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I'm self employed, so no - have a couple of subbies do a bit for me now and then on site, but they aren't permanent - occassionally take them out for some beers/food, but not a Christmas bonus.
I also have a shop and employ a woman who does a cracking job - to reward this, I've given her a 10% pay-rise this year and will be taking her out on the piss next Saturday (maybe with some other local business owners/staff too) and she will be getting a bonus of around £150.
No. as I'm freelance and get lots of different sized bonuses right through the year.
By the looks of things a lot of salaried people look at them as a derisory token payment that acts as a milestone for enduring another year.
Cheer up it's Christmas! 😀
Nope, just a special pile of marking. Still, less stressful with no January exams this year.
Bonus? What's that?
A year of frugalness from us but at least the big boss was able to upgrade his supercar
Something just woke me, I thought I'd check the bank.
Mine has landed, I'm so very glad I bought the gaffer a very decent cognac this year.
A very nice surprise for Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas you lot!
I own a few shops and have a few staff in my team, we take them out for a little soirée and then provide the goods needed for their Christmas dinners.
Every little helps
I get 1% of revenue that I generate.
I might pitch that to my boss, it would be about 75% of my salary!
It'd be 600%+ of mine. Not sure how I feel about that...
We've had a bottle of red and a bottle of prosecco every year for the past 7 and think a buffet is being put on today. They are also trying out a profitshare program based on company performance but that will be worked out in jan.
Never had one.
My boss gave me £1000 (exc. Vat) to spend on any IT equipment I wanted. I bought a MacBook Pro Retina.
I was the only one, though, as I managed to make a good profit on a project I was running.
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It'd be 600%+ of mine. Not sure how I feel about that...
time to look for a new job..
Nowt. First year I think, we normally get £100 or so chucked in to our wage packets.
Ours was stopped as apparently it was some issue for HMRC or too much admin overhead to manage (our HR is centralised globally). So they added the £40 or something to base wages which was even more pointless really.
Company wide £400 Christmas bonus here.
We as a small company had a really tough few years since 2007, teetering on the brink several times. However the last couple of years have a been brilliant. We have all worked our arses off though. Boss has thanked the ones who stuck with him this year. So got a great pay rise and a brilliant bonus. Made up!
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It'd be 600%+ of mine. Not sure how I feel about that...
time to look for a new job..
Surely that depends how hard to sell the product/service is - if it could be sold by a trained monkey then a bonus that's a large percentage of the sales figure makes no sense, does it?
I work in transport and it's crazy busy at the moment! Just had £3800 Crimbo bonus 🙂 Well happy.
Couple of days off.Something to do with the cheeses, apparently...
We did.
Just found out yesterday....but boss has now said that because nobody said thank you to him by 12.30 today, we are now working a normal day with no early finish.
Oh how i laughed - just made himself look a complete dick in about 30 secs there 🙄
I took a carton of milk. If you don't treat your staff well anarchy will prevail.
Bit of a dick move on your office if no one said thanks.
No bonus for us this year, I work in a factory for a well known German company 😉
First time in 11 years, saying that, profits were down this year, they only made 60+ Billion profits this year!
Still, happy to have a job and they have been good to me this year for other reasons.
Self employed, I didn't give myself a bonus as I though I'd been a lazy bastard this year & didn't really deserve one.
Then I relented & bought myself a new frame.
Yes thank you, have done every year I've been with the company. It's a nice little extra, and this year I owe the tool van men nothing, so it's all mine, well it's soon going to the LBS as I'm sure they must have something shiny I would like.
a "bonus" that staff are always paid by their employer is little more than those employees giving their company a nice interest free loan throughout the year.
Bizarrely, although ive done my job well this year, I've had the misfortune of being on transactions that have lost us just shy of €1bn of work. Despite this I got a payrise and bonus in July...only to open a letter yesterday to find that ive had another (much smaller) payrise for no apparent reason at all.
It's the worst year I could fathom from a work perspective, but I've been rewarded more than any year previously.
Not complaining, actually think I might try to keep losing work 🙂
A tin of heroes between the six of us
Building trade has been good this year. On seeing the bonus this morning at 3am ish it seemed to promote a spending spree. Good times are back for now....