Christmas Bonuses (yeah, I said Christmas not Holiday)

This goes hand in hand with an earlier post about an article advocating that people should NOT go into machining as a living. I guess we’re quite lucky here in TX where the pay rates are quite good for machinist compared to other parts of the country. Anyway, a Facebook machining group was having a heated discussion on whether they got/deserved a Christmas bonus. This was the best response (before taxes)

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I work for Frontier - any bonus looks good to me.

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Bonus, what’s that? Lol

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Congrats Mr. Penman, you have done well.

I agree - just look at his hourly rate

I’m missing something obvious here. At first glance, 16k times 0 hours equals 0 dollars.

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that’s the joke…

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I’m a teacher. I don’t understand the concept of “the bonus”.

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I hear ya. I was self employed for the last 8 years. I hardly understood paycheck. although, my current employer even included us temps in the Christmas festivities and giveaways. Very nice of them. cheers!

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You deserve every moment of good. Congrats on the success!

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Idk. They buy us lunch and shove a candy cane in the box. It’s like the only time we get fed or have a non cafeteria option so it feels like a bonus

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Government jobs are non revenue generating for the most part hence no bonus.

Reminds of the old joke about a product manager telling his clueless boss:
We can’t sell it below cost.
Why not, we’ll sell a million of them.
We’ll lose money on each one.
But we’ll make it up in volume.

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Same amount of Christmas bonus dollars I received !

However I continue to meet great new folks both as customers and at the space(or both in some cases-you know who you are) - far better a deal in my opinion.

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The opposite is Law Firms - they contribute zero to our nation’s worth yet give out bonuses for “winning” all the time…

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http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citywide-change-bank/n9701?snl=1

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citiwide-bank-change-ii/n9703

I got to stay home all week last week, albeit on call, but still. Being home for a week was a bonus

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