Holiday Bonus

Anybody get one this year?

My shop had given them in recent years, but couldn't afford it this year. Instead we got $50 gift
certificates to the mall (one of those certificates that work at any Simor or whatever mall).

Very disappointing.

 

Be happy there's a bonus at all, TKO.

Here's another bonus for you: keeping your job.

 

Yeah, I'd take that.

Our "office party" is potluck. We're just grateful that the suits are coughing up 50 cents for each of us to get a soda from the machine...

 

My last paper gave us profit sharing. I got a nice 450 dollar check the week before Christmas.

 

My first newspaper gave all employees a week's pay as a Christmas bonus, which was nice except for the fact that the pay was so paltry to begin with.

Another one gave us a $25 gift certificate to a local food distribution company, which I'm almost certain the paper did not have to pay for; it was done in "in exchange for promotional considerations."

I had one other one give us each a turkey.

It has been at least 10 years since any of my employers has done anything like this, though.

I've never complained about it, because frankly, I don't view this as something I'm entitled to and I don't want to be regaled with the above comment about it being a bonus to keep my job.

Bah freakin' humbug

 

I got $50 bucks.

I'm ecstatic.

 

I got one this year, too, and it was a pretty nice surprise.

Of course, I've been at my new shop for about five months now and have been surprised -- in good ways -- quite often.

 

I got $175 (that's the figure I got based on some complicated formula based on salary, hours worked, etc.) and wasn't expecting it at all. Nice surprise. Also liked that my boss showed up at my home a couple of days ago with a plate of home-baked goodies and a slip of paper telling me I was getting a raise and exactly how much per hour it was.

A previous paper gave everyone a $20 gift card to Wal-Mart -- the day after running an editorial ripping into Wal-Mart after it announced plans to turn the existing store in a Super Wal-Mart with a grocery store.

 

I got a kick in the a$$ and told I better clean up my act or I won't be around to see next Christmas.

 

I've only worked at one place that gave us a Christmas bonus -- $15 gift cards to local grocery stores. The paper got them for free as part of some sort of ad deal, and I NEVER actually got one to the Krogers I shopped at.

I would have prefered nothing. I mean $15 is just an insult.

 

No, $15 is a case of Miller Lite!!!!

 

What the heck is a Christmas bonus?