Bonus

Edgy DC
Dec 14 2006 12:22 PM

Five hundred bucks and 40 ounces of peanuts.

cooby
Dec 14 2006 12:36 PM

Edgy, you get a lot of bonuses!

Johnny Dickshot
Dec 14 2006 12:55 PM

That's at least 40 ounces more peanuts than I'll be getting this year.

Edgy DC
Dec 14 2006 01:01 PM

I heard "Wow we each get 40 ounces!" in the next office, and I was thinking we were each going to get a Colt 45.

cooby
Dec 14 2006 01:02 PM

Or gold

seawolf17
Dec 14 2006 01:47 PM

Good thing you're an elephant.

If I got a bag of peanuts as a "bonus," I'd sue.

Rockin' Doc
Dec 14 2006 10:41 PM

seawolf - "If I got a bag of peanuts as a "bonus," I'd sue."

I suspect, the $500 eased the disappointment concerning the peanuts.

seawolf17
Dec 15 2006 07:07 AM

I'm just speaking from a peanut-allergic standpoint. I got $500 too.

soupcan
Dec 15 2006 09:10 AM

Maybe I'm out of touch but isn't the standard year-end bonus equal to at least one paycheck?

Yancy Street Gang
Dec 15 2006 09:20 AM

I don't think there's a standard anymore. My current company doesn't give bonuses. My previous company gave pretty big bonuses. I got $12,000 one year and $10,000 the next. (The only reason I left was because I grew to hate them and they grew to hate me. I do miss those bonuses though!)

Edgy DC
Dec 15 2006 09:24 AM

Them's some phat bonus action. I'm impressed you walked away from it.

We tend to get generous (but not nearly so Yancy generous) mid-year boni after our board meets and tells our president how awesome we are.

Sorry. Crass of me to bring up money.

soupcan
Dec 15 2006 09:27 AM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 15 2006 09:42 AM

I have a friend at Goldman Sachs. Supposedly he got a $1,000,000.00 bonus last year but only about $500,000.00 this year despite all the stories about how Goldman employees did the best they ever have with bonuses.

I read one story, in The Post of course, that said if the total amount of bonuses given out by Goldman were included, then the average salary paid to a Goldman employee was $622,000.00 this year.

Yeah, I'm sure the mail room guys are lighting their blunts with hundred dollar bills.

OE: edited for clarification purposes.

Edgy DC
Dec 15 2006 09:38 AM

Average can be a very very deceptive figure.

soupcan
Dec 15 2006 09:39 AM

Dat's what I'm sayin'.

Leave it to The Post.

sharpie
Dec 15 2006 09:56 AM

I am eligible for a bonus of up to $10,000. That is if the company makes its targets, which it isn't going to do. You end up getting something on down years but nowhere near 10K. If I get half of that I'll be very happy.

The estate of one of our authors sends a big container of peanut-butter filled pretzels every year. Haven't gotten mine this year yet. I guess that fulfills the peanut oriented part of the bonus for me.

Yancy Street Gang
Dec 15 2006 10:03 AM

Edgy DC wrote:
Them's some phat bonus action. I'm impressed you walked away from it.

How did Casey Stengel put it when the Yankees fired him? There was no question that I had to leave.

Something like that.

I decided to quit. They decided to fire me. Both happened nearly simultaneously.

Johnny Dickshot
Dec 15 2006 10:33 AM

I've only had one job in my whole career that paid any kind of real bonus, and I never hated a job or a company more. I think bonuses must have to do with how evil a company is. Bigger bonus = more soul-crushing evil.

TheOldMole
Dec 15 2006 10:35 AM

I don't believe I've ever gotten a bonus.

Yancy Street Gang
Dec 15 2006 10:50 AM

="Johnny Dickshot"]I've only had one job in my whole career that paid any kind of real bonus, and I never hated a job or a company more. I think bonuses must have to do with how evil a company is. Bigger bonus = more soul-crushing evil.

That was my experience!

KC
Dec 15 2006 11:25 AM

We get two weeks gross pay, only soc sec taken out. I've always thought it
to be a fair and generous amount ... not too little for anyone to complain, and
not too much where people get spoiled. Comes in handy, just got it as I type.

Johnny Dickshot
Dec 15 2006 12:30 PM

They gave us a nice glass bowl last year.

No bowl this year-- this is in fact my last day in this office -- start at the new digs Monday. They did give us "thanks for not quitting while we tried making a bundle off your biz" bonus a few weeks back.

cooby
Dec 15 2006 06:51 PM

The company my husband used to work at gave out anywhere from 4% to 10% of their annual salary, and they would take out taxes and 401K contributions.
I griped like heck about the tax deduction, but it basically assured us of a nice income tax return every year.

Since he hasn't worked there (they had to shut down, go figure) we have had to pay every April.

Widey, have a great first day :)