What are your best and worst Christmas bonuses?

I got a $50 gift card to Target last year.

I once got a tiny picture frame with the company logo on it. This was before photoshop and editing, so no pictures were small enough for this frame.

In 2004, I received a coffee mug with the company logo on it stuffed with assorted candy.

Even though this was before the economy started to suffer, that's probably the best (at least to them) Christmas bonus that I had ever received. No other company that I had worked for ever gave us bonuses.

I have a generous employer now, but in my late teens I worked at the fuel desk of a truck stop. The business owners also owned a small gas station in town. One of our "perks" was free car washes at the other station any time we wanted (during business hours).

One year, they gave everyone a 10 pack of holiday-themed candy bars past their expiration date. These were supposed to be sold, but because they were expired they could not sell them. They received credit for them without having to return the candy bars. That was our gift.

Oh, they also threw in a sheet of 12 coupons good for a free car wash - something that was already free for all employees. Thanks to their mock generosity, I decided to "share the wealth" by making dozens of copies of the coupon sheet and handing them out to people I knew.

I wouldn't do something like that now, but I would probably tell the employer not to give expired candy and coupons for something we already got for free and call it a gift.

A few years ago got an IPAD MIni

My husband works for a small company. Each employee gets $500 bonus at Christmas-time.

Best was $4000


worst was $1000

I got a $25 Walmart gift card. I had to be there 2 years before I even got that.