What's your holiday bonus?

Kashia, ASN, LVN · Dec 6, 2006

As a registry nurse I'd say my bonus would be in form of work because in San Diego I am finding many staff nurses wanting to work doubles which cuts need for registry nurses.

A bonus for me will be paying my rent this month!

emmycRN · Dec 6, 2006

I've got a good one. Last year administration put together a large box full of things like beef jerky, canned tuna, crackers, ect. They put it in the break room with a card that said Merry Christmas... use these items for days you can't take a lunch break. :rolleyes: :icon_sad:

lillarn · Dec 6, 2006

I just got a letter from the hospital saying there would be an extra $25 in my next paycheck. Also, they mentioned that they are paying the taxes on this gift.

Be still my heart.

We are also not allowed to take a Christmas holiday (i.e., PTO) during Christmas week, and since everyone has to work Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, it's the one day of the year we are fully staffed. So really, we don't even get an extra day off.

My application to the corporate world was sent in today. I never thought I'd do it, but I'm going.

pegasus12164 · Dec 6, 2006

NOTHING!

Our new CEO took ALL of the bonuses away.

We use to get a gift card to a retail chain, not anymore. :madface:

Pegasus

NurseyPoo, RN · Dec 6, 2006

Last year we all got $25.00 gift cards to the local grocery store. Wow! Food shopping...Woo-Hoo!! I have no idea what this year will bring. I have not heard anything yet.

weesyanne · Dec 6, 2006

What's a holiday bonus? :lol2:

We will probably get a $25 gift card to a local grocery store and a free cafeteria meal whether we are working the holiday or not. That's the norm.

At my last job, the hospital looks at its profit margin for the fiscal year sometime in June and gives people who have been there at least the full fiscal year a bonus. Last July it was around $1200 minus taxes, not too shabby. You have to work at least 20 hours per week and have a satisfactory evaluation for the year. It's not guaranteed, it depends on how successful the hospital is in meeting goals. But I think it's wonderful.

SE_BSN_RN, BSN · Dec 6, 2006

Haha My bonus was working thanksgiving, xmas eve and xmas! And the time and a half taken for taxes. Some bonus!

BeccaRN1970 · Dec 6, 2006

As I am short on humor today, I am reading about these so-called "bonuses" with disgust! Knowing what hospital corporations gross (and "gross" is an appropriate term), I am endlessly amazed at how little we as nurses are valued by our employers, and I wonder why (again) we put up with it, when we could be such a strong force if we stood together.

As a part-time RN, my holiday bonus is $25 (fully taxable), full time is $50. The doctors on our floor usually donate a fruit basket, and if you work Christmas day you get a mediocre meal from the dining facility.

I suppose I should be thankful for what we DO get, but after getting another long list of everything else we need to be doing - new, additional tasks, meanwhile carrying the same (or higher) pt load for the same crappy pay, new cuts in personnel so we can "balance the budget", I am FED UP! My "calling" for being a nurse is falling on deaf ears! :angryfire

Mulan · Dec 6, 2006

I've got a good one. Last year administration put together a large box full of things like beef jerky, canned tuna, crackers, ect. They put it in the break room with a card that said Merry Christmas... use these items for days you can't take a lunch break. :icon_sad:

You should have packaged it back up and given it right back to them with the same card. :roll

Ilove2bRN · Dec 7, 2006

i work for a hospice non profit...last year was a great year we got over 2k for our bonus...this year we had no extra due to a new hospice facility opening....so no bonus this year.....when they have extra they show their appreciation....my other job all employees staff and nurses got $250...and a party........

cookie102 · Dec 7, 2006

i got a christmas card!!

MoosePond · Dec 7, 2006

What's a holiday bonus....In the past 14 years of nusing I have never received one. The most our OR receives is the left over cheese cake that the surgeons bring in from the parties they have @ their private offices. talk about cheap.