Bonuses

Posted at 2:00 PM on April 5, 2009 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)

There are bonuses... and then there are bonuses.

Comments (3)

Southwest just keeps getting cooler.

Posted by Greg | April 5, 2009 2:33 PM

Wow. My big bonus this year was not losing my job...yet. For 3M's 100th Birthday a few years back they gave all their employees something worth nearly $10,000 - a rock from the original mine they made the first sandpaper out of in a 2" square commorative bag. Some companies have it, others...

Posted by Al | April 5, 2009 6:36 PM

This is how it oughta be - it wouldn't even have to be $10,000. But appreciation of the employees you have is huge. I worked for a very small company (less than 10 total in the office) - and they certainly couldn't afford bonuses like this, but they bought lunch "just because," passed on kudos from the clients, gave out year-end bonuses when they could, and generally made sure that us worker bees knew our work was appreciated. Like Al said in his comment, "some companies have it..."

Posted by Anna | April 5, 2009 10:21 PM

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