Does anyone else remember getting fabulous christmas bonuses from employers?

[NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1]

I remember 30 odd years ago regularly getting bonuses of £800 at Christmas which was about a months wages.

Always got taken out to fabulous restaurants for no expense spared dinners too.

It doesn't happen anymore does it?

Does anyone know why it stopped? Or does anyone still get one?

It's not a moan, I just wondered why it had stopped when we are supposed to be better off now than we were 30 years ago.

I'll be getting a gift of about £10 from my employer plus a buffett lunch.

What will you be getting?

The only thing close to a Christmas bonus was being told I wouldnt be sacked as long as I worked Christmas Day. The joys of working in tourism!

I once got a kitkat from my headteacher.
Happy days.

Threat of redundancy. Education

At my first job, they used to pay a month's salary bonus at xmas - of course, the year I joined it went from being a family-run business to a corporate affair, and the new owners axed the bonus immediately, so I never got one.

Nothing. Not even a card. And December is crap sales wise so no commission in january when you could really do with the money....

Who told you we are better off than 30 years ago op? No one I know thinks that. Goalposts have been moving, to the worse, all my working life (which is not much short of 30 years).

I've tended to work in the public sector, there's no money to spend on mere staff there. We're lucky if we get paid. Literally, as the expectation of "voluntary" work spreads.

SAHM now but in my last job it was either £150 plus a meal out, or £200 but no do. We would vote on which we wanted but usually second option, and we'd go for drinks ourselves.

Also various customers would bring us drinks and Christmas food in the last week before Christmas, resulting in quite a bit of tipsy working. Fun times

We get a month's salary and an Xmas party 😊

No bonus but we get a fully paid for night out, a fully paid for lunch, and we’ll get booze/chocolates etc as well.

I remember being shocked when I did work experience as a 16 year old, in a nursery, that the nursery nurses were running around all excited because they'd been given a Christmas bonus of I think £10, or maybe it was £20, each. I just remember being really sad for them that they were so excited about such a paltry amount. I've been nannying for 12 years now. I don't remember getting anything for Christmas from my first or second family. My third family were inconsistent in that sometimes it was £80+, other times it was a dodgy present picked by the children, other times nothing. I'm with a new family now so it remains to be seen! They are wealthy, and lovely people who know how to treat employees well, so I'd be quite surprised not to get anything, but who knows - I've not been with them long.

My first job for a large supermarket we used to get a Christmas shopping day off free (ie not from holiday entitlement) plus £100. They don't still do it and in my current and all subsequent jobs I've had nothing. Did own my own company for a while and used to take all employees out for a Christmas meal, my treat.

We don't get a Christmas bonus but we get a fully paid party, a half day to get ready for the party, a separate half day for a team lunch, and a 5% bonus in the summer.

I'm so so lucky.

Nowt as I work for myself. In my old job we used to get a £10 m&s voucher, but new owners gave us a box of dates and an ugly brown mug which we were told to keep at work. How generous.

Public sector here. Fuck all. In the good days you speak of OP, we were allowed an afternoon off for an xmas lunch. That was as good as it got.

NHS - Diddly Squat
Many years ago ( before I had DD , she's 17 now) we got £10 each to go towards our Christmas meal .
It was an evening, we paid for it ourselves . The £10 was put over the bar for wine/water/juice for each table .

Nice to have but nothing since .

Not a thing - dh and I are teachers.

Public sector - we get nothing.

Love my job and my team though, so I can’t really moan!

Talking about this the other day at work

And older colleagues were saying they used to get bonuses at other similar jobs

Where I am boss tends to buy something as a Christmas present and the bigger boss buys the drinks at the Xmas do.

When I first started I got loads of Christmas presents form the people who are senior to me but now my team is bigger not as much. Or if we do it's like a box of celebrations for the team

We get a Turkey, as many chocolate advent calendars as we can stand and a party in the summer, paid for. Usually we also get a bottle of wine and an early finish xmas eve too. I'd seriously prefer the cash though.

Not in the Uk but get Xmas money like @smemorata. It’s the best idea - pay is split into nearly 13 months & at the end of November you get the nearly 2 months together as Xmas money. It’s not quite double pay but close enough

Independent retailer here. All of our staff get a bung of at least an extra £100. Plus night out, dinner, xmas lunch, as much wine/biscuits as they can carry that were gifted by customers plus a very healthy staff discount.

Tis the season eh?

We used to get a £20 voucher that went down to nothing although there was some candy canes offered around one year!
Now in a different industry and we had a massive party last year, all paid for but sadly it’s not to be this year. We got a voucher last year too.... I wonder if we’ll get that this year?
We’ve arranged get togethers in our teams and the company are subsiding one of the team parties I’m going to. Not sure about the other.

NHS-nothing! Normally get a token gift from my office manager which she buys herself.

We still get between 2% and 5% of annual salary, so at least a few thousand pounds for everyone. plus £200 worth of JL vouchers and a free xmas party. We know we’re very lucky.

My fist employer used to give us a xmas box filled with an assortment of stuff from the market, like a comb, an alarm click, a box of chocolates and a scarf!

We used to get a Christmas bonus that was an amount of money multiplied by the number of months you'd been employed. The amount varied year to year but could be £25 or so. That was on top of our annual bonus of 10-20% depending on role and a big party with a free bar and really good amounts for employee of the year awards etc. We get none of it now, the Christmas bonus went, then the big party and finally they took the annual bonus.