On the back of the tipping the bin man thread, is anyone in line for a Christmas bonus from their employer?
I'm bloody hoping for something just to cover the cost of actual Christmas this year 😯
Yep, a job in 2014.
another record year so I'd be suprised if we don't.
have you gone over and above? why do you deserve a bonus? what is in your contract about a bonus?
Not having a go but the idea that we all get a bonus for something (ie just more pay) is strange
We dont get a Christmas bonus (other than payday being moved to before Christmas itself) but we do get a bonus in April and inflation payrise. Along with healthcare and final salary pension its a tough act to follow when Im job hunting.
erm charity funded university employee
we dont even get a free xmas lunch!
its these bloody private sector freeloaders that expect/ get all the good stuff and then whinge about pensions 😉
edit: I also have to come in and look after some cells over the xmas break for which I wont get paid 🙁 and my wife will give me grief!
Yup, I'll be paying myself very large Bonus, It'll be a large Greggs Pasty in a Binners stylee. 😆
never had a christmas bonus.
haven't had a pay rise in 4 years.
bah humbug.
about £100 - and grateful for it, although others here aren't so grateful. the mrs gets an annual bonus this years was 40% of her annual salary
I've worked my nuts off this year, as well as managing the site I personally have been the main groundworker on a project just short of a million quid. So whilst I wouldn't have been that busy solely managing the site I've saved a fair chunk by doing the ground works rather than it being subbed out.
Nothing in my contract at all so all at the owners discretion.
Yep I will. I'll be paid time and a half for my 10 hour shift on Christmas day. So £11.25 an hour.
We don't get bonuses, regardless of performance. We did get a pay rise, of 1%, this year, which is the first for three or four years. Decent pension, but our contributions have increased so a reduced take home each month.
We pay for our Christmas meal too, though get one drink on arrival paid for.
What is this "employer" you speak of? Be glad you've got a job and are getting paid...
Usually £100 but this morning we got a memo saying it will be £150 as the company is doing so well.
Blimey, who do you lot work for where your employers are doing well?!
As above, just still having a job in 2014 would be fantastic.
erm [s]charity funded university [/s]large american corporate employeewe dont even get a free xmas lunch!
No bonus here - but the senior management team have come up with a cracker of an idea ..they would like all the supervisors to club in to buy a bottle of wine for each employee on the contract.
ho ho ho.
Not sure if this is just another willy waving thread. I have no idea why its important to know whther other people get one or not.
I was chatting to a pal recently who told me that his organistion has kindly organised a Christmas lunch....but then sent a memo round saying should anyone imbibe any alcohol at all and then go back to the office they would be in breach of their employment contract and apprpriate steps would be taken (ie termination). Should they wish to drink, they must not return and take a half day's holiday, so long as there was appropriate cover.
I'm not promoting drunkeness in the workplace, but that seemed particularly mean-spirited and heavy-handed.
Meal and piss up paid for, and nice gift is given too.
No bonus, although I have two bonus periods so hopefully I'll have one paid out at the end of January, depending on my results against criteria. (I’ve a non-sales based role).
Self employed. Taking a few days holiday will be my bonus even though I will earn zip. This year has been mad busy.
good chance ill be in kuwait for xmas - on double dayrate so ill live.
(and get my time back 😀 )
Crate of beer and a bottle of wine, I'm not complaining.
Before i started they used to take everyone out for Xmas dinner and pay for a piss up,
A few employees complained they didn't like the pub so
They stopped doing it all together.
Blimey, who do you lot work for where your employers are doing well?!As above, just still having a job in 2014 would be fantastic.
Just been given a 100% creditworthiness rating by Dunn & Bradstreet and currently investing about £6m of our own cash in a new robotic production facility in a brand new building, which will triple our production capacity. Not everyone is doing badly in the UK!
[quote=tonyd said] large american corporate employee
we dont even get a free xmas lunch!
+1
I'm a hairy arsed builder so no willy waving here! As said it made me think on the back of the tipping bin men post. A good mate who's a hairdresser does very well up to Christmas with folks saying keep the change etc.
That never happens in this trade.
We get a Poinsettia and a bottle of sherry!
We aren't ruddy pensioners and these always end up being given to my mum.
I am clearly in the wrong job, then. Mrs just been canned and sitting at home frantically trying to get a job, absolutely nothing going. Fingers crossed for mine, we have steadily reduced and reduced until the few of us remaining do everything.
Bonus. Bonus? An extra payment for doing your job properly? Nah, don't get it................there again, I work in the NHS, failing at every turn............. 😐
We all got a bonus this year. £30 gift voucher.
I was slightly more appreciative when I logged in to the website to claim it and found all my previous years' unclaimed vouchers too, totalling £150.
What is a bonus? I just found out my hope that I would be offered a 3yr contract has just been downgraded to 1year contract, again. 🙁
Armed Forces so we'll probably get another 3yr pay freeze and be forced on to a new pension scheme that no one wants but can't do anything about. Nice bonus for 10yrs of full time Operations. Of course the Army Reserve will be there to pick up the pieces!
I know choose your trade! 😆
not this year, industry very slow.
Been on a pay freeze for 4 years, works meal next week but I cant go as I've got to go to the dentist and have a tooth pulled out. I've already paid my £10 deposit which I'll not see again. Humbug.
Not here either, we do get a personal and company performance related bonus in March/April though.
7% of annual salary for everyone, based on company performance.
I work in adult social care, so no payrise and mandatory unpaid leave over christmas and redundant in March. Place is already like a ghost ship so no Chistmas meal. Bah humbug 😉
Reading some of the above, I suddenly feel much better.
We get a full-attendance bonus of £250 just before Xmas (which I'll be getting this year *inserts halo smiley*). Plus the company pays for all food/drinks at the Xmas party. Cue lots of amazing inappropriateness 😈
Nada. The managers who leave organising the Christmas do to the minions don't even get a round of drinks in.
Fifty 1st Class stamps I kid you not 🙂
£200 if you work over the Christmas period (last 3 weeks in December)and have no time off. I am on sick leave so will get £100 🙂
a Poinsettia and a bottle of sherry!
This is Aaamazing! 😀
We get £100 usually, and a partee which I don't bother to go to, so can't grumble.
"Proper" bonuses are in the summer. I don't get one of those because I'm lazy, sloppy and insubordinate. 🙂
Yup, dependent on performance - it's up to 10% of salary I think.
11% of my salary this year, as we beat our targets by 174%.
I was bit horrified at how much the student loan company are going to get out of it, but at least it gets it paid off quicker...
company newsletters have been full of how well the company has been doing all year, except the last one, missing targets, behind on budgets....
Pay rises(ha ha ha) are announced in January....