Tell me about your Chirstmas Bonus

[Anonymous]

13,500. We book all of our spring break and summer vacations with this money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Me $2000
DH $110,000
We are blessed.

So the rest of us schlocks are not blessed. Sucks to be us.

Plus a million. I hate people talking about being blessed with wealth.

oh come on! $110k bonus? that is a blessing! jeez!

[Anonymous]

We had our annual reviews today which is when we're told what our bonus will be. I'm a legal secretary and my bonus is $1600. I was very pleasantly surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Me $2000
DH $110,000
We are blessed.

So the rest of us schlocks are not blessed. Sucks to be us.

Plus a million. I hate people talking about being blessed with wealth.

oh come on! $110k bonus? that is a blessing! jeez!

I'm the PP with the 500k bonus. Does that mean I've been super blessed by god? Come on. I work hard but so does the guy who lays asphalt on the street. You might even say he works harder than I do but he makes a fraction of what I make. Why have I been "blessed" in your words and he has not in a similar way? Get out of here with that pseudo religious nonsense. It's a bunch of bullshit. Opiate for the masses.

[Anonymous]

Zippo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me $2000
DH $110,000
We are blessed.

So God likes you better than everyone else? BS on this blessed nonsense.

[Anonymous]

I'm a fed. I received a performance award of $500...I'm grateful for it. Some people received nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$0! Yahoo.

Be glad. I got a pink slip for my year end bonus. I'll be unemployed on January 4.

I'm sorry, PP. I wish you well.

Thanks. Fortunately, we are much better off than many, so we are going to be okay. My wife makes about 5% less than I do, so we can cover the mortgage and the basic expenses. We have 6 months of full expenses in liquid savings, and from a previous time like this, when I was out of work for 6 months, I was able to shop more intelligently and did all the cooking and it only cost about 1/4 of our emergency savings for that six months. I'll go back into house-husband mode if I don't find a job within the next 6 weeks.

Fortunately, I've been a contractor at my agency for over 24 years and have a lot of skills that are important for the agency. I have had one interview and have another tomorrow from internal leads and I doubt I'll be unemployed for more than about 6-8 weeks at the longest. We can handle that pretty easily.

I only shared this to help those who are complaining about small bonuses put their situations into perspective, but there are probably many who will never grok that.

Happy holidays to all.

I've never heard that term before. Thanks for that, PP, and good luck with your job search. Happy holidays to you too!

[Anonymous]

I got a holiday bonus of $2,400 in 1990

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a holiday bonus of $2,400 in 1990

I think I got one as late as 1996. We had a Christmas party and everything. Ah, memories

[Anonymous]

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I only shared this to help those who are complaining about small bonuses put their situations into perspective, but there are probably many who will never grok that.

Happy holidays to all.

I've never heard that term before. Thanks for that, PP, and good luck with your job search. Happy holidays to you too!

Sorry. Science fiction geek talk. It's from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.

grok /?räk/
verb US informal
understand (something) intuitively or by empathy.
"because of all the commercials, children grok things immediately"
empathize or communicate sympathetically; establish a rapport.

[Anonymous]

Zero and Dh got zero too.

Not complaining, but just to put it in perspective that not everyone gets a bonus. We're feds and love our jobs.

[Anonymous]

PSH???? it aint 1997 guys.

[Anonymous]

I received $2,000 this year and it's the first time I've ever received one and wasn't expecting it, so am so excited!

[Anonymous]

$13K. I'm a Fed.