Christmas bonus's

[frontside_air]

As a charitable alternative to corporate holiday gifts this year, our company donated enough money to install clean water wells in a half-dozen villages in Kenya, through the Daiga Water Project, providing clean, safe and reliable water to 6,483 people. Our gift will provide equipment, well parts and an engineer for drilling a deep-bore hole. Villagers will receive full training in well maintenance to ensure that their well stays in full working order. They will also provide us with regular updates as to the status of the project, so we can see how the wells are transforming lives.

Oh, and we also got profit sharing, which will come close to 10k.

can i swap my profit sharing for village sharing? 10% of that village population is enough people for me to live out my dreams of a sun-god worshiping, caligulaian utopia on an island in georgian bay.

[bob sacamano]

I got nothing from my company.

That's still better than a poke in the eye.

Merry Christmas to all.

[FastFlyBy]

Christmas bonus? What's that? I've never had one...
Oh wait... yeah I was laid off. Does that count?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

I was lucky, I work for me, so I bought me a new Suzuki SX4 fully loaded including turbo auto suck for those long solo drives.

[JS32]

good salary increase

[TheEvilTwin]

Does a F'd up back from unloading freight up north count??

[SerialKiller]

My X-mas bonus was given to a charity called "The Human Fund".

[Raybanman]

Does a F'd up back from unloading freight up north count??

Not quite, but It'll earn you a beer if you show up in the same bar as me over the holidays :) (Hint: If you drink occasionally in YZF I might be somewhere close.)

Happy HOHO,
PP

[CJ3PILOT]

Does a F'd up back from unloading freight up north count??

From a true Otter Pilot.So Merry Christmas I'm there with you..

[Justwannafly]

I get a $25 gift certificate for the grocery store in town.... aka food stamps! And I'm not kidding here!

What a slap in the face...

This year I got $30 Tim Horton's food stamps & no work party......last year for a differnt employer got 1.5 months wages & a rock'n work party...now THAT was a Christmas Bonus

[Invertago]

I got a card, it looks insignificant now that I read some of these other posts, guess it could be worse, at least the card was printed on recycled paper.

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huummmmmmm.... Where do I start???

[water wings]

anyone who has worked with me at this company will know what i am talking about:
one year - a travel mug
another year - a prison sweatshirt
next - a quarter in a block of plastic
and another year - a plastic airplane model

Xmas bonuses are not to be expected... i once read only 17% of CDN companies give bonuses... and as an employer, what do you give that employee that has been a lazy ass all year? Timmy's gift cards? (ooh - sorry jwfly!!..ha ha)
i think the other 364 days of the year should speak volumes versus one day...
(Although cold hard cash is pilot talk for Christmas spirit! HA!!)
Very Merry everyone!!

[Dash-Ate]

nope just hangin around the pilot house:

[angry inch]

Just got off the phone with a buddy who is an unlicensed carpenter in a small coastal community. His boss gave him a $2500 bonus yesterday.
The guys senior to him got more...
That's pretty fuckin' festive if you ask me!!

[Justwannafly]

anyone who has worked with me at this company will know what i am talking about:
one year - a travel mug
another year - a prison sweatshirt
next - a quarter in a block of plastic
and another year - a plastic airplane model

Xmas bonuses are not to be expected... i once read only 17% of CDN companies give bonuses... and as an employer, what do you give that employee that has been a lazy ass all year? Timmy's gift cards? (ooh - sorry jwfly!!..ha ha)
i think the other 364 days of the year should speak volumes versus one day...
(Although cold hard cash is pilot talk for Christmas spirit! HA!!)
Very Merry everyone!!

lol that's true...but they still make you feel apreciated.....& if your that "lazy ass" maybe it will inspire you to work harder next year though not sure it would....I've never work'd with anyone who was lazy & a pilot...but I've work'd with a lot of lazy non pilots

[thatdaveguy]

nav canada gives managers $25 per employee roughly. so i got a $25 gift certificate. last year was a mug.

[johnholmes]

Hope all of the fine folks at Borek enjoyed their shitty Christmas Cards. Pretty generous considering 90% of the pilots that work there are 7000 miles away from their families at this time of year

I enjoyed a great Christmas day with my family and could actually afford to buy everyone presents this year with the generous bonus from my new boss. Regardless Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

P.S. those cards make a great fire when you are freezing ass of in your tent in Antarctica.

[hawker driver]

We got $50 gift cards from an online steak company.

What the pilots did with the cards showed management what the true meaning of Christmas is.


(note: I work in the US and this an American company )

About 8 months ago one of our pilots got cancer and went off on Long term disability getting 60% of his former wages.
Our company management calculated that since he did not work more then 45 days in a 3 month period he was no longer considered a full time employee and therefore not entitled to company health care benefits. So they kicked him off and sent him to pay for his family health insurance by himself. So he is left with $2200 per month gross income, a wife who does not work and a 4 year old daughter, and his cancer. His health insurance goes from $300 per month to $1600 per month thanks to the company . This gives his family $600 a month to live on. The pilot union hired a lawyer to look into it for him and we were all surprised to find out that the company's actions were legal but just highly immoral.

Well, the pilots all got together and started to send him all of our Christmas gift cards as well as personal cheques and any other perks that we we receive from the FBO's. The union leadership asked the 600 pilots to send him the gift cards plus $10 each. Well the pilots each sent him and his family a lot more then $10 each and the gift cards.

He just posted a thank you letter on our union web site about how this was looking to be the worst Christmas that his family was going to face to one where he and his family experience the true meaning of Christmas thanks to his fellow pilots.



P.S. After hearing this be happy that you live in a country with Universal health care. For all of its faults and long line at least you you will not have a greedy corporation decide if you or your family will receive medical care.

[grimey]

I get to move to Calgary and get paid more! oh and the best bonus i'm leaving Manitoba

Yea, getting told I was leaving Thompson was my bonus too.

[grimey]

I got a certificate for up to one year in the Jelly of the Month club

I got my boss bound & gagged in my living room with a big red bow.

[kitin]

i received my 13th month pay and that will be enough cause i brought a new phone...hehehe

[200hr Wonder]

I got a certificate for up to one year in the Jelly of the Month club

I got my boss bound & gagged in my living room with a big red bow.

grimy I was not aware your name was Clark W. Griswold... Watch that every christmas with the family

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Haza was in charge of giving out the YHM bone-ass's this year.

He got me a "for Dummies Book",

"Anger Management Toward People That Wear Bluetooths.......for dummies"

[1000 HP]

My boss told me about a juicy bonus. Then he said the cheque was in the mail... Still waiting