I don't know if businesses do it now. But what was your best or worst Christmas bonus. Mine was a silver dollar for

[debm55]

day I worked AND a 20 lb turkey. It was from a factory in State College. PA. How about you? This was in 1976. My worst was a blender from a school. Some teachers found out that it was bought at and returned them . This was before Wal-Mart had you bring in receipts. I regifted mine.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Never got a Christmas bonus. I worked for IBM and did receive bonuses for exemplary service to customers.

[debm55]

2. Thank you very much for sharing with us sinkingfeeling. I factory was not a major one. That was so exciting to me as a

21 year old.

[Ferryboat]

3. Tug and barge company in the 80's

Gave the 6 members of the AK crew 5k each. It made up for extremely long days and the low daily rate of pay.

Working every high tide bringing a freight barge into or out from a dock
4 months with rarely a day off.

[debm55]

4. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Ferryboat

[TBA]

5. Have to share this...

I once worked for a small family owned company run by a husband and wife who were ultra religious (Pentecostal Holiness types). For Christmas, they gave us each a Claxton fruitcake. Not the family sized one, but the little ones. Back then it probably cost about a buck fifty. They likely gifted they entire staff for less that a hundred.

Cheap bastards.

[debm55]

7. That is sad. I agree they were cheap shits, TBA

[displacedvermoter]

6. Christmas tips on my paper route

One man gave a $50 each year for like a $3.50 weekly payment and said keep the change.

I had that same route from sixth grade through high school.

[debm55]

8. Thank you very much much for sharing with us. displacedvermoter.

[WestMichRad]

9. Worst:

I worked for a company for about 20 years that always paid us generous Christmas bonuses. It was acquired by a corporate behemoth- a name that nearly everyone knows- and when Christmas season came, despite earning literally more than a billion dollars a year, they informed us that they don’t give out Christmas bonuses. More for the corporate executives, I guess. Miserly bastards!

[debm55]

10. WOW. That's cheap. Sorry that happened to you WestMichRad.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Back In Tge Late 80s...

...I got a Christmas bonus equal to nearly 4% of my yearly salary.
They quit doing Christmas bonuses a few years later, but all the annual bonuses for company/division/department objection had the tiers raised. So, almost everyone still got the same total bonus money.
Those that didn't probably had they're departments consolidated. We absorbed one R&D department into ours in the mid 90s. After having that staff now working for me, I understood why they were considered unnecessary.

[debm55]

12. Great post ProfessorGAC

[OldBaldy1701E]

13. My best was a $400 bonus from the boss.

The worst was a handful of crappy candy and a little plastic toy that broke the moment I used it.

And yes, that was at a school as well. I am seeing a pattern here... LOL.