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Think we'll get a xmas bonus this year?

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Re: Think we'll get a xmas bonus this year?

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Sherpas Rule wrote:Or will they say they can't afford it?
Can't wait to see which sort of seeds I'll be getting this year :chuckle
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stamps...... :sad:
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dvbuk55 wrote:
Sherpas Rule wrote:Or will they say they can't afford it?
Can't wait to see which sort of seeds I'll be getting this year :chuckle
jeez yeah i remember that biggest joke ever
anyway i think xmas bonus was agreed some years ago and cant be taken away
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I am sure its in the agreement :hmmmm
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Pro rata of course :sad:
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It's not a 'Bonus'! Can't rem what they call it (Was over a year since i got it),isn't it called xmas supplement?
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& dont forget comrades,pro rata or not.................we will be worked for every friggin penny of it
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only to time only to time me im lapsing DOWN xmas and a merry one to rm when it comes and i hope mgmt got their boots hats torches etc for all my cut offs this year :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle
especially with the cdv revision cant wait
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We've been told by our DIM that they won't be making up PTers to Temp FT for the Xmas period this year! So it'll definately be a Pro-rata £50 bonus if we get one :sad:

He said it was ,"A Business Decision" (his favourite mantra a present) have any other DOs been told this? or is it just more BS?

To add insult to injury he then said, "I've put up an availability sheet so you can let me know if you'll be working your days off, or if you want OT over the Xmas period" :shock:
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guvenor wrote:only to time only to time me im lapsing DOWN xmas and a merry one to rm when it comes and i hope mgmt got their boots hats torches etc for all my cut offs this year :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle
especially with the cdv revision cant wait
managers wont need their boots etc on
why
cos if your office is like mine there will be plenty of takers who will work all day (and night)long
this week we have people who are supposed to be on a/l coming in to do work for the tossers in charge :arrrghhh
and yes we have been on cdr foe three weeks and yes the packets and parcels are mounting up,and yes I WORK TO MY TIME .but thanks to these people it will work :arrrghhh
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Dorset Plodder wrote:We've been told by our DIM that they won't be making up PTers to Temp FT for the Xmas period this year! So it'll definately be a Pro-rata £50 bonus if we get one :sad:

He said it was ,"A Business Decision" (his favourite mantra a present) have any other DOs been told this? or is it just more BS?

To add insult to injury he then said, "I've put up an availability sheet so you can let me know if you'll be working your days off, or if you want OT over the Xmas period" :shock:
It's HIS decision! BS at it's best.
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I didn't know any offices EVER made people up to temp part-time over the Christmas period, nice touch!

In our offices they just try to get everyone to come in on OT over Christmas, but never made any P/T temp F/T to benefit from whole bonus...
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mailmonkey wrote:I didn't know any offices EVER made people up to temp part-time over the Christmas period, nice touch!

In our offices they just try to get everyone to come in on OT over Christmas, but never made any P/T temp F/T to benefit from whole bonus...
Our office has made up p/t to f/t at christmas and have done the same through the early stages of the revision which will carry on through christmas and in to the new year and probably on to the introduction of the wsms in Feb/Mar
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Thanks for the info Postman. Once again it's "Divide and Rule" :no no How these twats can stand in front of you and blatantly lie is beyond me. How the hell are we meant to know what's a company policy and what's some stupid idea the DIMs trying to pass off as such? :arrrghhh

Have to think of a way of nicely telling him, I think he's a lying bastard! Good news is- as it's only £50, might just go sick before Xmas and stuff him. :dance
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I've never known anyone be made up to a F/T contract over xmas.

And I was told, as a naive new starter on first Xmas duty, that overtime was at SA rate. Yes, it's at SA rate if you're on a F/T contract. When you're P/T, it's only SA once you've done 40 hours.
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