If only we all got Christmas bonuses like this...

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Shoe plant workers get up to $20,000 bonuses

Monday, December 15, 2003 Posted: 1:18 PM EST (1818 GMT)

PITTSFIELD, Maine (AP) -- Workers at a shoe plant were feeling more than a little tickled when they got their Christmas bonuses that, for some, totaled nearly $20,000.

Instead of receiving typical end-of-year frozen turkeys, the 200 employees of the SAS Shoemakers plant here were handed envelopes when they were called together Friday afternoon.

When Lawrence Wyman opened his, he found a check for $19,000. His wife, Charlene, got a check for the same amount.

The company this year awarded its employees with bonuses of $1,000 for every year worked at the company. Even those who had worked less than a year got $500 each.

The bonuses were particularly uplifting given that most news in the manufacturing sector this year has been about plants closing and employees being laid off.

"They called us all together and said we would each get $1,000," Lawrence Wyman said. "Everyone started clapping and then they said it would be $1,000 for each year worked."

And that's when the tears flowed. Some estimated that the bonuses totaled $200,000 or more.

SAS Pittsfield is a division of SAS Shoemakers in San Antonio. The corporate offices were closed Friday afternoon and company officials could not be reached for comment.

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[Kaervak]

Wow, that's something you rarely ever see companies doing. Kudos to them.

 

[Ness]

I bet they are laundering money


...except they suck at it and don't realize it won't come back to them.

 

[PanzerIV]

Amazing. I almost had to read it again. A company that does something NICE for its employees! My that's almost blasphemous. Now evil corporations everywhere are plotting the demise of this dastardly do-gooder. Conformity! Must treat employees like crap...

 

[rh71]

LOL. Wait till the more senior people get fired before next year's bonus time comes around.

 

[ajpa123]

Just watch Walmart cancel their next order with them some time soon.. j/k

Sounds too good to be true doesn't it.
$20k in mad money has gotta be a nice feeling

 

[iwearnosox]

Wow, I feel like supporting them and buying their shoes. I'm sure that will wear off, though.

 

[Kadarin]

That's awesome

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Wow, I feel like supporting them and buying their shoes. I'm sure that will wear off, though.

i would suggest supporting them by buying their socks....but we all know that you wear no sox

 

[richardycc]

SAS shoes? how come I've never heard of them, who are the people that are buying their shoes?

 

[Spoooon]

My mom always buys SAS shoes for work. They give you these little chocolates with every purchase.

 

[CPA]

mine does.

I get a 25% bonus every March.

 

[MattCo]

Wow, that is pretty cool.

My company gives us nothing...ever.


-MC

 

[rh71]

That's selling a lot of shoes.

 

[DaWhim]

is it a good news or bad? sound bad to me...

 

[MithShrike]

Well, that's nice to hear.

 

[TommyVercetti]

I got a $300 walmart gift card. Someone else I know who works at a day care got $500.

 

[Beau]

What's a christmas bonus?

 

[snooker]

Thats awesome!

The last company I worked for gave a christmas bonus of a few hundred dollars. I guess I will soon find out if the new company I work for gives a bonus this time of year

 

[Parrotheader]

A lot of the junior/senior mgmt and select 'favorites' at my company would have to take a big cut in their bonuses if that were the case. Since our whole agency revolves around billable hours our bonuses are supposed to be performance-based although it's obvious it's fairly political depending upon if you're one of the favorites (our IT guy was talking about one of the bonus sheets he found on the server from a couple years ago and it was a little frustrating.)

I've been so busy this year I rarely get a chance to leave my office so I don't have time (nor the desire) to kiss up to the execs like some do. I'll find out at the end of this week just how much credence they give to the bottom-line income/billable numbers I suppose - our bonuses will be handed out later this week.

It's good to hear it for people in positions like this though. I hate to be a cynic, but hopefully their mgmt isn't being nice now just to soften them up before turning around and scaling back their workforce.

 

[Pseudodominion]

WOW extremely generous owners. You dont see much of that.

 

[P.O.W.]

If their shoes are reasonably priced, this is not suprising. The poor people at nike will never get a bonus because $90 from a $100 shoe goes to Lebron James.

 

[Zombie]

hahaha, I hope that its not a public company. I doubt their shareholders will take very kindly to this generosity . But very nice of them nonetheless.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

That is sooo cool. If I were a cross-dresser, I would wear their shoes in a heartbeat

 

[slackerinabox]

Wow, a company does something NICE.. You know, if they sold mens shoes in NYC I'd much rather support them than punks who pay asian kids a few pennies an hour....