Should you expect a christmas bonus?

fleet_admiral · 17-12-2018 9:40pm

I'm only in my current job since May after being in the previous one for 14 years (both pubs). My new employer is an absolute gent. He is paying me an extra week this week and told me to order my turkey and ham from our butcher, on him. That's more than I was given in all those years in the last place

JohnnyFlash · 17-12-2018 9:43pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

Weren't you here last week saying you'd never rent to Irish people as they are wasters. Foreigners only for your fancy apartment

Now your Eastern european employees are no good either

More bitterness in ya than a taxi driver :pac:

No, my employees are great. I like them and they like me. They just aren’t getting a bonus as they don’t do anything that would make them worthy of a bonus. Doing the same as loads of other employers. They’ve a good work ethic actually. I couldn’t find Irish lads to do the work I’d say.

Degag · 17-12-2018 9:48pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

No, my employees are great. I like them and they like me.

The lads who work for me are very much manual labour grunts. The majority of them are Eastern European, as thick as two short planks, and have serious issues with alcohol consumption.

and turn a blind eye to the fact that some of them are barely functioning alcoholics.

Right.

nthclare · 17-12-2018 9:54pm

My Christmas bonus will be around 20 bags of blocks.

I purposely ringed them to bring them home, put each and every one up on the big block,I'll chop them Saturday.

Nothing more pleasurable than splitting block's with a New York fireman's axe a few days before Christmas.

Roll up the sleeves and off I go....ho ho ho

blackcard · 17-12-2018 9:56pm

Spent half my working life in the private sector, generally got 1-2 weeks wages as a bonus. One exceptional year when I got 25% of my annual salary. Never got 1 cent in the public sector.

CIP4 · 17-12-2018 10:04pm

Get an annual bonus but it’s paid in March every year and is dependent on company, department and personal performance but is generally a sizable amount. Don’t get anything special in December just normal pay thinking about it now would be better to get the bonus paid in December or January.

jamesbere · 17-12-2018 10:07pm

We get a 100 euro one tor all voucher. But also all employees get paid a bonus every march

jamesbere · 17-12-2018 10:07pm

CIP4 wrote: »

Get an annual bonus but it’s paid in March every year and is dependent on company, department and personal performance but is generally a sizable amount. Don’t get anything special in December just normal pay thinking about it now would be better to get the bonus paid in December or January.

Yeah same here

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 17-12-2018 10:32pm

Truckermal wrote: »

Just so you know any time Johnny is involved in a thread on Boards Pintman Paddy suddenly arrives to thank his posts and back him up and vice versa....

Yup, noticed that.

Rezident · 17-12-2018 10:32pm

I've never gotten a bonus but that's the public sector for you, I think you have to very high-up and already-overpaid to get a bonus.

My missus works for a pharmaceutical company, when she is raging against the public sector, the issue of bonuses never comes up. Sectors like finance and Pharma etc. can and do pay massive bonuses.

I suppose it's easy to pay bonuses when you don't pay tax and you're a drug dealer.

The Rape of Lucretia · 17-12-2018 10:39pm

blackcard wrote: »

Never got 1 cent in the public sector.

Rezident wrote: »

I've never gotten a bonus but that's the public sector for you

Wha ? Every week is bonus week in the public sector.

Autosport · 17-12-2018 11:42pm

Yeah I receive a Christmas bonus every year

Christmas party/dinner is all paid for by the company

17-12-2018 11:44pm

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Wha ? Every week is bonus week in the public sector.

when your in the lower rungs, It really isn't great

funkey_monkey · 17-12-2018 11:55pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Or the individual concerned could have refrained from asking a question that was irrelevant. Works both ways.

Or you could have refrained from smugly using the word 'substantial' in your post. But you didn't. It was also irrelevant.

lashes34 · 18-12-2018 12:04am

We get a weeks wages and up to €500 can be paid as a voucher so tax free. Christmas party paid for along with a free bar. Still a crappy place to work.

EPAndlee · 23-12-2018 9:40pm

I normally get one of those pre paid credit cards and just transfer the money to myself using PayPal

NSAman · 23-12-2018 9:44pm

Personally, I never get a bonus, I give them....;)

aaakev · 23-12-2018 9:47pm

Everyone in my company gets a bonus, they start at €200 all4one voucher for the lowest level ie apprentices and go up to €500 all4one along with a few grand in the wages for highest level. They are very good with it, we get it every year along with some bonuses during the year if performance is good

Sir Oxman · 23-12-2018 9:48pm

titan18 wrote: »

The dole get one, so yes, I think people who are actually working should get one.

Wrong.
JSB don't (ie, the recentl.y unemployed)

Dakota Dan · 23-12-2018 9:50pm

I usually get a €300 bonus from dairygold as a dairy farmer but as JFK once said the farmer is the only man in our economy that buys at retail sells at wholesale and pays freight both ways. So I guess they can well afford it.