Work Christmas Bonus

Don't get a bean. The population of ireland are a scabby bunch who even begrudge me getting back what was taken from me in 2010, never mind the 5 euro a week increase I got in October

€150 one4all voucher and two days additional annual leave in lieu of a Christmas party. Will also get bonus in April which is personal and company performance based.

Got a hamper delivered today, Wasn't expecting it, so nice surprise. Looked it up & cost price was €49.

Texted my boss to let him know I got it & put in my thanks for the company & he told me the company didn't pay for it. He did, out of his own pocket. He manages a team of 15 & got each of us a hamper.

Company apparently said there's be no bonuses this year (again), there's no xmas party for the second year in a row & they still haven't paid for anything to do with work from home (asked us what else did we need apart from out laptops as they already had screens, keyboards & trackpads).

I happen to know someone that worked in Dublin bus maintenance that was originally refused their bonus because some twat of a colleague came in when they had covid symptoms and was waiting on the test results (positive) and therefore the other work colleagues close to the twat had to isolate and Dublin bus then said oh look you were out these days as they marked them as sick when 1. It was not of their making and 2. They were not sick. In fact DB could of been held accountable as they knew the twat was waiting on result. The union had to get involved in the end.

A lot of people would prefer a guaranteed job and pension for life over a Christmas bonus.

We got a 10 euro Amazon voucher last year. Nothing this year

If you get sent a Digital Voucher from your employer, like I did, then you have to use the App! You can eventually get a physical card from it, but your first port of call is you have to redeem it on the App. Spent half an hour this evening trying to get my €500 voucher to work, but their poxy App kept timing out when I tried to enter the verification code.

Absolute bunch of Cowboys. The App on the Play store has a rating of 1.3 out of 5, just review after review of people complaining of issues with it. I work for a very large company and we spent well over 1 million euro on One4All vouchers this year, you'd think they might be able to get their poxy app to work.

I'm going to ring them tomorrow, however my expectations are low (had an issue last year also, where I had it set up to work with Google Pay, which worked a few times and just just stopped working for no reason, eventually they sent me a physical card because they weren't able to get to the back of it). I'm really tempted to go to Trading Standards about them. Every year is such a ballache trying to get the bloody thing working.

Whether you get a digital voucher or the physical card, you can use a One4All voucher to pay funds onto a Revolut card. Needs to be done €50 at a time, but over a €500 One4All can be done in 10 minutes and then you've whatever the balance is on a prepaid debit card to use as you please.

Google it and you should be able to find the how to.

My OH had €250 from work she wanted to use in Arnotts during the summer, but because it was a digital voucher there was a €50 limit for online use and they couldn't process it in store.

Managed to pay it all onto her Revolut card in 5 transactions of €50, and used Revolut to pay in store

50 quid one4all voucher. Same as last year. I'll buy my in-laws Christmas present with it.

Civil servant so no bonus but locally got a day and a half off to use over Christmas time.

Usually managers will buy a few rounds after our Christmas lunch. Some managers will buy bottles of drink (wine/baileys etc) as a thank you. Both are from their own pockets.

No bonus this year or last. It's based on company, department & region hitting targets. So even though both department & region exceeded targets both years because the US dragged the company down nobody gets anything.

That’s the way it should be. The company should always come first and if the company is doing well, then you get a bonus.

a bonus is by its very definition, not guaranteed and an extra.

Most years we get something.

You get complacent and expect it come December.

No sign of it this year yet, not even a hamper in lieu of the xmas party.

Last year there was a Hamper, it was sh!t but it was better then pretending to be friends with all your work colleagues for one night.

I was happy with it, then on top of that we got a Perx giftcard for €350.

Last year I was expecting nothing as Covid made sh!t of our business.

We don't get bonuses, so the little bit at xmas is awesome!

End of the financial year which is March/April for me. It's performance based and has been a nice amount the last few years but I put it straight into the pension (very rock and roll!), which I neglected in my younger years.

EDIT: Oh I just remembered, because we're all WFH these days, last xmas they did send a little bottle of champers and a BIG tinned panettone out to the house. Both went down well!