12-17-2010, 11:08 PM
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#81
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: calgary
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this thread is weird to me...
you get a bonus, it's like finding free money on the street, and then being disappointed you didn't find it again the next time you walk by, then complaining about it on the internet.
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12-17-2010, 11:19 PM
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#82
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kunkstyle
How is it not? Is somebody holding a gun to your head preventing you from becoming a 'professional'?
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Do you know how expensive it is for him to park his car in the Park and Ride?!?!
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12-17-2010, 11:28 PM
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#83
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
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I work in non-profit and times have been really tough the last 3-4 years with wages and hiring having been pretty much frozen. Apparently they have a small amount of cash left over this year, so for the first time that anyone I talked to can remember, we are getting a Christmas bonus.
It's not a lot (I think it will end up being quite a bit less than a weeks wages) but it is free money that will make sure I am not playing catching trying to pay my tuition in January!
I know a lady who is a personal assistant for a reasonably large company in town here and pulled in 20k for a bonus last year. That kind of stuff makes me sick.
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12-17-2010, 11:48 PM
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#84
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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I think they're cooking hot dogs on the shop floor on Christmas eve. That will be my bonus. The only time I've received any type of bonus in the last 10 years was the one year I started working for a company in September using a different software and was horribly unproductive for those 3 months. The 9 years where I probably deserved something...I got nothing. The one year I didn't deserve anything I got something. I think I'm going to slack ass it big time next year.
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12-17-2010, 11:57 PM
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#85
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: I'm right behind you
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
How does some of your guys' companies give $10k Christmas bonuses???
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Client side energy companies that deal in the base fuel/ingredients of our society?
Naw, their products wouldn't be in demand or anything.
They must be broke. 
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12-18-2010, 12:23 AM
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#86
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P of Red
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
that is why i have learned to avoid talking about salary or compensation to anyone that isn't one of my direct co-workers, in this city doing so just leaves me depressed
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Don't worry about it, money isn't everything. Although living in Calgary makes you feel that way, it's not true. Calgary has some great people, but more often than not everything becomes a dick measuring competition. Just be happy in your own life, and do what makes you happy. You will make enough money to be happy.
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12-18-2010, 09:03 AM
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#87
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Franchise Player
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15% of salary. I love my job.
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12-18-2010, 10:32 AM
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#88
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Removed by Mod
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kunkstyle
How is it not? Is somebody holding a gun to your head preventing you from becoming a 'professional'?
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He's just entitled. He is in University paid for by his Dad, and also lives at his Dad's out in DeWinton rent-free. If his grammar doesn't improve, it'll be hard for him to be taken seriously in the professional world. I'm not worried about his future though, as he is a stock picking wiz, as evidenced by his fancy car that he paid for from the proceeds of his brilliant stock pics. Pretty impressive for a teen ager. If I were him, I wouldn't be wasting my time in school, I'd be playing the markets full time.
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12-18-2010, 11:17 AM
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#89
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Conquering the world one 7-11 at a time
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The company I work for awards performance bonuses at the end of the year that average out at 10-15% of the employee's gross annual salary. Work hard, you get more. The bonus program hinges on the company meeting certain revenue targets, so two years ago at the height of the recession we got nothing. Other than that I usually make out pretty well so I con't really complain. Nothing for Christmas though, except this year they gave me a hat.
The company I worked for previously gave out year end bonuses at Christmas and mid-year bonuses in June. They were usually equal to about one pay period's salary, which at the time for me was about $1500. Not a fortune by any means, but pretty sweet for a single guy just entering the workforce.
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12-18-2010, 11:58 AM
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#90
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Lifetime Suspension
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A bonus is nice to get, but its a disgrace how the government then chops it and takes almost half. F the government you didn't work for that bonus, we did let us eat aholes.
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12-18-2010, 12:25 PM
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#91
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Removed by Mod
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeteLFan
A bonus is nice to get, but its a disgrace how the government then chops it and takes almost half. F the government you didn't work for that bonus, we did let us eat aholes.
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Wow. TMI, man, TMI.
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12-18-2010, 12:29 PM
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#92
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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Originally Posted by algernon
Wow. TMI, man, TMI.
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PeteL is the new Marie Antoinette but grosser.
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The Following User Says Thank You to Cecil Terwilliger For This Useful Post:
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12-19-2010, 11:25 PM
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#93
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First Line Centre
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The first bonus I ever received was at one of the worst jobs I ever had.
Summer going into grade 12, I worked as an apprentice welder. Hated the job, didn't know what I was thinking when I thought I wanted to be a welder... anyway, I stayed on part-time after the summer during grade 12, and when Christmas rolled around, I got a completely unexpected $500 bonus. I was thrilled. Five big ones 13 years ago for a 17 year old was a big deal.
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12-19-2010, 11:36 PM
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#94
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Lifetime Suspension
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No bonus for us, but I feel very fortunate to be employed, especially through the rough patch that was 08-09. They could have dumped one of us, it would have made sense, but they wanted to keep us for the long haul. I know a lot of people that were living day to day during that whole fiasco. Sometimes I feel I am overpaid anyway.
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12-19-2010, 11:44 PM
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#95
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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A $75 gift certificate at a local grocery store is our bonus.
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12-19-2010, 11:59 PM
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#96
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Norm!
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I've been in the workforce for about 23 years, and I had only received a christmas bonus once before I came to the company I'm with now.
The first time I got a christmas bonus was about 12 years ago at a little IT shop, we went to the christmas party and received little envelopes, in the envelopes they had placed a hundred dollar bill. Then we found out that it was a cash bar so nobody's bonus survived that night.
When I came to the company I'm at, I got called into the bosses office, here we go I thought, I'm fired, because I'm hard to get along with. But he handed me an envelope with a check equivalent to 10% of my annual salary, he thanked me for a good year and sent me back to work. When I got to my office I honestly closed my door and took a few minutes to compose myself, its nice to feel valued. But I certainly don't expect or require a bonus. I got another bigger one last year, and the bonuses come out this week, so I'm getting curious.
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12-20-2010, 02:38 AM
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#97
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Red Deer, AB
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I guess I kind of take mine for granted...
I am in no way upset with the amount I got or have been getting, but I figured it was a common practise in most business'
I have been seeing a 500 dollar increase in a bonus every year for 4 years now. I'm certainly happy with it and will start to appreciate it more now
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12-20-2010, 03:03 AM
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#98
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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How come they don't give bonuses on other holidays? Where's my Labour Day bonus, damn it!
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12-20-2010, 05:31 AM
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#99
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Edmonton, AB
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We usually get our cheque in early December, but I don't really like calling it a Christmas bonus because it involves performance of our organization and one's Branch that they work at. I prefer to call it the incentive plan cheque because that more accurately describes it.
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12-20-2010, 09:12 AM
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#100
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary
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Doesn't really count as a true bonus but just found out my company missed a weeks worth of pay back in June so now I'm getting a cheque for $2000. I was pretty happy to find that out.
Other than that we got a luggage bag, some GC's and some chocolates.
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