WHAT is your employer giving u 4 CHRISTMAS?

[J.J.]

Uh, nothing but the pleasure of working 12/24/07 thru 1/11/08 without a single day off.   
Yeah, I'm bitter. 

[agassi]

usually about 100 dollars

[andrew]

I'm self-employed and gave myself a bonus.   I will take a few days off unpaid, though ....

[danyroo]

Nothing for me.. usually my boss who's in toronto since we are 13hr away.. will pay a souper for me and my wife. but this year Nothing.. ah well.. hey life  goes on.

[Bald_freak]

I'm in third place on a waiting list for a Wii, If I get one before X mas I could care less what my company doles out.

[BALDANDRE]

Just found out during my Cali trip that's LOTS (about half of an 1800 + employee company) of my former coworkers are getting the boot during this season and a couple months ago!

Merry Christmas, huh?!

Talk about timing and bailing before the ship sinks!

[JDog]

Just found out during my Cali trip that's LOTS (about half of an 1800 + employee company) of my former coworkers are getting the boot during this season and a couple months ago!

Merry Christmas, huh?!

Talk about timing and bailing before the ship sinks!

Yeah my company just laid off 40 people and cut some employee target bonuses. However the board of directors all got a nice pay increase. That is what happens when your company goes to bed with a corporation.

[SLYinKC]

Yeah my company just laid off 40 people and cut some employee target bonuses. However the board of directors all got a nice pay increase. That is what happens when your company goes to bed with a corporation.

Same thing happened to me back in 2001.  The company I was working for eliminated my job in a downsizing on December 15th.  Merry Christmas.  The only severance was a weeks pay for every year that you'd worked for them and I had to sign an agreement to not persue any legal action to get that.  It seems the bigger the company, the less humane and friendly they are towards their employees.  It really shows in the way they handle difficult times.

[Josh_ua]

Well since I am going to college full time, I get FIVE DAYS OFF FOR XMAS! ZOMG! HOLY COW! ...A$$holes

That sucks hard SHDWWLK, I get 2+ weeks off from school. I feel for you.

I have a position in the residence I live in, and as a thank you for our last day of work this semester they made us breakfast. Hah! It was good though, hit the old spot. 

[Bald_freak]

seems to be a trend: corporations lay off people before the holidays, and retail shortly after. I worked a the now defunked K's Merchandise for a little bit. A buddy and I broke store sales records during the holiday season. Our reward, cut our hours 50% by the second week of Jan.

[PORKY]

I always heard, "NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED"

[Bald_freak]

I'm in third place on a waiting list for a Wii, If I get one before X mas I could care less what my company doles out.

By dumb luck I scored our Wii today!!! went to wally world on my lunch got on the waiting list. Left work an hour early. 20 minutes after I walk into the door they call my name. you only got one if you were on the list and present when they arrived. I was #11, one woman left the store for 15 min. and lost her spot. 16 were given out all together.

....work gave my wife and I 25 dollar gift cards, and she landed an extra 20 for getting the most Toys for Tots donations. over $450. Even though I don't agree with the way our company selected the toys, I'm still proud of her. What sucked most is when we dropped the toys of at the Marine base. They didn't show an ounce of gratitude. Not even a half ass thank you. It was worth the trip watching my boss almost fall flat on his face checking out a marine lady he thought was cute.



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