all still have great jobs and we get 2 awesome Christmas parties - one at a fancy restaurant with all of our spouses, and one at the office, a lunch time potluck with a secret Santa. I'm thankful to work here, it's the only work environment like this that i've ever been employed in and I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to not only have a job, but to have a job at a place that goes that extra mile. Previous to this I worked in retail, no bonus, no thank you, no nothing, so I understand where the other posters are coming from as well, it makes me all the more thankful now.

I've noticed reading through that those of us answering yes, for the most part, work at small companies.