Post your christmas bonus

Will Gill said:
I got a £5k cash bonus, but this puts things in perspective:



It's amazing how things that used to be important to me now don't matter at all, money, assets, cars etc.. they are nice to have, but being alive, surrounded by friends and family is worth so much more than you can imagine when I was told I was unlikely to make it past November. Life is my bonus, sounds mega gay but it's true.

Merry xmas you filthy animals
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Absolutely. I just wishing my wife will make it through Christmas and can hopefully spend a few hours at home with the family. My bonus was finding out my cancer hadn't spread to nearby lymph nodes, so is hopefully now all gone after surgery. Still radiation and chemotherapy to go through just to be sure
 
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Diddums said:
Well my "Christmas bonus" is HMRC adjusting my tax code, meaning that this month I seemingly don't pay tax as I've received a bit more than I was expecting.

Which of course means that next month I'm gonna get absolutely bent over :p
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I got one of these as well except apparently I owe them money instead.

Merry Xmas HMRC.
 
Will Gill said:
I got a £5k cash bonus, but this puts things in perspective:



It's amazing how things that used to be important to me now don't matter at all, money, assets, cars etc.. they are nice to have, but being alive, surrounded by friends and family is worth so much more than you can imagine when I was told I was unlikely to make it past November. Life is my bonus, sounds mega gay but it's true.

Merry xmas you filthy animals
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Couldn’t agree more. Going through treatment myself (fortunately less serious than yours!) it has put things into perspective to the point I messaged my manager and said ‘I don’t give a monkeys what my bonus is’ vs previous years of obsessing over working harder and harder chasing bonus and promotions.
 
Our year end reviews + bonus happens in December anyway, so not really a Christmas bonus. Although I'm diverting all mine to pension as frankly I don't want to see a stupid amount disappearing on tax.
 
Previous place (private sector) added £50 to our December payslip. It actually showed up as £74 for me but the idea is that once the tax man took his cut, the receiver was given effectively £50. The pre-tax amount will have varied depending on level of pay but always ended up as £50 afterwards. It would have been more cost effective for Payroll to issue out Amazon vouchers or other shopping vouchers like others up-thread have received here.

Current place (NHS) gives sod all.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Previous place (private sector) added £50 to our December payslip. It actually showed up as £74 for me but the idea is that once the tax man took his cut, the receiver was given effectively £50. The pre-tax amount will have varied depending on level of pay but always ended up as £50 afterwards. It would have been more cost effective for Payroll to issue out Amazon vouchers or other shopping vouchers like others up-thread have received here.
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Idk, I'd prefer real money over the vouchers we get. EOT scheme would be even better, no tax...

What to buy with my voucher this year? USB cables? Power bank? Endless possibilities :rolleyes:
 
Hades said:
£0

No doubt this useless government will want their percentage of it too :D
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That what really annoyed me having to give about giving £*** of my bonus to my local useless government which has done nothing but destroyed the island more & more each year and forced load of people to become homeless
 
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chaparral said:
That what really annoyed me having to give about giving £300 of my bonus to my local useless government which has done nothing but destroyed the island more & more each year and forced load of people to become homeless
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Just remembered a previous bank I worked for used to expect you to not only pay for your own Christmas party but also contribute for each of your staff. They would organise it and then ask you to contribute for everyone. I'm not making this up. I refused and never went to any Christmas parties while working there. It was because it was the investment banking arm of the bank and the thinking behind it was that you paid for the staff that made you so successful your annual bonus was huge. Unfortunately I was working in IT and we didn't get those kinds of bonuses, despite the same Christmas party policy being levied on us.

I'm pleased to say my current employer puts on superb (free) Christmas parties. Well, they are an exhibitions company afterall so know how to put on an event.
 
£200, which has been the norm for the few years I've worked for current employer.

That's the most generous Xmas bonus I've had in terms of monetary value, but my favourite was the nice hamper I used to get at a small accounting practice I worked at for a couple of years.

Another small accounting practice would pool all the gifts they got from clients and have us take turns picking one until they ran out. Some nice bottles in there, usually.
 
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