AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Actually, I haven’t a clue, but I’m guessing ‘not a sausage’. There has never been a formal Christmas or year-end bonus structure for our US operation, so it has been catch as catch can. Last year, I got a $25 Wal-Mart gift card, but that was an ad-hoc decision by our then-local boss.
A couple of times when it has been a particularly good year, we’ve gotten a year-end bump of roughly a weeks’ pay. The last time this happened, however, the boss who arranged the deal got screwed out of his own bonus, for unrelated reasons. This same boss has just returned to the position after a few years elsewhere, but although it has been a pretty good year, I doubt he feels much incentive any more to push for a bonus on our behalf.
We have a performance bonus usually given out after tax time, around April. It’s been inconsistent over the last few years due to the economy marketplace etc.
As for Christmas, we always get a gift of some sort. Sometimes it’s something nice-ish, 5 or 6 years ago we all got the latest iPod. Other times meh-ish, once it was a jacket with the company logo - they sent everyone the same size - didn’t really work out. The last couple of years it’s just been a $250 AMEX gift card - not bad, really.
My first year in the workforce, in 2006, I got a $20 Dillard’s gift card. That was the last bonus I saw.
I’m on the other side of the equation. We give year-end bonuses. Totally at our discretion. We figure 10% of annual salary and adjust up and down depending on our feelings about the particular employee. So, they ranged from $4,000 to $12,000 this year.
Are you hiring?
after we get done firing.