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Do you receive a Christmas bonus from your employer?
- Thread starter JJH
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Here in Costa Rica we have aguinaldo: government mandated 13th salary equal to the average salary of the last 12 months, completely tax free.
Last job I was at used to do a turkey at Thanksgiving, and a $50 gift card at Christmas. Times got rough, and it just became the turkey with no Christmas card.
When I worked at a liquor distributor, we got a bottle of wine, a bottle of whiskey, and a case of beer for Christmas. Fun times.
When I worked at a liquor distributor, we got a bottle of wine, a bottle of whiskey, and a case of beer for Christmas. Fun times.
It's not called a Christmas bonus but it comes about a month ahead of it, so everyone calls it that. It's not much. After taxes maybe 1/4 of tour usual check.
still nice but nothing like my old job. We used to get a pretty substantial Christmas bonus there.
still nice but nothing like my old job. We used to get a pretty substantial Christmas bonus there.
Yes I actually do. It's a small bonus but it is nice. We also had success sharing at Home Depot but only the managers and supervisors (mostly managers) got anything really worth writing home about.
I get a check equal to 40 hours of work at the ends of July and November. The first one is considered a "Back to School" bonus that's meant to help families buy school supplies though everyone gets it even if they don't have kids. The second check is for Christmas.
Yes. I'm very lucky to work at a place that gives 3 bonuses a year, with Christmas/winter being the biggest. We all worked our asses off this year with several of my co-workers needing stress management counseling. We'll probably pull somewhere in between 8-10k bonus for Xmas.
I've been told they're "not guaranteed" and yet we get a 3-5% bonus every Christmas since I started.
No, but I get laid off November 30th! I guess my "Christmas bonus" will be my severance and I'm grateful to at least be getting that versus what some of my friends are facing, but I've been at this place over a decade and fully anticipate being in a weird place going into 2021. Anyways, that concludes my derail.
This is only my second Christmas with my employer, I think they gave us a gift card last year. This year they have declined to give me a raise because of COVID, and as a 'gift' to us for our hard work during the pandemic they gave us a coupon for two free pairs of socks. I wish I was joking. So not expecting much in terms of Christmas bonus, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
Nope. This year we don't even get a raise because hospitals don't have much money.
I'm just lucky to have the day off.
I'm just lucky to have the day off.
We get 4 days off to give us the time between Christmas and New Years off. TBH, I think a lot of positions don't function well with a bonus system as part of the compensation package as it can end up being divisive to teams overall and make for interesting decision making all in the name of hitting a bonus. Getting a bonus at Christmas because it's Christmas effectively says to me "We don't pay you enough so we're going to give you a lump sum and make it seem like we're being nice".
Nope. I get paid holidays though, so I guess you can kind of count that. We also get an end-of-year bonus (up to $1,500), but our fiscal year ends in February, and we don't receive it until a while after that.
I'm going to get a 13th salary (working for a federal agency in Germany), and as I'm new to the job this is going to be the first time, yay!
I do have the feeling though that while receiving a Christmas bonus was pretty common during the last decades it's gotten more unusual because of neoliberalization and is now often reserved for public service and well established and therefore unionized companies
I do have the feeling though that while receiving a Christmas bonus was pretty common during the last decades it's gotten more unusual because of neoliberalization and is now often reserved for public service and well established and therefore unionized companies
Im self employed and mostly on unemployment this year... but after almost 5 months of unemployment just not coming to me due to me accidentally logging in with a VPN and them having to 'investigate' they finally started processing new claims for me... so i guess that kinda counts?
When i worked in an office id get one, but itd be tied to how well the company as a whole did that year (which was an international company I had absolutely no way to have a say in how well it did). Was very frustrating to work my ass off and get nothing at the end of the year based completely off of our upper management's decisions for everyone else and then have us be told it was on us to do well. One of the many things that caused me to realize Id rather go freelance... and it was going well until covid :(
When i worked in an office id get one, but itd be tied to how well the company as a whole did that year (which was an international company I had absolutely no way to have a say in how well it did). Was very frustrating to work my ass off and get nothing at the end of the year based completely off of our upper management's decisions for everyone else and then have us be told it was on us to do well. One of the many things that caused me to realize Id rather go freelance... and it was going well until covid :(
