Google cancels staff Christmas bonus...but gives them a free G1 phone!

A bonus is just that, its not a right or they would just put it in your annual pay and not call it a bonus. If your company has done well then you get a bonus and if it has done really well you might get a bigger bonus. Thus it stands to reason that if you havn't done well then you would get a smaller one.

I think that what they did is a good idea. More people with their phone and they have given a gift to their employees that is worth much more to the employee than it cost google to give.

They should think themselves damn lucky to be getting any bonus.
 
NathanE said:
So basically they gave them a bunch of phones from their stock which haven't sold all year? :D
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Pretty much!

And as stated by others, I think it's fair that they at least got something. Many companies give you absolutely nothing, maybe a pat on the back if you're lucky.
 
dalin80 said:
no it is well paid, anyone could very comfortably live off that easily. hell its 10k a year more then what iam on as a full time worker.
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Just because you don't earn the national average doesn't mean that the figure I quoted is not the average. Most people have dependants, so whereas you can live "well" on the national average, a family could not.
 
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Is that average earnings or average salary?

Earnings will of course be higher, and if it is salary there'll be a lot of people missing that aren't paid by salary. IE, BK/McD's staff AFAIK get paid weekly or bi-weekly according to the hours they work, rather than salary.

Of course, you can always revert to the adage lies, damn lies and statistics :)
 
They're entitled to give whatever they like as a bonus. If it's a spontaneous bonus rather than a contracted one based on performance, or other such, they can give whatever they like. Most people get no bonus, so if you get a snazzy new phone, you've no right to complain.

I don't see how this is even newsworthy.
 
Gilly said:
Earnings will of course be higher, and if it is salary there'll be a lot of people missing that aren't paid by salary. IE, BK/McD's staff AFAIK get paid weekly or bi-weekly according to the hours they work, rather than salary.
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You can be salaried and paid weekly, bi-weekly or whatever. McJobs and such are employed 'full time' and/or on 'contractual' basis, so they are indeed covered.

Of course, you can always revert to the adage lies, damn lies and statistics :)
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Absolutely
 
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