It's Christmas Bonus Season!

[HighPlainsGrifter]

I give my employees half a paycheck as a Christmas Bonus. They get it with their check on the 20th of November, so 2 weeks ago. Does that seem like a reasonable amount? I ask because among my 20 person crew, only one of them said thanks. If I cut out bonuses next year I wonder if they would notice. Ungrateful fucks. I put up with them driving my rigs into the fucking ditch and don't say shit when I drop a few extra grand into their crown royal fund?

Maybe this is how Jesus felt.

[Mikey]

They're nothing but a bunch of dirt rats anyway. What do you expect?



That being said, I used to work for a small company (maybe 35 total employees) but the owner always gave out pretty generous bonuses (depending on how the company was faring), which most of us definitely acknowledged, as well as put on a Christmas party at a local high end restaurant with all food and booze paid for. He also loved being Santa during the gift exchange where you'd pick numbers out of a hat to choose among wrapped gifts, or claim one that somebody else had already taken and unwrapped, after which they could pick another. This would go on for hours with much hilarity.

We were bought out in 2019 by a national company (our owner made sure I had a pile of stock options before that happened). There was barely any budget for bonuses or Christmas parties after that, but our former owner (now the division VP) picked up the tab himself for our traditional party. Dude was hard headed and could, at times, be a bitch to work for. But he always backed us up and made sure to take care of his employees.

[Screw_Michigan]

I have never in my career received a Christmas bonus. Then again, I'm a lowly jizzmopper, so I've never expected one.

EDIT: Wait, take that back. The dentist I worked for in high school (and Mgo worked for after me) gave me a Christmas bonus once.

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Bump

Another year, another round of ingrates. The only person to say thanks was my SO.

Jelly of the month club next year, I fukken swear.

[Dr_Phibes]

Employ a reward system, money for the hard workers. A flashlight and a tire pressure gauge for the doggers. You've got benevolence and cynicism all in one tidy package.

[Mikey]

I got no bonus this year, and not much of a COLA on next year's SS payment. I'm not sending Uncle Sam a thank you note.

[Adelpiero]

Lol, company i work for, gave a $50 bill for christmas, last 4 years, they decide, w/o telling anyone, that they will give us the 24th off w/pay, and thats our bonus. I kindly told them to fuck off. It's all good, sales position in same field about to open up, pays more and i know a guy.

I could see telling everyone that they will give us the 24th off(i took mon off, to have the 5 day weekend), but to not say a word about bonus, and act like thats an even deal??????? I wouldn't of done shit, but made 5 phone calls and called it a day, so what did it do for me, except cost me a free $50 i could blow on $25 scratch offs? GFY each and every one of you this Holiday season!

[Go Coogs']

I work for a company of 5000 employees, so the bonus structure is set on 4 different metrics; profits, safety, sustainability, and environmental.

My pay-grade is at a team lead level so the floor on my bonus is 7% of my gross annual salary. On top of that, the company puts profit sharing bump in our pension, so it’s a nice haul every mid-March.

I will slice off a bit of the bonus and use it for vacations, but the rest goes into a MM account.


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[StrawMan]

I have never in my career received a Christmas bonus. Then again, I'm a lowly jizzmopper, so I've never expected one.

EDIT: Wait, take that back. The dentist I worked for in high school (and Mgo worked for after me) gave me a Christmas bonus once.

I'd be interested to read about what type of work you did. I worked for a dentist in high school, too [actually during summer breaks].

Started off with stripping, waxing, and polishing floors [mucho fun riding the monstrous floor polisher]. Cleaned and serviced equipment and air compressors, painted, and cleaned the bathrooms. The free nitrous oxide rides in the exam rooms made up for scrubbing urinal beards lol.

Starting at the bottom and doing quality work when I wasn't huffing nitrous landed me a gig at a local crown & bridge lab. I worked my way up from plaster models monkey to waxing, spruing, investing, burning out, and casting precious metals. I did all the yellow gold and white gold full cast crowns, palladium Porcelaim Fused to Metal crowns, and PFM bridgework. I became a waxing & anatomy carving badass. I also was on the bleeding edge of digital photography and dental implant technology, giving presentations and technique demonstrations at dental conventions. After college and married with a baby on the way, work as a crown & bridge technician provided us a comfortable living.

Sin,

[HighPlainsGrifter]

[Mikey]

Interesting. Last time I had a crown done I stayed in the chair while they basically printed it out on a 3-D machine in the office.

[StrawMan]

Rack HPG! Good pull!



Mikey, I don't think crown and bridge labs even exist anymore.

Rendered obsolete, they went the way of Fotohut and Blockbuster.

[Mikey]

Blockbuster isn't quite dead. There's one left in Bend, OR.

[Carson]

Don't forget to rewind those DVDs.

[88BuckeyeGrad]

My next door neighbor in Ohio had a small business. He always gave his employees those meat log gift boxes from Pepperidge Farms. Then he bitched when half of them were found in spring in the gutters above his office.

[FiatLux]

Best Christmas song eva!

Pay up!






Merry Christmas from The City.

[Mikey]

[StrawMan]

[The Seer]

Game over.