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Posted: 12/19/2014 12:00:21 PM EDT

[#1]

I work for a private company and we've gotten Christmas gift every year. I really appreciate the gift as it's a big moral booster for employees. Back 6 years ago when the economy went south, our business went down drastically but we still got Christmas gift that year...$100 in my case. This years gift was a little over $1,500 after .gov withholdings which is more than last year.
My wife got an end-of-year bonus too at her work place which was almost $6k after .gov withholdings.
Overall it was pretty good year for us.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:01:08 PM EDT

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LOL...what bonus?

Last year, our Christmas Bonus checks were here...in the fucking building...but the General Manager sent them back, had them cancelled and used the money to make our bottom line look better so he'd get a bigger bonus.

To call this guy a cocksucker would be an insult to honest cocksuckers everywhere else.

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If I was that guy's boss I would have fired him on the spot when I found out. How short sighted can a person get before they become too stupid to breath on their own.

ETA: depending how the bonus funds were distributed and how they were funneled back into the books to make the bottom line look better it amounts to basically theft. Again I would have fired him on the spot.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:01:50 PM EDT

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Also hey FlatDarkEarf I finished the Fusion gel test video I'll have it up soon.

Awesome!! Thanks!

I have some TSXs if you want to test those as well.

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Posted: 12/19/2014 12:02:04 PM EDT

[#4]

I reckon they will tell us we can head out an hour or two early on Christmas Eve. We will see if work conditions allow for it, but the early release email warms my heart all the same.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:03:58 PM EDT

[#5]

Only Christmas bonus I've ever gotten was a turkey or a ham, and I haven't gotten that in 7 years. It's alright, though. I'm just thankful that I have a job and can pay my bills.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:06:11 PM EDT

[#6]

In my 21 years of dot mil service I never saw one, didn't expect one. Some years we got raises other years we lost due to cuts in COLA or housing, etc. That's just the game and you get used to it but I don't regret my time and would do it again.

Now that I have been in the private sector a few years, WOW! I have had a bonus and raise every year. This year the bonus was 5 figures

plus a raise. I feel truly blessed and am grateful for everything I have. I love this job, love the people I work with and would still be just as happy if there were no bonuses.

The money this year went right into the bank. All our holiday shopping is done and after the holidays we are going to use it to pay some bills off.

I am very appreciative and humbled of everything I receive.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:08:21 PM EDT

[#7]

Nope. But I gave them out as the owner of the company. It means less money in my pocket at the end of the year (less I have to pay in taxes), but it is the right thing to do for people that busted their ass to make the business a success during the year.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:14:26 PM EDT

[#8]

Never have and hope I never do.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:15:34 PM EDT

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I gave each of my employees a bonus equal to 10% of their yearly gross. Everyone seemed quite pleased.

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Very generous! How many of them kick ass for you and how many still piss moan and bellyache about trivial shit?

As a small business owner, sometimes it is tough to cough up those Christmas bonuses yet I always do. $1000.00 after tax bonuses for our five employees. We have a great little group and do appreciate them very much but damn if some of them just act miserable. Some days it's a well oiled machine and others I could strangle them...lol.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:16:24 PM EDT

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Also hey FlatDarkEarf I finished the Fusion gel test video I'll have it up soon.

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I have some TSXs if you want to test those as well.

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OK, I'll send them your way soon.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:17:32 PM EDT

[#11]

I got demoted with the same pay, made over 15k in bonuses, and got an $800 Christmas bonus.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:19:38 PM EDT

[#12]

Yeah, 20% of base pay. It's in my employment contract. Bonuses don't get paid until feburary though

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:21:17 PM EDT

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LOL...what bonus?

Last year, our Christmas Bonus checks were here...in the fucking building...but the General Manager sent them back, had them cancelled and used the money to make our bottom line look better so he'd get a bigger bonus.

To call this guy a cocksucker would be an insult to honest cocksuckers everywhere else.

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Posted: 12/19/2014 12:22:38 PM EDT

[#14]

My Christmas bonus this year was an announcement of 20% pay cuts across the board. Hooray.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:23:16 PM EDT

[#15]

Probably not. If I do it will be small. Wife got a $100 bonus this year.

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Not really bothered by it. Going to get to see both families for the holidays, we have our health and a good home.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:25:37 PM EDT

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I've never gotten one in my life. Small companies, big companies, never.

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Same here. I'm retired now so still no.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:36:37 PM EDT

[#17]

$50 Holiday "Bonus", from a company who just at my facility alone made $5,000,000 MORE than the projected 2014 profit predictions

Paid for my Black Friday ffl transfer, a case of beer, and 2 tins of grizz... Better than nothing I suppose

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:39:05 PM EDT

[#18]

WTF is a Christmas bonus?

Oh I guess the 1% raise we are getting is our bonus.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:41:26 PM EDT

[#19]

I never count on a Christmas bonus because I look at it as a gift. The thing that pisses me off is I work for a county EMS service and while we aren't getting a bonus this year, you can bet the sheriffs dept. will be getting theirs. They also get a raise every year and we haven't seen one in several years. Maybe we need to start shooting dogs!

