Your worst xmas bonus

Timberrrrrrrr · 2015-12-09 13:38:59

Talking about bonuses today on the lunch break and it made me think about my worse one ever. 17 years old working on a golf course, Usually a list used to go up in the club house and members would donate money towards an xmas bonus fund for the ground staff. This had been going on for over 20 years but this one year…

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#62 09-12-2015 06:32PM

howamidifferent

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Company I work in used to give an extra months salary at x-mas to all staff as a bonus. Twas great until the recession hit then 15 years of custom died.

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#63 09-12-2015 06:33PM

sadie06

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I've told this one on here before (probably last year) but two friends of mine worked at Virgin Megastore for a few years nearly 20 years ago. The bonus was always very poor, but one year they were given a signed copy of Richard Branson's autobiography as their Christmas bonus.

Beat that!

Edit: I just did a quick google to fact check the above, and found further evidence of the sheer stinginess of it. A guy recounts how the copies of the book had no bar code on the back so they could not be returned for cash.

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#64 09-12-2015 06:46PM

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One of the few perks of the Private Sector.

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#65 09-12-2015 06:49PM

namloc1980

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Never got a Christmas bonus/gift or anything of the kind. Haven't even had a payrise since 2008 due to recession

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