that my husband doesn't get one. They do bonuses in the spring. It would be much more helpful at Christmas.
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My employer cut two paychecks this week! Double just because it's Christmas! Free week's pay!
shareWorked at a glass shop for a cheapskate owner.
He showed up on the jobsite one year at 3:30 Christmsa Eve with gift wrapped 2 cans of mixed nuts for each of us.
I had to work really hard to convince a co-worker that throwing the mixed nuts through the owners picture window at 3:00am would probably land him in jail!!
6 months later the cans of nuts were still rolling around the bed of Larrys truck.
I've worked for the same company for 13 years. Some years, we get a $300 bonus that goes through payroll, gets a 401k deduction, and taxed. I usually net about $185-$200. Most years, we get nothing. Christmas bonuses are a thing of the past for most larger corporations.
Meanwhile, the fat-cats at our corporate office get bonuses and stock options in the millions of dollars each year....on top of a 7 digit base salary.....
For example, the CEO of my employer has a 1 million base salary and his total bonuses and stock options from last year totaled 9 million. But, they couldn't afford to pay out a Christmas bonus.....
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A Garth Brooks CD. Which I sold on eBay.
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A sizable ham is the only thing I can ever remember getting. Oh look, we get another ham.....
shareThe best Christmas bonus (technically a year-end bonus) I received was $200. Those stopped after my second year with the company (eight years ago) and, outside a $10 Starbucks gift card, I haven't received a bonus since.
Also, I haven't received a raise in five years. Mind you, prior to that, I received a pay cut, then a restoration plus a small raise.
So yeah, I'm looking - and have been looking, ardently - for a new job.
A gift card from the same store where I worked - The owner got back his money & he made a profit with my gift card cos I had no other choice to spend it in his store...
shareThis one year I was sent to a strange underground chamber filled with bricks. Most of them contained coins that spilled out when I jumped into them, another contained a weird-looking, mobile mushroom that made me bigger when I ate it. The exit was an impractically huge pipe.
I can't make up my mind about whether it was the best, or the worst.