Companies and Christmas Bonuses

[Bailey Guns]

I've never worked for a company/employer that gave a Christmas bonus. Sometimes there were small perks like leaving early, a meal brought into work, etc... But not an official bonus.

I work at a job now that was meant to be seasonal...just something to do over the winter months. I managed to Forrest Gump my way into a full-time position. This year the full-time employees were told we'd get a ham or turkey for Christmas. I know...not much. But I thought it was a nice gesture anyway.

But then, a few days before Christmas we got letters from HQ that announced that due to the outstanding performance of the company, attributed to the employees, we were getting an additional stock contribution to our employee stock accounts equal to 5% of our annual salary. That was a pretty substantial amount. I've never received anything like this and I thought it was a great Christmas bonus.

I hadn't intended to work for this company too long but I'm definitely rethinking that. Even though it's not the best pay I've ever received it's by far the best employer I've ever had.

I feel blessed to have a job I like with a great company considering some of the misfortune I hear people having to endure, especially at Christmas.

Anyone else?

ETA: Not to mention, I now get the holidays off, with pay.