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:42:11 PM EDT

[#20]

I got a 12% raise, does that count?

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:44:18 PM EDT

[#21]

Everybody got $1k bonus (taxes paid by company) they give it during Thanksgiving dinner, where they take everybody out on their dime. As an extra bonus my boss (uncle) also purchased a basketball hoop, archery target, Xbox games and some other stuff for my kids. Plus he gave me a 10k raise this year. It pays to increase sales via the web and work for familia! Oh I also got to use one of his Dodge Chargers for the last 6 months :)
At least 18 people work here.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:45:04 PM EDT

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Got $100 gift card to Amazon from my company, and then a 20 pound turkey from the company I'm contracted out to.

Hey, free shit that no one was obligated to give me, I'm not complaining.

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Union turkey? it was tasty!

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:46:01 PM EDT

[#23]

If it makes you feel better, we get a book every year which the over runs go on sale in mid january for 35 dollars.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:46:16 PM EDT

[#24]

I got a case of beer.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:50:23 PM EDT

[#25]

Got an anti-bonus this year.

They waited until the week of Thanksgiving to announce the cancellation of attendance bonuses for 2014 (for not using sick days).

Ironically, that made me sick.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:51:12 PM EDT

[#26]

I've never in my life received a Christmas bonus.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:55:51 PM EDT

[#27]

Never have, and I'm not owed one. Just happy to have a good job.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:58:21 PM EDT

[#28]

I got a $30 gift card for Kroger and the news that my location is being sold to private investors.

So I have that going for me.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:59:27 PM EDT

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What the hell is a Christmas bonus?

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Posted: 12/19/2014 12:59:29 PM EDT

[#30]

60 day WARN act layoff notices went out today at work, I did not get one and that is my bonus.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:00:35 PM EDT

[#31]

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Posted: 12/19/2014 1:01:53 PM EDT

[#32]

I got a $25 Walmart gift card, so that's something. What bothers me is how the laziest, clueless, pain in the ass driver got the same exact thing. It's all about "fairness", and keeping live bodies in the driver's seat, I guess.

I'll buy socks and underwear with it.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:02:38 PM EDT

[#33]

A...what?

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:04:04 PM EDT

[#34]

I got a ham.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:09:42 PM EDT

[#35]

Just started a new job. Don't think we get a Christmas bonus, but I am pretty happy and thankful to get Christmas eve and Christmas day both off paid.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:10:39 PM EDT

[#36]

We get profit share in January.

It's some confusing system that never adds up. The math is not possible to reverse engineer.
What I do know is that despite having record sales in 2013, my bonus was only $100 more than my 2012 check.

The thing I hate about it though, one of the supervisors had the nerve to tell me "they don't have to give 'you' a check" as if I wasn't in the top five for OT to make production happen as well as using that bonus all year as a smack in the face when anything went wrong. If you don't want to give me a check, don't reference to it all year long.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:14:29 PM EDT

[#37]

Nope. And we work for 3 docs that each bring in about $600k a piece.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:14:45 PM EDT

[#38]

Bonuses (or bonii if you want to be a grammar nazi) are a big part of my compensation. Despite having increasing revenue and profitability over the last 4 years, however, my bonuses have gone done each year with the exception of this year (which only tied my low). We'll see how motivated I am for next year (a fact that I explicitly conveyed in November pre-announcement)...

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:15:19 PM EDT

[#39]

In my current contract I don't even get a Christmas card. My last Contract I got a card, a lavish dinner, and a small bonus.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:15:42 PM EDT

[#40]

Don't ever get Christmas bonuses, so no. Unless you count getting to leave 2 hours early on Christmas Eve.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:16:33 PM EDT

[#41]

havent gotten shit

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:17:32 PM EDT

[#42]

Christmas bonus? not a chance. I do get Christmas eve and Christmas day off, so there's that.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:18:53 PM EDT

[#43]

I got about $3000 last year as a bonus shoved into my 401k at the end of the year, but it's company stock.

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we get a 5-8% bonus every year

then they tax the bastard 33%

No, they don't.

25% top marginal bracket on the income + 7.65% FICA = 32.65%

I think that's what he meant.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:18:57 PM EDT

[#44]

I have worked every Thanksgiving and every Christmas for almost three decades at my airline. Never anything like a bonus or holiday pay. Although this past Thanksgiving they handed me a turkey sandwich and a glass of cider as I went through operations.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:21:09 PM EDT

[#45]

Not really a christmas bonus but I got my annual profit sharing check yesterday!

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:23:12 PM EDT

[#46]

Never have, ever.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:25:36 PM EDT

[#47]

I got a beer mug, a travel mug, and cookies...........and two weeks off..paid.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:30:41 PM EDT

[#48]

The job I've currently had for the past few years gives out Bonuses twice a year. It is pretty fantastic, and always nice to get a pretty substantial amount of money. After the government takes their 1/3, I try and use the most of the rest to get good gifts for everyone.