Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 4:21 pm: | |
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/0 4/pf/holiday_work_bonus/index. htm?postversion=2006120509 No bonus for me. Not sure on the days off. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 728 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 6:57 pm: | |
Used to get a bonus years ago but they cut it. 3 days off, used to be 4. They have a fairly nice x-mas party I've heard, but I don't go. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 1776 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:07 pm: | |
Two paid holidays (Dec 25 and 26 this year since Christmas Eve is on Sunday). We have a pretty liberal vacation plan plus 2 flexible holidays each year so the majority of our employees are out for the last two weeks of the year. (I'm out beginning Dec 20 through the end of the year using up my remaining vacation days. Plus I've got 3 days off before the 20th to take or lose.) In addition, each employee receives holiday lunch in the company cafeteria, a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate, plus two free company products (worth $35 or so, and which are generally appreciated by employees). (Message edited by Kathleen on December 06, 2006) |
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 209 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:29 pm: | |
I remember as a kid, our gifts were a reflection on the size of my Dad's bonus. Small or no bonus=small gifts. Bigger bonus, bigger gifts. He received it in the middle of the month, then my mom immediately went to do the Christmas shopping. No credit cards for them back then. Cash only, from the bonus. This probably wouldn't work today. |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 490 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:34 pm: | |
Two paid holidays and no bonus. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 66 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:46 pm: | |
My company has a "bonus payout dinner" usually in the middle of January, helps with the post Xmas bills! It's a casual affair, held in the building lunchroom after work. For 2005, every employee got a bonus of 5% of their gross annual pay. That's the biggest bonus I've ever received. I'm crossing my fingers for it this year! Some people get even more bonuses for going beyond their goal. That's pretty generous I'd say. Also, we have a formal Christmas dinner the first Saturday in December every year. However, since they stopped the open bar, I no longer go. :-) As far as holidays go, we are scheduled to have 8 holidays off every year, as well as 2 "floating holidays" to use at your leisure. Since Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve both fall on a Sunday this year, we got 2 extra floating holidays. |
Brandon48202 Member Username: Brandon48202
Post Number: 130 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:47 pm: | |
We are each getting 2 cookies with green and red sprinkles. We are getting the 25 and 26th off. |
Imperfectly Member Username: Imperfectly
Post Number: 162 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 11:14 pm: | |
My employer is pretty good, they take us out to dinner, we get a gift card to somerset, and the week off after xmas. The week off isnt paid...I work on commission but I dont care I make enough money the week of Christmas it doesnt really matter. |
Mudflap Member Username: Mudflap
Post Number: 188 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 8:20 am: | |
Brandon, do you know how big the cookies are going to be this year? |
Goat Member Username: Goat
Post Number: 9029 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 11:50 am: | |
I used to get a turkey (actually a $30.00 voucher) but ever since the Yanks came over to head our company they have tried to nickel and dime the workers to death. Economics 101 states you can't nickel and dime a company to prosperity. Anyhoo, no Christmas "bonus" this year. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 68 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 12:08 am: | |
I also used to work at Arbor Drugs from 1990-1996. Our Christmas "bonus" was a deli tray for each store. Woo hoo. |
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 835 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 10:06 am: | |
My employer just laid people off. Ho Ho Ho! |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 396 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 2:22 pm: | |
I second that! This time of year is the favored time of year for large companies to axe people. As the budgets for the new year will have monies to pay the laid off people. Guess who gets to divvy that up? |
Detroitrulez Member Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 29 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 5:44 pm: | |
I once worked at a Meijer when I was a sophomore in HS....our grocery manager gave me one of those canned hams, with a little key to open it. Not a policy but more as a joke. I kept it for along time and it started to swell up...we were going to blow it up with some M80's but were concerned about shrapnel, so we tied the M80 to it and threw it in the lake.....it was pretty much anticlimactic. |
Brandon48202 Member Username: Brandon48202
Post Number: 131 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 9:07 pm: | |
You should have thrown it through your manager's home window with an M80 on it. That would have been a lot better. |
Bobj Member Username: Bobj
Post Number: 1602 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 12:26 am: | |
We don't really get anything - most floors/depts have potlucks which are employee funded. |
Miketoronto Member Username: Miketoronto
Post Number: 392 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:52 pm: | |
Don't get me started on Christmas and the workplace. My company does nothing, and ontop of that is forcing us to work every single day during the holiday. So I have to work Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day. And the hours are so stupid I miss family dinner on all four days. Christmas Day is not written in stone yet, but it looks like night be forced, so I included it. And I work for the government. I am so friggen mad, its not even funny. No bonus, no nothing, and not evein one of those days off. |
Sticks Member Username: Sticks
Post Number: 155 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 3:09 am: | |
I actually attended my employers holiday party earlier this evening (couldn't drink too much, had to drive home then head out to some bars). They don't really monitor the drinking when the vodka-cranberries are 80-20 and a whiskey straight-up is at least 4 to 5 single shots. |
Scottr Member Username: Scottr
Post Number: 98 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 4:37 pm: | |
no bonuses at this place, in fact, my employer is laying off about 1/3 of our workforce in the weeks before christmas (including myself). however, although they aren't required to, they are still paying us our 6 days of holiday pay for the week between christmas and new years. i guess it really isn't their fault - we lost a lot of work this month, it wasn't just rampant cost cutting. still sucks that it's right before christmas, not to mention, in a market with virtually no jobs. |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2920 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 5:01 pm: | |
quote:So I have to work Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day. And the hours are so stupid I miss family dinner on all four days. Christmas Day is not written in stone yet, but it looks like night be forced, so I included it. And I work for the government. I am so friggen mad, its not even funny. No bonus, no nothing, and not evein one of those days off."
Boo-Hoo! Try doing it for 20 frickin years in a row and I might listen. Oh yeah, when you're done with your shift on Christmas Eve, instead of going home to your own cozy bed, go check-in to an empty hotel in an industrial park a few hundred miles away, then we'll talk. |
Andysrc Member Username: Andysrc
Post Number: 146 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 5:12 pm: | |
We usually get a bonus roughly equal to 2% of our annual salary. There's a fancy holiday party somewhere in Detroit next Thursday. This year we're off 12/22 - 1/1. It's pretty nice. A few years ago we actually had two full weeks off. |
Track75
Member Username: Track75
Post Number: 2460 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 11:34 pm: | |
Merry Christmas, MikeM. Umm... be of good cheer? |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 1549 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 11:59 pm: | |
no bonus, no dinner, no gifting, Christmas Day and New Year's Day off (unpaid) unless you volunteer to work (time and a half if you do) (Message edited by lilpup on December 10, 2006) |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2922 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 11:22 am: | |
Thanks Track Sorry to not address the topic...after working years at a large corporation with no bonus, now that we are bankrupt, I get $50 for working Christmas Day and New Year's Day. My first job in my industry was working for a sole proprietor: Christmas bonus $500 (about 3 weeks wages back then) and a season pass to the local ski hill, and I didn't have to work Christmas day to get it! |
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 102 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 12:22 pm: | |
wow, what line of work? |