Does Your employer give employees a Christmas gift?

[Ervserver]

We have a small party ( pot luck ) and everyone gets a ham

[Christy Carol]

LOL!! this question makes me want to scream.
First off, I have mentioned I do work for the original Scrooge, right?

Well, if we have done good for the year, ie: made him money we might get a little something extra in our checks...with taxes held out. I think the most I have gotten is 125 bucks.

And the party, if you want to call it that. He uses one of the resturants he owns and then charges for drinks and food. I have never attended one but I hear he doesn't even decorate.

[GingerMel]

Well we don't get a bonus...which stinks...but we do usually get a small gift card to *his* favorite restaurant. It so happens that I don't particularly care for this restaurant...hah hah, but there's an effort.

Then my immediate supervisor gives me movie tickets, which is always cool.

[mrshfromjersey]

At my last job in NJ, we had a "employees only" hors d'oeuvres party. Sometimes a gift with the company logo was given out at the party. If you didn't go to the party, you didn't get the "gift". Usually the two big bosses would walk around and flirt with all the single "ladder climbing" women. I think that's why it was a "no spouses" party, so they could leave their wives at home and fool around with their employees.

[Ervserver]

LOL!! this question makes me want to scream.
First off, I have mentioned I do work for the original Scrooge, right?

Well, if we have done good for the year, ie: made him money we might get a little something extra in our checks...with taxes held out. I think the most I have gotten is 125 bucks.

And the party, if you want to call it that. He uses one of the resturants he owns and then charges for drinks and food. I have never attended one but I hear he doesn't even decorate.

nice..he needs some Christmas spirit

[sheepsnot]

We have a party, but the employer doesn't provide it. It's a potluck dinner. I generally supply the eggnog and desserts. One year I brought a beautiful salad my wife made, with all the good stuff that makes a salad less healthy, but no one wanted salad. They wanted carbs, baby!

Gimme gravy, for my mashed potatoes!

[Ervserver]

I'd eat a salad at Christmas if it had fudge croutons

[sheepsnot]

I ate a salad the other day and the croutons looked like they had been born noodles and rolled up into little balls then baked hard. They were tasty enough, but weird looking.

[sheepsnot]

Forgive me, but I just realized I'm swapping salad stories. I'm gonna get a candy bar and maybe harass someone to make up for it.

[Holiday]

My boss takes us & our spouses out for dinner & a night on the town! We also *normally* get a bonus & our spouses get a gift...usually a tree ornament, a candle, or some kind of Christmas decoration...being that I am the only girl that works here, I actually benefit from my spouses gift!! Lol!! My boss' wife buys the spouse gifts & since every other spouse is female, my hubby kinda gets a girly gift..but that's ok..he doesn't care - he just hands it over to me! :lol: :smile:

[sheepsnot]

Christmas is traditionally the time we find out we've been bought out again. It has happened at least three times in the last ten years. Merry Christmas, ex-employees! Christmas bonus is more accurately called severance package.

[Ervserver]

You should buy the company

[sheepsnot]

I've toyed with the idea, but poverty prevents it from happening.

[elfworks]

as a person who is self-employed..... no.

:D

xo

[Ervserver]

Poverty is rampant

[mrshamm]

I'm a SAHM but my husbands boss just throws a Christmas party.

[Ervserver]

I'm in charge of cutting the cheese at our party this year.

[mrshamm]

lol...I'm sure you'll do a great job :lol:

[dvdelf]

is there something specific you eat to do that?

[sheepsnot]

Please let me hop on this plane right before it hits the ground. We don't use the phrase "cutting the cheese" in public. So blue collar. We "sever the cheddar." 8)

[GingerMel]

Actually...I used to work for this Biotech company down in Huntsville. The guy who ran it was so awesome. He really knew how to treat his employees...let me tell you.

He threw a Christmas party every year, with tons and tons of food and wine, plus a full bar. It was awesome! It was even formal, so you had to come dressed in your finest. It always felt very old school but awesome.

[Ervserver]

Sounds like my kind of boss except the dressing up part. I don't like to spill clam dip on my good suit.

[GingerMel]

Yeah he was really really cool. I kicked myself for like two years for leaving that company to go to graduate school, then they got bought out and shut down...and I was glad that I left.

[Ervserver]

If I were an employer I'd give fruit baskets

[silver bells]

The hospital feeds us a holiday meal if you are lucky enough to be working the night that they have it. It falls somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And if you are part of the staff that is working on the holiday, they have something free to eat in the cafeteria on the Eve on the holiday. My nurse manager usually gives us charge nurses something little at Christmas like a calendar or a jar cookie. One year we got a Christmas pen. I still use it during Christmas! :)

[GingerMel]

I love fruit baskets.

When I worked at Target around the holidays they would decorate the break room and if it was any kind of holiday they'd buy us a bunch of food and give us free lunch/snacks. It was a really small gesture, but I totally appreciated it (having worked at fast food restaurants mostly before that). This was like 10 years ago though, so I don't know what they do now.

[kgstyles]

where I work at they throw a party with a whole bunch of expensive giveaways and they also have a secret santa thing. But you can't just buy the person anything. It has to be a bottle of liquer or pop if they don't drink.

[Ervserver]

what about eggnog?

[kgstyles]

i suppose so. but nobody ever has received that as a gift. i'm going to bring that up this year. Thanks for the idea!

[Ervserver]

a decorative decanter