employed folks: does your employer give any kind of year-end gift?

[bertha katzenengel]

They just passed ours out. It's a Homedics Shiatsu Massaging chair cushion (for staff. Don't know yet what they gave the associates).

I am grateful for the gift and very glad to be employed.

[Hugin]

1. It's just another workday...

According to my employer.

[TX-RAT]

2. Voted no because i'm a partner in the business

We payed 11,500 dollars in Christmas bonus's, between 5 employees.

[redqueen]

3. Can I work for you?

:D

[TX-RAT]

7. Can you run lead tongs on a drilling rig?

Never mind, I've seen your picture, my crew would pay you out of their salaries.

[redqueen]

10. Awwwwwwwwww

:blush:

:loveya:

[bertha katzenengel]

5. very nice

on behalf of staff employed by a partnership - thank you!

[TX-RAT]

12. They deserve it, it's hard work.

[bikebloke]

4. Unless you count the office dinner

On the company's tab. I started skipping those. The day became too bloody long. Then I had to bike home in the cold.

[Lisa]

6. they took us out to lunch and plied us with wine ...

That was fun!

[Earth_First]

8. We have a gathering at one of our fine local pubs...

and he flips the bill. In fact our annual gathering is tomorrow evening at 6 p.m.

[SoCalDem]

9. My husband gets time off between Xmas & NY and $1K

cash..He likes that very much,.. it's his mad money:) He's an American Flyer collecter, and he likes to hunt for stuff he does;t have.. He collects the 1940-50's versions which can be pricey:)

[bleedingheart]

11. Formally - No there is no Christmas Bonus...but

my company is good to me and I get a bonus check at year end if the company is doing well and this year they bought each of my children a gift because the office carefully managed the office supply money..

[Crazy Dave]

13. I usually get $200

It used to be about three times that five years ago but with the rising insurance rates and gas prices, profit margins have decreased substantially faster than we can raise our rates without chasing off clients.

[Lady Effingbroke]

14. yes. we get to keep our jobs - unless they fire us.

[Elidor]

15. Yeah, they lay me off for a week! Yay!

Bills I can't pay! I love it. All this and poverty, too!

[NV Whino]

16. My best client

usually gives me a nice cash bonus as well as an expensive bottle of Champagne... and I mean Champagne, the French stuff... and olive oil from the ranch. This is the first year of the wine from the ranch, so maybe that instead of bubbly. Generous guy. On the other hand, I deserve it.

[tigereye]

17. I do contract work

so one place gave me a gift certificate. That was nice, more than last year.
(inflation I suppose.) And they used to give a turkey, I usually donated mine.
Otherwise I guess I treat myself, since I'm the boss of my practice. Yeah, that's it.

Husband usually gets a nice bonus, since he has the FT job.

[sbj405]

18. No. Federal employee

If we're lucky, we might get an extra hour off.

[LSK]

19. last year we got a gift card at a grocery store

[Xithras]

20. Nope.

I had an employer that used to give out $1000 bonuses. I really liked that employer, but like so many dotcoms, it's history now.

[Squatch]

21. No, they don't give...so I TAKE

I've got a crapload of pens and staplers at home.

[redqueen]

22. hahahahaha

:D

[tjdee]

23. I get a cash bonus (not huge) & I don't have to work the week after.

I like my boss a lot... we're a small outfit, though, so every now and then I wish on a star or whatever that my job will be around next year.

I thank God quite often that I have as good a job as I have, even if it's not perfect (the week after Christmas is one week of my vacation time, LOL!).

I've been thinking about how I can give my boss a secret present. Don't think it'll happen (I'm psychotically broke this year) but I sure wish I could have a secret gift delivered. I know I know, a good gift would be being a good employee! :silly:

[Crazy Dave]

27. >(I'm psychotically broke this year)

This may sound silly and old fashioned but small gifts like baked cookies mean a lot to people. I've always preferred gifts that have more thought and/or heart put into them than $$$. :)

[seaglass]

24. My previous boss gave us books from her bookcase. She

chose specific books and presented them with her explanation about why she chose them for each person. It might sound thoughtful but it actually was a little weird.

