Laughable Xmas bonuses

[HoldenOn]

I got fired lol
No need for lifeguards anymore ;-;

 

[Guyb93]

I used to work for a local council, no bonuses, no party unless we paid for them ourselves, your line manager might have given you a bottle of wine from his own pocket.....
Firm I'm with now you get a hamper and 3 extra paid days, though I don't think I've long enough service (3 weeks tomorrow.) for the hamper and I know I don't for the paid days so I have to take mandatory leave.

See our company back in February said we have to use 3 days holiday to cover Xmas or take in paid which is fair but then in September they tell everyone they have to keep 7 days for Xmas or have unpaid .. who has 7 days holiday by September that hasn’t already been booked in , we never get a bonus in the 5 years iv worked there never had a bonus so for them to give such a weak bonus after a crazy year is such a punch to the gentlemanly area

 

[Guyb93]

I got fired lol
No need for lifeguards anymore ;-;

Yeah but when pools re open and kids start drowning think of the power you lot hold ahahahha

 

[HoldenOn]

Yeah but when pools re open and kids start drowning think of the power you lot hold ahahahha

I'll take 50 bucks an hour, or that kid kicks it looooooool

 

[Guyb93]

I'll take 50 bucks an hour, or that kid kicks it looooooool

Exactly mate who’s laughing then ahahah

 

[DAnCSF]

Well given all that's happening with CV, many of us are blessed with jobs and if we got a EOY bonus that's a plus....I know many more people who have nothing...so we should be happy with our blessings and help others when we can....all the more important these days....

 

[Flushable Pets]

Well given all that's happening with CV, many of us are blessed with jobs and if we got a EOY bonus that's a plus....I know many more people who have nothing...so we should be happy with our blessings and help others when we can....all the more important these days....

That is my general outlook on the issue.

 

[seangee]

In all probability just a bad or misguided management decision. We really can't afford a bonus this year but it feels wrong not to give them anything - which is easily interpreted as the intentional bad tip.

In retrospect it would have been better just to say "sorry we can't afford a bonus this year" and then send everyone a bottle of wine / Amazon voucher / whatever. But of course its easy to sit here and criticise .

 

[Guyb93]

In all probability just a bad or misguided management decision. We really can't afford a bonus this year but it feels wrong not to give them anything - which is easily interpreted as the intentional bad tip.

In retrospect it would have been better just to say "sorry we can't afford a bonus this year" and then send everyone a bottle of wine / Amazon voucher / whatever. But of course its easy to sit here and criticise .

We don’t normally get anything so noting was expected we all laugh every year and say gotta earn that Xmas bonus .. this year we got one and it feels like we’re being mocked like your work efforts this year have amounted to the grand total of £30 ahahah

 

[kwi]

We don’t normally get anything so noting was expected we all laugh every year and say gotta earn that Xmas bonus .. this year we got one and it feels like we’re being mocked like your work efforts this year have amounted to the grand total of £30 ahahah

Not wanting to start a row but maybe that's all your work was worth.....
(Hope that was enough smilies so you know that was banter....)

 

[Guyb93]

Not wanting to start a row but maybe that's all your work was worth.....
(Hope that was enough smilies so you know that was banter....)

Actually thinking on that &30 was generous Ahahah

 

[CassCats]

Some jobs don't get bonuses. Mine doesn't, and if my work was open (its been closed since March due to covid), id have to work Christmas eve and day as well to boot.
It is what it is.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I don't see the problem. I've never gotten a Christmas bonus at my main job. I make decent money so I'm not complaining, but to my way of thinking a bonus is just that: Not required, not expected. It's a gift. Maybe it's different at some companies.

So, if my boss out of the blue gave me $40 (that's about what 30 pounds is worth), or even $5, and said, "This is a token of my appreciation for your work," I wouldn't be insulted. Of course it isn't what my work is worth; it isn't supposed to be. That's what my salary is for. Anything beyond that is a gift.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Forty bucks is forty bucks--take the kids out for ice cream, or take someone you love to a movie, or buy yourself a nice pair of fluffy, warm socks, and call it good.

 

[mcordelia]

I think it depends on the field. A lot of sales jobs especially you effectively work for incentives, one of which is the holiday bonus. You earn your individual commission on each sale, but then what keeps you from getting complacent with your own numbers are the group numbers, and then the top x performers each year get a vacation on the company dime or w/e. Plenty of companies have stuff like that.

 

[charmd2]

We got a $100 visa gift card... we just had to pay $6 out of pocket to activate it. It was unexpected, but they taxed us at gift rate for it, so $40 off my pay check for the technically $94 gift card. I guess it is still $54 more than I had originally.