Tommorrow is bonus day at work

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

I work in the financial services industry in NYC. I hope to make enough to make a trip to starbucks

 

[slsmnaz]

you should quit if it's anything under 6 figures

 

[JS80]

Lazard employees got canned 2 weeks before bonus.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: JS80
Lazard employees got canned 2 weeks before bonus.

I can picture it now...
Manager hands me an envelope and says, "Here is your bonus"

I open it and find a pink slip.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

depends on how well your company did last year (for some)

our bonuses were similar to last year with no raises (not in the financial industry)

 

[ChaoZ]

Don't worry, even if your company is in the shitter they'll be bonuses all-around.

 

[Crusty]

I had my largest bonus in the fall(financial industry too). Go go volatility!

 

[rudder]

Enrollement in the jelly of the month club... this gift that keeps on giving all year round.

 

[OUCaptain]

Nothing. Bonuses are not to be expected. If it's expected income, it's not a bonus.

 

[Toasthead]

id say keeping you job is a bonus.

 

[Aluvus]

-$10,000

Oh, right, you're in financial services. I mean ($10,000).

 

[CRXican]

$5 Starbucks gift card

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: rudder
Enrollement in the jelly of the month club... this gift that keeps on giving all year round.

Sure beats the sea salt of the month club. They all taste the same

 

[Capt Caveman]

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
-$10,000

Oh, right, you're in financial services. I mean ($10,000).

No, he works in financial services.

You mean +$1,000,000. Gotta spend that bailout money somehow.

 

[jjzelinski]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: rudder
Enrollement in the jelly of the month club... this gift that keeps on giving all year round.

Sure beats the sea salt of the month club. They all taste the same

Not true, High Sea salt is rather tasty

 

[looker001]

Minimum 500k or you should start looking for a new job.

 

[dquan97]

Better be a $5 gift card

 

[Koing]

Do you get called in to the boss's office and handed a slip? We get called in about a week before pay day in April.

Koing

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'm not directing this at the OP...

Does anyone else think it's pretty messed up when people think they are entitled to a bonus regardless of company performance? I'm in the auto industry and this industry is shit right now yet for some people are still hoping for a bonus. What the hell? My bonus is that I'm still working.

 

[nobody554]

Originally posted by: CRXican
$5 Starbucks gift card

That'll get you, what? A shot of espresso?

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: dquan97
Better be a $5 footlong

fixed

 

[xboxist]

"bonus day at work"

Must be freaking nice.

 

[ShockwaveVT]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I'm not directing this at the OP...

Does anyone else think it's pretty messed up when people think they are entitled to a bonus regardless of company performance? I'm in the auto industry and this industry is shit right now yet for some people are still hoping for a bonus. What the hell? My bonus is that I'm still working.

Most of the time bonuses are marketed to employees as a reward for that individual doing a good/excellent job. So people focus on the fact that they did a "good job" that year, therefore they deserve a bonus. Of course they forget the caveat that always comes with bonuses... that little line about how company profits affect the amount.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I'm not directing this at the OP...

Does anyone else think it's pretty messed up when people think they are entitled to a bonus regardless of company performance? I'm in the auto industry and this industry is shit right now yet for some people are still hoping for a bonus. What the hell? My bonus is that I'm still working.

Some people's comp plans have defined bonus in them.