[ucmike]

25. i worked for a company that gave xmas trees every year

we also got cash bonuses, but they were predicated on profits. the last year i worked there managers on another project were convicted of fraud on a govt project (they went to jail), so there were fines and reimbursement paid by the company. of course, that came out of the bonus pool. god forbid they take that out of the company's huge profits. so my cash bonus that year, on a $35million dollar project, working 70 hours a week, was $118, down from $1100 the year before.

the xmas trees were a funny thing. the owner of the company would go to a xmas tree farm and personally oversee the cutting of 150+ christmas trees, which would then be tagged for each employee and distributed to jobsites around the state.

my first year there, one of the laborers tells me "your xmas tree is sitting in the dirt at the other job trailer. you better get it before nat sees it." i laughed and went about my business, i thought it was a joke. the following day i get a call from the project superintendent telling me that nat doesn't like to see his gifts laying in the dirt and to either pick up my tree or have someone throw it away before nat sees it. dumbfounded i asked "what tree?" and it was explained to me. so for three years i would pick up my tree, stuff it in the trunk of my company buick and drive it to my friends house. i lived in my mom's house, so we'd get a family tree and make a day of it.

i thought it was funny that nat thought it was appropriate to decide what kind of tree his employees wanted. i know our family was very picky about getting a "perfect" tree. it was even more funny to see christmas trees with tags that said "Patel", "Singh", and "Berkowitz" stacked in front of the job trailers.

[Initech]

26. We got $20 gift cards to spend at the local mall

I'm using mine to go buy season 7 of the Simpsons!

[Clintmax]

28. We get a cash bonus IF we make our sales goal...

So it all depends....

[progmom]

32. same here

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. I am self employed. But MrG gets a pretty swell basket with a fifth of

Absolute, two bottles of wine and gourmet snacks and meal fixings. They also have a big "to do" that I actually had to go buy an outfit for. At one of his old employers' he was given a book from Dayton Hudson's and he could pick out whatever gift he wanted. THAT was cool. :hi: Me, I give myself whatever myself wants...


On edit: He also gets the week between Christmas and New Year's off (automotive shut down) and his vacation and bonus checks!

[Nikia]

30. Usually, all of the above

We get a cash bonus with the first check in December. We also get some kind of gift(s) the last work day before Christmas. They don't give us paid sick days or much vacation time, but they give us holiday stuff.

[Lady President]

31. No, but at least I wasn't laid off

Instead of gifts, pink slips went out yesterday. Seven people who sit in my area were told that Dec. 31 is their last day. Their jobs are being transferred to the Mumbai office. Ho, ho, ho.

The good news is that there was enough money to give our CEO and CFO $15 million dollars each in bonuses this year. :eyes:

I'm grateful to have a job, even a demoralizing one.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

33. transferred to the Mumba..

I wonder what your boss woud do if one of those seven people said "So boss..where's the transfer form so I can fill it out?" :9

[Orsino]

34. An annual bonus...

...that I always choose to take in cash rather than stock options. It's keyed to performance in the calendar year, but we don't actually receive it until March.

[newportdadde]

35. Let me tell you what we had 5 years ago.

Five years ago the entire department of 100 people all went to a casino, had a huge lunch and were allowed the rest of the day to either gamble, go home or do whatever.

In the summer we would all go to a baseball game together.

Fast forward 5 years...

We had a 1hr lunch caterred by the cafeteria and back to work. Ow and NO FAMILY allowed.

My big 'win' this year was a 10$ gift card from a business partner I wasn't expecting. Want to know the sad thing about it? I was excited.

[RebelOne]

36. Nope, just a catered luncheon and I usually can't eat it.

I'm a vegetarian and this year it will be barbeque.