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zen death robot posted:mine does and they're based in israel SA is based in israel? wow
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Sagebrush posted:i've never worked in a place that gave christmas bonuses. lol my annual bonus has always been paid out in the spring, after 4q results are in "christmas bonuses" were never more than, like, a hundred bucks on a gift card
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zen death robot posted:mine does and they're based in israel lol, which malware company do you work for?
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zen death robot posted:mine does and they're based in israel can a guy get in on those Chanukah bonuses
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anthonypants posted:apparently google's employee gifts this year aren't a new pixel whatever but instead the gifts are going to charity Fortune posted:Theyre used to getting fancy new gadgets.
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ShadowHawk posted:http://fortune.com/2016/12/09/alphabet-donated-its-employees-holiday-gifts-to-charity/ dumping e-waste on the public. what a way to show corporate citizin responsibility 😡😡😡😡😡
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my bonus is I get a traditional pension and I plan to live to 106, mostly out of spite
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Dec 10, 2016 11:14
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giving their employees a pixel would be an act of charity
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lol at anyone who doesn't think its only so they can write off the charitable donations which they can't do on employee gifts
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ufarn posted:giving their employees a pixel would be an act of charity if my employer gave me a pixel for Christmas I'd be interviewing before New Years
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Dec 10, 2016 13:47
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:my bonus is I get a traditional pension lol as if it won't be cut right after you retire
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YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:lol at anyone who doesn't think its only so they can write off the charitable donations which they can't do on employee gifts employee compensation, including bonuses, is fully deductible. this is just google trying to break their employees' expectation of bonuses in a way that makes anyone who complains look like an rear end in a top hat.
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YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:lol at anyone who doesn't think its only so they can write off the charitable donations which they can't do on employee gifts corporate taxes don't work that way. Shifty Pony posted:employee compensation, including bonuses, is fully deductible. this, plus a donation to education is usually part of a plan to get the school district hooked on their hardware and software, driving future revenue. so it's not exactly charity.
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Dec 10, 2016 15:29
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The Management posted:corporate taxes don't work that way. charity without all that pesky selflessness
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zen death robot posted:mine does and they're based in israel same, weirdly
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Dec 10, 2016 16:38
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Shifty Pony posted:employee compensation, including bonuses, is fully deductible.
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Bhodi posted:it would have been better to give employees a couple of charity choices to make it feel more individualistic and to give employees some agency but google sorry alphabet lacks the sort of empathy it'd take for that to occur to them oh I'm sure it occurred to them but it was nixed in favor of strategic donations to get the the highest ecosystem lock-in in return for the donations.
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I heard there's also different tax implications if employees get to choose the charity
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lol all my co-workers are legit pissy about it. hell i remember when it used to be a thousand in cash 
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:lol all my co-workers are legit pissy about it. hell i remember when it used to be a thousand in cash they should be pissed. paying a thousand bucks to employees making six figures should be nothing to the company and yet it makes everyone feel disproportionately happy for what is essentially a sub 1% bonus.
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Shifty Pony posted:employee compensation, including bonuses, is fully deductible.
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you one year we got some lovely lg surplus gen 1.0 android smartwatch. people will get over it.
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i think our christmas gifts at work were chromecasts one year and that's been it, but at least the chromecast has found decent use at home.The Management posted:they should be pissed. paying a thousand bucks to employees making six figures should be nothing to the company and yet it makes everyone feel disproportionately happy for what is essentially a sub 1% bonus. also this. it's one of those psychology things where you make people feel appreciated so they hate working for you a little less.
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Dec 10, 2016 19:33
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lol my last job was at a boring corporate hellhole and I got at least 20% bonus every year
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Dec 10, 2016 19:38
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The Management posted:they should be pissed. paying a thousand bucks to employees making six figures should be nothing to the company and yet it makes everyone feel disproportionately happy for what is essentially a sub 1% bonus. and to make it a surprise too. whoever okay-ed this move probably watches Christmas Vacation and thinks the boss was being overly generous by giving Clark an entire year of the Jelly of the Month Club.
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qirex posted:lol my last job was at a boring corporate hellhole and I got at least 20% bonus every year the gift is a totally separate thing from the yearly bonus
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Sagebrush posted:i've never worked in a place that gave christmas bonuses. lol i usually get a xmas bonus from one of my bosses personal acct and i give bonues to my direct reports out of my personal account. hosed up i guess.
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ArmZ posted:lol as if it won't be cut right after you retire I'm actually in a private union and not a public one so I will be OK no matter how many scott walkers become governor
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Dec 10, 2016 21:24
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lol the holidays are barely acknowledged by upper mgmt which is fine as long as they don't mind us all taking all our vacation at the end of the year
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Dec 10, 2016 21:37
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my username should have been "Six Figgy Bonus"
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carry on then posted:lol the holidays are barely acknowledged by upper mgmt The Indian guys at work, onshore and off, take vacations that exceed a month sometimes and it makes management seethe and fume. Lol American workers could learn a lot from how Indians handle vacation.
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Citizen Tayne posted:The Indian guys at work, onshore and off, take vacations that exceed a month sometimes and it makes management seethe and fume. Lol
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Dec 10, 2016 21:55
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a months vacation (or more) per year is standard for indians, no matter where we are.
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anthonypants posted:yeah but these are google employees. they are absolutely the type of assholes who will get mad at google over this. the type of person who already has the latest pixel but they wanted a second one and they're mad. you wouldn't be mad about your pay being reduced by $500 next year?
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hobbesmaster posted:you wouldn't be mad about your pay being reduced by $500 next year?
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Dodoman posted:a months vacation (or more) per year is standard for indians, no matter where we are. One guy went back to Visakhapatnam for a two week vacation and his manager yelled at him for taking two weeks off, so he used all his banked vacation and spent six weeks there instead. Lol
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Citizen Tayne posted:One guy went back to Visakhapatnam for a two week vacation and his manager yelled at him for taking two weeks off, so he used all his banked vacation and spent six weeks there instead. Lol lol. i'd probably have done the same thing but stayed in the US after the inital two weeks.
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an Indian wedding takes like 3 weeks and they probably have a lot of cousins
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