What is typical for a Christmas Bonus?

CompuTron99

What is this "so-called" Christmas Bonus you speak of? haha

Our Christmas / Holiday bonus is that you still have a job.

eduromer

I usally get half of my monthly pay but it depends on how log you've been on the company, this year i only got like 300$

abefroman wrote: »

What is typical for a Christmas Bonus?

$50? $100? $500? a card?

brad-

towel (standard xmis present) + facecloth (bonus)

msteinhilber

I think what I look forward to most each holiday season since we don't get a bonus, is the big tin of cookies CDW likes to send to customers.

Kaminsky

Spent 15 years in NHS where you never get a bonus then left to join Huge outsourcer corporate and thought, now I will get one of those bonus things I always heard about.

First year, no bonus but a £160 pay rise. Second year, £160 bonus and no pay rise. This year, not a sausage !

These mega bonuses are mainly for sales types (these guys get mega bonuses if they do well) or small companies.

Unfortunately, I am really, really, really bad at sales. My only ever sales job, soon as I found out I got a 20% staff discount, I was on the till and giving every customer 20% off if they smiled and said hello. I was sacked from the company half hour after they found out what I was doing... Manager nearly fainted when the senior till supervisor told them what I was doing.... I was only 16 at the time. It was over priced cr.p though.

malcybood

apd123 wrote: »

Are you in the banking industry?

he he he made me chuckle

Diminutive

Hookers and blow.

I think I got 200 last XMas, 500 before, most ever was 1k. We'll find out soon what this years is pretty soon. I just spent 50k on licenses though (out of compliance - sucks to be the messenger) and have only been there 6 months so prospects don't look great.

mikedisd2

We get a Christmas party where everyone gets totally smashed and I find out how feral my work colleagues actually are.

I'm from a small town so it doesn't phase me, but still, I've really moved on from that kind of behaviour.

Slowhand

dynamik wrote: »

Man, I kind of feel bad responding after seeing all the down-trodden responses thus far. Our bonuses are given quarterly, and they range from $1-4k based on performance ($2k being average). Previous jobs have done nothing, $100-250 in gift cards, and $500-750 in cash.

I worked for a place that gave quarterly bonuses a while back, but the pound of flesh you'd have to give in return didn't make the (potential/mythical) $2,000 worth it. Most of the time, they'd look for any and all excuses to slash it down to a couple of hundred bucks and a steaming cup of kiss-my-ass.

The last job I had they couldn't afford to give bonuses, but would do fun stuff like take the staff out to see a (geeky) movie when the staff had put in a lot of work, or do a party in the office followed by a few days off. They'd also grant a couple of paid days off if you'd been busting your butt for a while, so getting a four or five-day weekend was regular practice if you'd put in a couple of weeks of working late or weekends to finish a project.

Turgon

Nothing..absolutely nothing.

tpatt100

I found out last week we get Christmas cash bonuses based on how many years you have been with the company. Since I just started mine gets pushed back until next year.

BradleyHU

apena7 wrote: »

Depends on how generous your company is.
My bonus will probably be working half-day on Christmas eve instead of a full day

same here....

veritas_libertas

dynamik wrote: »

I may be yet; we travel. I'm already slated to be in Michigan and Maryland for half of January

What part of MI?

eMeS

dynamik wrote: »

I may be yet; we travel. I'm already slated to be in Michigan and Maryland for half of January

Technically Maryland is in the South.

As far as bonuses are concerned, much of my career I spent working for a company where up to 35% of my entire salary was disbursed as a lump sum in a end of year bonus. My range over the years was anywhere from 80% of eligibility, all the way up to 150% of eligibility. It wasn't a "Christmas Bonus" per se, but it came around Christmas time.

MS

jamesp1983

I worked at a company who based it on how long you'd been with them. That was a great company.

Gogousa

I work for government, and bonus is a bad word

Slowhand

Gogousa wrote: »

I work for government, and bonus is a bad word

And here I was thinking that "government" was the bad word in that sentence.

Ryan82

The opportunity to work on Christmas Day. I love shift work.

miller811

a GOOSE EGG

somehow I never noticed that one in the 12 days of Christmas

vCole

We received a prorated bonus (From $120) this year. I ended up with $65. We also received a very nice company t-shirt.

NightShade03

I think for our Christmas bonus the company is promising to deliver our normal paychecks on time

Tin_Man

I have only ever received a $100 Gift card from an job I had a long long time ago, since that time and 2 employers’ later I have received nothing in terms of a x-mas bonus.

RouteThisWay

I think we get off early christmas eve for our bonus lol

Diminutive

Diminutive wrote: »

Hookers and blow.

I think I got 200 last XMas, 500 before, most ever was 1k. We'll find out soon what this years is pretty soon. I just spent 50k on licenses though (out of compliance - sucks to be the messenger) and have only been there 6 months so prospects don't look great.

500 it is! Plus a face grooming kit...I'd be offended if all the guys didn't get one.

Vogon Poet

Never had a job that gave out Xmas bonuses. Thought that was an urban myth.

qwertyiop

All I got was a $1 raise

RouteThisWay

I just got a $20 giftcard to a bbq buffet here lol. nice.

Megadeth4168

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There are some Pro and some Cons to working for local government.....

matradley

NightShade03 wrote: »

I think for our Christmas bonus the company is promising to deliver our normal paychecks on time

My company promises to pay us.

Super99

With this economy, I'm happy with a job AH!