Christmas Bonus Time!

Pah, being self-employed nobody gives me a bonus

Originally Posted by sarah

We get nothing. But apparently the Christmas dinner that we can have in the canteen has been subsidised (by about £2).

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Blimey, that's really insulting. I think I'd prefer nothing! Which incidently is what I'm getting.

Yeah, but I'm a scummy civil servant so I prob don't deserve a bonus

Expect yourself with those nice fat benefits, claiming back VAT, paying bugger all on national insurance (unless your earning loads of cash, in which case, you don't ned a bonus )

Originally Posted by Ed

Pah, being self-employed nobody gives me a bonus

But are you giving bonuses out?

Originally Posted by Daimo

Oh, they are doing a party, for just support departments. Can't have us lower class technical folk dining with the snotty ass lawyers now can we......

Maybe the lawyers would actually like to mingle, they prolly are bored to the teeth with the sight of each other.

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

But are you giving bonuses out?

Yessir. I gave each of my team £500 and I'm paying the tax and the NI. They deserve it, they've worked hard.

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Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Hopefully getting a pay rise this week instead though, so that'll be alright

I need one of those aswell

We are currently trying to recruit urgently, I was asded if I have any friend interested........My response 'None of them would be willing to take the massive pay cut'.

Its another thing that has been promised but not until the new year.

Originally Posted by Ed

Yessir. I gave each of my team £500 and I'm paying the tax and the NI. They deserve it, they've worked hard.

Good man!
Feeling wanted is perhaps the most motivation you can ever give someone.

We've just turned a profit in our department, first year for over 25 years... so I'll be expecting those little sausages with bacon wrapped around on our christmas lunch.

Gotta say that none of the companies I've EVER worked for has given particularly good (if any) xmas bonuses ...
At Whitbreads you got a few drinks from the boss ... and all the p*ssed up xmas totty your loins could handle
At Iceland ... you got £5 vouchers ... rising to £50 of vouchers after 5 years service (but would never increase beyond that).
At a small computer consultancy I used to work for I was only there one Christmas ... and I was actually signed off work (from Nov 27th until mid-Feb), so I never even knew if there was a "xmas bonus" ... however I can't complain as having only worked for the company for 3 days they let me take my "sick leave" (following major bowel surgery) on full pay! Not only that but 11 months later when the company hit its budget targets we were given a £3,000 bonus when we SHOULD have been employed for 12 months before being entitled to ANY bonus! However we argued that a pro-rata bonus would be a better option for us because we had still made a major contribution to helping the company achieve its targets Yayyy!

These days ... no bonus though :-/

This year i get nothing, though I am getting a free meal at the Christmas meal tomorrow night, but then I deserve it as I'm dirty filthy scum for leaving the company (I imagine).