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?

One year in a restaurant my manager was stealing the tips. I confronted him on some day in the week before Christmas. So I got myself fired and they kept my Christmas bonus

Never had anything (nurse), apart from last year when our work place was chosen by that chocolate orange man thing, where the public donate chocolate oranges for healthcare workers. I was made up! I realise now after reading about everyone else's bonuses on this thread how easy I am to please

I used to work for a very large, well known stores head office. We would get a big box of a variety of goodies that they sold worth about £400 and an all expenses paid black tie ball. By the time i left we got a mini cactus & that was it.

I'm new with this employer & i hear a rumour that they do an xmas bonus but its tied to company performance so i hear as yet its not paid out as the threshold is very high. We do get £30 for a meal out though.

Never big ones, as I work in publishing, but I think my last job might have occasionally given us an extra £70 or so when profits allowed.

I get 2 bonuses per year, one at Christmas and one in summer. Usually 4 figures.

I work in a university. We get £10 towards a Christmas meal, and it has to be spent on campus (= awful food) so that the money stays in the university system. Since they bought in that stipulation, we don't bother with a Xmas meal any more.

I used to get £500 from a big, upmarket estate agent, nothing now from academia but the base salary is a vast improvement so not complaining. We do get a free Christmas party though.

We get £8 towards a Christmas do that we have to arrange ourselves.

DH does a bit better, they get taken out by the boss and each have £100 spent in drinks and food. Then they get an attendance bonus of around £400/£500 paid before Xmas.

When I worked I didn’t get a Christmas bonus but did give my nanny a bonus €1000 plus 2 weeks paid time off not from holiday allowance over Christmas.

Nothing from my employer. Not even a card from the headteacher. We pay for our own 'do', whether it's a meal or something different.
I do get cards from most of the children and often their parents send in a gift.
I've never er worked anywhere that gives any sort of bonus and I've been working for over 40 years now. The bonuses some people have said they are expecting are more than I earn in a year!

Yes - back in the day, I remember getting a bonus plus a £3k discretionary one (I managed a team that was like a troop of toddlers). Sigh. Not these days though - absolutely nothing!

My mum worked in a factory in the early 80s. They used to get a hamper from a local butcher. It included a huge turkey, a big ham joint, bacon, sausages etc etc. It was very generous.

Now, I get a pathetic £10 ‘contribution’ to a Christmas meal.

We get an all-expenses paid Christmas meal, a workplace buffet/lunch on Boxing Day (I'd rather have the day off!) and a few boxes of chocolates for everyone to share.

My DD works for Nando's, in restaurant and HQ. They seem to really look after their employees.

Tomorrow night is the annual Xmas night out. They close a couple of restaurants in the region and send coaches for them, to go to a club somewhere, pay for their entry and the first 5 drinks, then coach them back home again.

The management team then get an all expenses day out and gifts too.

Not often you see that anymore.

I work in education and although there's nothing from the top, other than a pre-written 'personal' email from the Governors, thanking us for our hard work, I am looked after from various SLT members. I prefer it that way.

blue chip company, think we get £20 now which has to be spent on a team lunch. Until recently it was £10 which meant limited choices in central london

We were told that the rules around this tightened (this was maybe 5 years ago now, quite a while anyway), so now there's a limit on how much they can spend on our Christmas meal. Otherwise, we'd have to pay tax on it as it would be considered a benefit in kind, I think. At one point, we had our Xmas do in January to save money...

I used to get a Christmas family day out at a weekend in December where the site was open and you got a free meal for the family plus pantomime, face painting and other entertainment.

10-15 years ago DH, as a salaried employee, was supposed to take his direct reports out for a Christmas meal which he was expected to pay for. Of course they all thought the company was paying and after a few years of increasing numbers of direct reports and increasing amounts of taking the fucking piss by said direct reports I said he should continue and ask them why the "expectation" was that he pay £800-1000 of his own money on a company meal - and it stopped thank fuck. I still don't know if the employees know he paid or are complaining that they only get the usual company wide meal now but it would boil my piss from about September onwards

Continue = go to HR

We get nothing.

Yes, I remember getting a Christmas bonus of £500 30 years ago. We also got free company shares every year, access to the share save scheme were you were guaranteed to almost double your money. Flexi time, incremental wage rise for the first 5 years (or until you reached the top of your pay scale) when you started work for the company/gained a promotion. All gone now, and they wonder why they can’t keep staff for longer than 2 minutes.

Police officer , so I get bugger all except the chance to earn double time refereeing other people's Christmases .....

DH and DS both work for a fruit and veg supplier . They each get a Christmas box with all the fruit and veg you could think of , plus a Christmas pudding and a bottle of Prosecco . Don't have to buy any fruit or veg for a month !

We get the presents parents give in that are meant to go to the staff room for all staff or are left in for Office Staff, Cleaners etc that we're not allowed to accept without going through the Principal. Principal has directed that all presents go to their office and are then given to us as a present from the Principal/School for Christmas.

My DH receives a large Christmas bonus (more than the uk average salary). I usually get a bottle of sparkling wine or Baileys.
Years ago I received four weeks wages from my Saturday job and went straight to a shop called Next Too and spent the lot in about 15 minutes.

Biggest tip I ever got was - Don't eat yellow snow !

We used to get a paid day off for Christmas shopping, then it was reduced to a half day, then nip out for a half hour when it's not busy in the office. Did used to get a contribution to Christmas lunches. Happily I don't work now, so I don't know what goes on. I can also remember office parties, in the office - and so long as there was someone to answer the phone no one cared. The odd customer that did call usually said "sounds like you're having fun - I'll call tomorrow" Would never happen now