Annual bonus?

[Dave 123]

Inspired by @jayonabike and the generosity of his wife, do you/have you received any annual bonus?

I’m a big believer that the recipient should spend it on something they’d like. Years ago Mrs Dave received £100 for passing a qualification, then spent it on the weekly shop, which didn’t please me at all.

This year I have replaced my Garmin and passed my old one on to Mrs Dave.

So have you bought anything nice with a bonus?

 

[Beebo]

I bought an Omega watch with my first bonus in about 2001, still wear it everyday, and it has gone up in value.

 

[palinurus]

When I worked for Celotape in 1974 before going off to university, I was given a roll of silver sticky tape with Christmas trees on it as my Xmas bonus.

The company I work for acquired Sellotape* and I got a roll of it in a special presentation tin at Christmas (although I also got an M&S voucher). Thankfully not presented to me by a senior manager- guy from the warehouse bought them around.

*I work in R&D but for something else entirely.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

When I worked for Celotape in 1974 before going off to university, I was given a roll of silver sticky tape with Christmas trees on it as my Xmas bonus. The chief executive came round and gave everyone in the Borehamwood research labs a similar present. How classy is that?

I'd have told him to stick it.

 

[vickster]

Not for donkey’s years

A recent director dividend bought a certain van Nic bike

 

[subaqua]

We got a £50 M&S voucher one year , because we weren’t going to get any pay rise ...

I ended up buying trousers ... for work ..

 

[User10571]

Not a bonus as such, but a rebate for having over-payed HMRC, saw to me getting my first Van Nic - and to think that I dithered over what I should do with the money.

 

[gbb]

I generally get a weeks wages bonus at Xmas...this year we brought a new tv with it. We tend to try and buy something significant..for want of a better word, so we seem to have had it for free.

Between 2000 and 2010 I used to get stupid bonuses, and my last year at that company I got £2500 bonus, £1000 more than most other years....and yet I took less home after tax . That was a very cash rich, demanding company who repaid handsomly for hard work, a fair bit of foreign travel and long hours .Those days, I tended to put it towards our summer holidays.

 

[k_green]

My first adult road bike, a few years ago. Definitely spend bonuses on something good!

 

[NorthernDave]

If I get a bonus this year, it's going towards us renewing our vows in September.
Somehow, Mrs ND has put up with me for 20 years...

 

[screenman]

I have always got more pleasure out of spending money on the wife and kids than I have myself, so if I did ever get a bonus which is very unlikely it would be spent on them.

 

[Cavalol]

I used mine as a deposit on a Scomadi scooter. Double win really as I love it and my missus went mad.

 

[cosmicbike]

This year saw it buy some furniture, perhaps not what I wanted to spend it on, but given we we've only bought 1 piece of new furniture in the 20 years we've been living together, probably an appropriate way to spend it.

 

[Mrs M]

For my 30th year at the same employer I received a £50 voucher.
I purchased a necklace I really wanted (but had to put a fair bit towards it).

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Fingers crossed I'll be getting a new bike this year on the back of mine.