What do you get from your work at Christmas?

A bollocking!

Seriously, nothing.

Sorry for the caps.

My boss gets me a gift personally but from the company I get £15 High St Vouchers, a bottle of wine and we have a team do which is an overnight stay at the Hyatt in Birmingham including a meal at a City Centre restaurant, and as much drink as I can feasibly manage.

We also have a January "do" where we hire a room in the ICC, have a big awards night with a celebrity turn (last year was Twist n Pulse & Kevin Bridges), wine reception, a 3 course dinner, a "disco" and again, as much drink as I can feasibly manage. They really look after us here

My wedding venue. Well the reception ❤️

ooo i forgot this..I do PA duties and my boss, the MD gave me some M&S vouchers last year as a thank you, i wasnt expecting anything to £25 was a nice surprise. The girls (all three of us lol) get given wine, and a box of chocolate for our other halfs, the men get given chocolates and wine for their other halfs...quite cute really?

Most of our work functions are there, it's a beautiful hotel.

We get a bottle of wine from the directors and a £10 m&s voucher from the skippers of the hotel's boat.

We usually have a party on January 2nd with buffet and a couple of drinks paid for, but this hasn't been mentioned yet so not sure if it's going ahead.

Does your Christmas party get paid for? We get £15 per head contribution from the company which is nice but the team I work with have small wages and they don't like to add anything else so this doesn't go far, I would be happy to put in £20-30 and something decent but its still nice

Also usually a bottle of "bubbly" usually Cava or similar

Is it just food, just drinks or both? as above

Do you get a Christmas bonus? no, but I get 4 Qtrly bonus's and one of these is paid out at end of November so it's my xmas bonus really! We also get paid on the last Thurs of the month but Dec we get paid about the 22nd Dec which is great but makes January EVEN LONGER!

OH gets chuff all but he gets bonus's through the year

I have everything paid for, drinks, meal, more drinks, taxi home and also averages £350 in cash and a bottle of champagne!

Also, closing this year on the 22nd December (party day) and back on the 3rd January!!

xx

we come back 9th jan ? *this is no way a show off or rubbing it in comment, just saying like*

I only get Christmas day, Boxing day and New years day off.

We're off 16th December to 4th January but my work will be dead until mid Jan - do I beat you, Flow?! ?

THIS!!!

This year we get to go to Pizza hut...no Christmas bonuses infact no bonus at all - ditto on payrises and any other incentive.

I get the bank holidays which this year includes Tuesday 27th

I've never had a bonus ever! our pay is frozen too and they just cancelled the christmas party (which we pay for) due to lack of interest. Moral is pretty low at the moment, particularly in some departments as we have had two years of redundancies, our pay frozen and so on, so I suspect that is why people didn't want to go to the christmas do. Hopefully we'll get a few nibbles on the last day before we break up for christmas but I suspect only because our dept will sort it and all bring something in - we're pretty good at finding a reason for bringing in party food!

Last Christmas we moved buildings so spent the week moving heavy boxes and packing and unpacking.

We don't get anything, the managers of each department buy their staff things, though I think some buy nothing. We usually get a box of Roses between about 15 of us. OH is a manager at the same place and he buys all of his staff booze, I wish I worked for him! Our party and buffet is all paid for too, and I *think* they give us a drink voucher each but I can't remember

Our firm wide do gets paid for three courses with wine at the table and then drinks and disco after.

Office do we are paying for ourselves.

We haven't got a bonus or pay rise for the last two years but here's hoping we may get one this christmas!!!

My office had a do that we pay for ourselves - just a meal out somewhere.

The company's busiest time is winter (the factory I work at make New Covent Garden Soup - winter is the peak season) so they dont do a christmas do as it is just not feastible to close the factory so that everyone can take part. Instead, we have a summer fun day - all staff and family are allowed (Although this year we had to limit it to 7 kids! gulp! lol) There is a bouncy castle, face painting, games, disco, a BBQ/Buffet and each staff member gets a voucher which allows them 5 free drinks. Not bad, considering at the moment we have over 300 employees - last year cost a fortune!