Christmas bonus

[Foxy90GT]

$15 Target Giftcard

me too! not that it's anything to get that excited about lol but it's 15 bucks more than i had

[stephen4785]

$1750 bonus, 2% raise, 60 shares of stock(currently valued @ $1500).

[TX_92_Notch]

Meh, the economy has killed my profession. We went from 1,550 employees in 2008 to 830 currently. Bonus in 2008 was $29k. This year, maybe 20% of that.

And I'm not complaining. I'm happy that I'm still employed, having just watched nearly half of my firm lose their jobs over the past two years, my brother included.

[Sgt Beavis]

What area you specialize in? A friend of mine is the CIO of Kraft/EDS.

I work for Infrastructure Modernization at HPES. I am one of the lead virtualization architects. I briefly worked on Kraft a couple of years ago. They needed a couple dozen physical servers migrated to a virtual farm and I had the free cycles to do it. These days I wouldn't blink at that stuff. I've been doing ground up data center assessments followed by design and implementation of VMware environments.

[6.7dually2009]

At first I was like what the F*ck but I have allerady found a replacement for him that is more than happy to come and work with me plus in my eyes I think that he is a better salesmen so it will work out in the end.

[hunt4m3x]

Last summer, Mark "the major MF'in asshole" Hurd was fired from HP. Now we've got this new guy, Leo "no one pronounces my name right" Apotheker. He seems to have quickly realized that everyone here hated Hurd and people were starting to leave in droves.

So Leo, to his credit, just reversed the paycut that Hurd forced on everyone five years ago. That put a pretty decent amount of coin back in my wallet. We also started getting some decent bonuses. I got $9K (before taxes) and some stock this year. The only downside is that I didn't get a merit based pay increase, even though I've had the highest annual review rating for two years running. I also got a promotion with no pay increase. I guess I've gotta have something to bitch about, ehh?

All said, I feel that I'm fortunate to be in a profession and specialty that is in very high demand these days.

What area you specialize in? A friend of mine is the CIO of Kraft/EDS.

[ELD3782]

$20, which is $20 more than I had. But get alot of "freebies" throughout the year.

[JimD]

Hell my boss is the cheapest mofo ever, he don't even get his wife anything, so a bonus, LOL

[krazy kris]

I gave my employee a $500 bonus for christmas and let him have a week off for christmas then I just found out today since he has been on vaction for two days that as of the jan. 1 he will no longer be my employee.

I'll take his spot,

[idrivea4banger]

I gave my employee a $500 bonus for christmas and let him have a week off for christmas then I just found out today since he has been on vaction for two days that as of the jan. 1 he will no longer be my employee.

Lol, that sucks.

[fordracing19]

Still waiting....

[6.7dually2009]

I gave my employee a $500 bonus for christmas and let him have a week off for christmas then I just found out today since he has been on vaction for two days that as of the jan. 1 he will no longer be my employee.

[bpawl]

$0. first time in 16 years company hasnt given us something, cheap bastards

[FRANCISCO308]

$3K

[davbrucas]

It's true, I just googled it.

Dont doubt me, son...