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How much Xmas bonus have you received?
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and our pay rise that was due in August still hasn't been sorted and will more than likely be well below inflation!!
Pay Rise? What are they?
Nothing in 4 years
I don't know yet, will know next week. Hopefully more than last year, I think I got over $1000 last year, don't remember. He just bought a Ferrari too, I hope he lets me drive it.
Awarding bonuses is a large part of my job, and I'm suprised many here don't seem to get a Christmas/Year-end/annual bonus.
My company views the annual bonus as a way of rewarding employees for the effort they have put forth during the year, and tries to tie the amount directly to their performance evaluations. (Bonuses just happen to be paid out just before Christmas ... today is the day this year! ) This practice is quite common in the financial industry I work in.
If you don't get an annual bonus do you get some sort of commission or quarterly incentives?
My company views the annual bonus as a way of rewarding employees for the effort they have put forth during the year, and tries to tie the amount directly to their performance evaluations. (Bonuses just happen to be paid out just before Christmas ... today is the day this year!
) This practice is quite common in the financial industry I work in.If you don't get an annual bonus do you get some sort of commission or quarterly incentives?
Well ... I guess you got to hang the stocking off of something!I misread the title as boners.
Awarding bonuses is a large part of my job, and I'm suprised many here don't seem to get a Christmas/Year-end/annual bonus.
My company views the annual bonus as a way of rewarding employees for the effort they have put forth during the year, and tries to tie the amount directly to their performance evaluations. (Bonuses just happen to be paid out just before Christmas ... today is the day this year!
If you don't get an annual bonus do you get some sort of commission or quarterly incentives?
Well ... I guess you got to hang the stocking off of something!
Where do you work? In the US? That can't be possible!
Look man, do anything in the creative/design industry and see what kind of cash you get. They consider us lucky to have jobs, we're artists you know. No- there are no "incentives" or bonuses, hard as that may be for you to believe. And a lot of us work nights and weekends. Don't even ask if there's overtime because there isn't. Am I bitter? YES. 
No. He prefers to screw the workforce and laugh about it with the other shareholders come dividend time
roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is bad. Why don't you look for a better position? Even my crappy previous job had commissions, Xmas bonus, and small annual raise every year.Pay Rise? What are they?
Nothing in 4 years
Where do you work? In the US? That can't be possible!
I heard creative industry (which can cover many fields such as advertising, public relations, graphic studios, and etc) is a cut-throat and it is difficult to make it to the top. I think that was the reason I went for marketing/sales field which can be evaluated by hard number (ie. revenues or profits generated). But, I am interested in design and graphic art fields; so I make the marketing and promo materials myself using CS2. That helped me to be "resourceful" to the company which translates into a bonus or raise every year.
So winning new business should count too, right? I have stayed literally overnight to get new business for my company, only to win it and see nothing for it.
BTW- that was a really insulting post. I don't know that you understand what I'm talking about. You're talking about what I do on a daily basis.
I had this discussion with a friend who's just become a partner in a law firm. For those that don't know, my field is technical, basically IT related. She was complaining that her IT staff were above themselves since they don't contribute to the bottom line of the company. I pointed out that without all the support lawyers get, both from IT and other admin roles within the firm, the lawyers wouldn't be able to get as much done and the bottom line of the partnership would suffer as a result. Everyone has their place in the machine, and it shouldn't only be the direct income-earners that benefit when the firm does well (in your case the sales guys, in hers, the partners).
However, she replied that IT were very well paid for being "just support" which missed the point of what I was trying to say, so I think we've already lost her to the dark side on the issue.
I did get a bonus plus one whole extra holiday next year! But since I'm quitting my job next year to become a 'smelly backpacker' for as long as my savings last, the extra holiday isn't that great!
Asia, Australia and the US, ready or not...
That's the problem with IT. They don't put their true worth across in pure business terms.
You're absolutely correct to point out that without the IT support, receptionists, admin and so on, no law firm would be succesful.
There is no insult intended at all. Your post earlier in this thread gave me some insight on tough competition in art-related fields. I was not referring to your particular position; I was just commenting on the career in the art-related field as it seems it is very intense in terms of competition and work schedule.
I just read the news story Morgan Stanley CEO, John Mack, got a $40 million bonus for this year. I am in the totally wrong industry.........
Where do you work? In the US? That can't be possible!
Sorry to hear that. I happen to to have the same job description as you... and I just got a nice healthy bonus yesterday. We also get a commission on any new leads that turn into paying clients. I get about 16 days off plus holidays.
We'd hire you but that mask is scaring me.
Sorry to hear that. I happen to to have the same job description as you... and I just got a nice healthy bonus yesterday. We also get a commission on any new leads that turn into paying clients. I get about 16 days off plus holidays.
We'd hire you but that mask is scaring me.
Haha! Well prepare to be even more scared, that's just my face with paint on it.
Where do you work?
As a student, my Christmas bonus comes in the form of a $1700 bill...
And while the company I intern for keeps talking about the size of the Christmas bonus, and not knowing exactly what it will be yet, I'm positive the interns will see none of it. But I'm happy that at least my major (CS) has the possibility for paid internships
And while the company I intern for keeps talking about the size of the Christmas bonus, and not knowing exactly what it will be yet, I'm positive the interns will see none of it. But I'm happy that at least my major (CS) has the possibility for paid internships
He probably meant "where int he country/world" as his description of work and pay is pretty much all I've heard of as the norm here in the states. Perhaps the larger 10 cities in the US get some good firms going...
I'd be interested in whether different countries have it better...
I am in my first job and got about 500 euros for xmas bonus, have been working there for only 6 months .
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I work for an ad agency as a Production Manager/Creative Director and my bonus this year was around $4,000. The amount usually depends on how well we as a company did that year. This year was a decent year not a great year.