Xmas bonuses

To chip in my 2p on the teachers issue. Not everyone has what it takes to be a teacher and some have to work a lot harder at it than others; planning lessons, boning up on the subject, dealing with 'issues', etc.

My mum was a secondary teacher for 35 years. Well respected, good results, a govenor and sat on all manner of comittees and teams. She was in work at 8:15 and home after 5 every day and comitted to her students and the school. But she didn't have to spend her evenings, weekend & holidays doing additional work aside from an evening or two at a term end or the week or so beore the beginning of the new academic year. Why? Because she was experienced and talented enough not to have to plan evey lesson to the nth degree and did the majority of marking in her 'office hours' at the school.

And yea, 2 weeks at christmas, 2 weeks at easter, 3 half-term weeks and 6 weeks for the summer = 13 weeks holiday. Any teacher spending a major portion of that 'working' needs to manage their time better.
 
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Expecting another month's salary this year but I have been off long term sick (well 7 weeks or so) with a busted achilles so hoping they don't punk me on that!

However, pretty rubbish considering the company turnover will be around 2.25bn euros this year...
 
Working at a new company, very much doubt that ill be getting a bonus. Though earning 1k more a month with the overtime so cant complain :)
 
Well my appraisal went well and I'm finally getting my payrise. Still massively underpaid for what I do, but it's all experience for this coming 6months then I'll look at jumping ship to somewhere with a much better salary for the sector and guaranteed offshore time!

On the bonus front, asked in the appraisal and boss said CEo shot him down so he might give me some of his. Oh the joys of being a Project Engineer, straddling Engineering and Management, but not getting the perk from either side.

Who needs money, I get a thank you for my hard work :rolleyes::)
 
Not this year, unemployed.Looking forward to next year to get my first xmas/annaul bonus. It is based on company profits, but is typically 10-15% of the annual salary, which is nice. Would push me close to six figures (USD).
 
We don't get Christmas bonuses, but if we are in the bonus scheme then we may get a bonus at the end of Feb (I think) if results are good enough and appraisal objectives have been met. It's a six monthly thing for us which pays out in Feb and August.

All we get for Christmas is £15/head towards a team do.
 
Usually nothing but this year a very nice and reasonably big one plus a performance one due in April as well.

Happy holidays :D

Note: ocuk could be seeing the benefits of my bonus very soon. ;)
 
My company is very generous. But it does depend how well the company has done over the year, and how well the staff have performed. Last year we had a nice meal out at towcestor race course, and then a nice Chinese on the last day before Christmas.

Cash bonus last year was £5k at Christmas. 3 of us worked the whole summer doing crazy amount of overtime due to a massive amount of orders. So come August those who put in the effort were rewarded with another bonus. For me that was £3.7k. Expecting the Christmas bonus this year to be bloody amazing.
 
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gosh...You mean she has to organise, talk to people, deal with politics and work long days... Sounds like a working day to me and I don't get 13 weeks holiday a year.. or a massively inflated pension...
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Your ignorance is rather astounding. All of the described runs not only through the "working day" (during which she'll leave the house before I do, and stay in school working for two hours beyond the final bell), but also across weekends and holidays.

These fabled 13 weeks of holiday amount to maybe 3 of actual free time during which no work is done or considered.

I also don't begrudge her the so-called "massively inflated pension", as if you ask me she isn't paid nearly enough for the time she has to put in on the management side of things, let alone having to wrangle class after class of ill-behaved, foul mouthed, disrespectful and nigh on feral children like some kind of demented day care. That's also not to mention being singularly blamed when some little darlings don't manage to knuckle down and achieve passing grades, and be treated like **** on a shoe by their similarly braindead parents when she's forced to, y'know, abide by school policy and discipline them if necessary.

Of course that's not an everyday occurance as she's certainly accomplished in the classroom, but it's a job I sure as hell wouldn't want to touch with a barge pole -- "gold plated"/"gilt edged"/whatever-other-numbingly-hyperbolic-descriptor-you-wish-to-apply pension or not.

I'm just left wondering when exactly it became "cool" or popular to hate on teachers... people who provide an exceptionally valuable public service and deserve the utmost respect. Not all of them, of course -- I'm sure many are drawn to the profession through ignorant ideas of inflated wages and easy living, but the majority do it for the love of their specialism and the wish to help our children forge their futures. It's just a pity that more and more parents seem to be considering school as nothing more than free day care or a holding pen through which they don't have to care about their offspring while they complete their own working day.

It's a discussion for another thread, though. Not this one.
 
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