The office Christmas (holiday?) party!

[CrackRabbit]

I think I got a christmas card.
The bonus this year is I don't have to work on Christmas day.

 

[animalia]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: animalia

It encourages people to work hard and keeps their spirits up.

So does the threat of losing their jobs due to poor spirits and lazy work ethics.

I kinda thought the same thing. Other than your weekly paycheck, how much incentive do you need to work hard?

Hmmmm actually poor spirits and poor ethics would make employees want to leave and do a worse job. The last place I worked was a miserable place because the owner was a terrible person. No one got the job done correctly. The place I work at now the owners are great and everyone is in generally good spirits. They also gave out visa gift cards yesterday.

 

[electricJ]

We don't get our yearly performance bonuses until March for this past year and didn't have a Christmas party of ANY sorts.

 

[pontifex]

no party but we did have a potluck lunch on thursday. got to leave early on friday.
got a ham, $100 bonus, and a hoodie sweatshirt thing.

 

[Bootprint]

Got bonus.
No Party.
And the 5 dollars they were going to spend on crap for us, they said they were going to donate instead this year.

 

[Killerme33]

Owners gave me a $10 gift card....to the place I work.

 

[2canSAM]

$1500 Christmas Bonus. We usually get quarterly bonuses as well. I work in IT and the owner of the company I work for is very generous when business is good.

 

[UNCjigga]

Thanks to our wacky fiscal reporting schedule, we don't get our bonuses until the end of January--but that's right in time for tax season!

 

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

Got my Christmas Bonus $2500
Bottle of Argentinan Wine
2 Turkeys
and a stolen car for christmas

Ohh boy do I feel the love

 

[akshatp]

Our year end performance bonuses arent given out until February, so I dont know yet. Although I doubt it will be anything near the $14k I got from Merrill Lynch a few years ago...

 

[HomeAppraiser]

<-- Self employed so none.

I'm with Boomer on the rest. Before I went on my own I worked for various county governments and it was like pulling teeth to get a decent salary, forget about any bonuses. I had one department head that was pretty cool. He traveled a lot and picked up swag throughout the year from conventions, also companies would send him gifts 'bribes' that he would regift to his employees. He was making only slightly more than the rest of us public employees, but it was nice that he thought of us.

 

[kalster]

i won a psp kit (psp, 1gb ms duo, 2 games, 1 movie)

bonuses will be in feb

 

[Triforceofcourage]

This is my second year in the real world as an accountant and my second year I received an annual bonus worth two months salary

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Jelly of the Month club. The gift that keeps on giving all year long.