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Payed for dinner + open bar with overnight stay (Delta downtown this year, tonight actually). Pretty good since there are almost 400 employees all over AB, SK and BC. Costs them a crap load of money to bring everyone + spouses to Calgary ('cause head office and plant are here) for the weekend.
Some company branded swag. This year are really nice 3 piece winter coats and some shirts. Nice because every dept. gets to pick their branded swag.
No bonuses, bonus time is March-April.
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A dinner in Banff, then party at chateau lake louise, like every year. We already did ours btw.
Plus something else depending on performance. We'll see in 2 weeks.
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Xmas party(have to pay to go), no free booze(they say too much of a liability), no bonus. But the only thing I get out of it is that I get my week vaction off at christmas(that I have to book in august to hopefully get off) woohoo.
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Small party with no dj but an ipod and stereo for music. Probably a few cheese and cracker platters. $2/drink bar, with money going towards a free trip for one person (to hell with that, I'm sneaking in booze, no way I'm paying for someones trip). And that's it, no bonus, no nothing.
Basically, sounds like something off The Office.
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A department lunch that's pretty rushed (no booze) and a hearty hand shake for doing the company proud and a friendly reminder that we still have jobs. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get a $10 gift card for Timmy's or something that I'll be too embarrased to tell my friends and family about. Not even dinner man...a damn lunch which we have to finish within 2 hours (including travel time).
Between anarchy and calm, there is a door marked supplies.
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Mine is at the banff springs too on the 14th! I wonder if we work for the same company..Originally posted by 89coupe
When is your party this year?
Ours is on the 14th at the Banff Springs Hotel?
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Oh, we are having a poker game, you interested in joining? LOL
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i get the promise that next year will be better
so i go to the peelers, f*** an ugly blonde and wish myself a happy new year
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We're doing the Banff thing, plus bonuses (usually pretty decent ones), and maybe a gift too - last year was a gift card to Home Depot (I bought a 25 gal compressor with it). Plus we close for the week between Christmas and New Years - paid.
Calgary is so much like an iphone: iCalgary - There's a bylaw for that.
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Oh I forgot that party is only if I actually get time off
And if I have to work on a stat holiday like new years ( i think its so wrong starting the first day of the year as a holiday btw) Xmas and Boxing day I get a 200 dollar bonus! (which is half my day rate!)
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Normally my company paid out profit sharing, but we are going public so we get to buy shares at the same price as the mutual fund companies do. (15% discount)
They match us up to 5% of income to date (11mos). Basically a one time bonus that will be transferred into my name in a year but must remain in place for 5 years before I can cash it out.
X-mas party, free drinks for 2 hours, door prizes. Best prize last year was a set of Titleist golf clubs. I won some gay light blue booze
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Going to Chateau Lake Louise Friday-Sunday. Includes all brunches and dinners, lift ticket or some people opted for snowmobiling somewhere in Golden, and $200 gift certificate to the spa.
As for bonuses, we don't get them sometime around March.
Where are all the materialistic people?!
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I work for Jomax drilling. Far as I know, we get nothing. Other companies drop off chocolate, hats, shirts, cups and sometimes knives for us.
We did get a bonus before for drilling a hole way ahead of schedule... but that wasnt in -40 conditions.
Right now we are in Tumbler Ridge BC. Its cold.
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-A party at a comedy club (open bar)
-Closed from Dec. 21 - Jan 2
-$500 (at least that's what it's been the last few years).
Phuck I wish I hit the 10% - 20 % like some of the people on here.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aNSK6SSBn5ZcGoldman, the biggest and most profitable U.S. securities firm, set aside $16.9 billion to pay salaries this Christmas.
Originally posted by 89coupe
I do get great service there, especially when I mention my name, haha.
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individual bonuses, i get 6000,(on 90k this year) fully paid steak dinner and all the drinks i can take, paid cab fare, small gifts , entertainment, and this is from a company of twenty people. what can i say, my boss realizes that people make the profits!!
100% VAGITARIAN!
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Goldman and Sachs pays their bonuses mostly to traders who get a percentage of the profits they bring in.
In the past they have had bond traders get $20-30 million dollar bonuses as they individually brought in $200-300 million in profits over one year.
It is a fairly common practice in the industry. I remember hearing about a natural gas trader at Enron here in Calgary that got a $6 million dollar bonus and was pissed because had he stopped trading in November of that year he would have gotten $8 million instead.
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dinner, plus open bar
10% bonus
1 week off /payed
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I think I know whats up.. You guys are including your yearly with your xmas bonus. I meant just xmas.
I get my 10% in Jan.
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xmas party and new years party and 10% bonus
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