WTF is a "bonus"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 11:55, 2 replies, latest was 9 years ago)

Apparently, it's a 'thank you' for all our hard work over the last year.
Basically, it's a bone they throw us once a year in lieu of paying actual decent wages.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Feb 2015, 11:57, Reply)

Is it worth having?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 11:58, Reply)

My wife just paid off our credit cards with her bonus
My bonus is usually 2 free drinks in the campus bar at Christmas.
( Peej, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:01, Reply)

That's nice.
Nice new clean slate. You can start ramping then up again.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:02, Reply)

Waaaay ahead of you!

( Peej, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:02, Reply)

I can't remember the last time I used a credit card
which is a bit silly, seeing as we've got one of those ones that pays cash back for doing your shopping.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:02, Reply)

We use them all the time for the clubcard points

( Peej, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:03, Reply)

I put everything through a credit card
more protection, improves credit rating and you get vouchers and stuff.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:04, Reply)

I dread to think what my credit rating might be these days
seeing as I have no mortgage, no loans, and don't use credit cards.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:06, Reply)

eleventyone
NUMBERWANG!
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:07, Reply)

Any money is worth having, I suppose, no matter how fewer.
It's only in the low three figures, though. I'm not going to go out and buy diamonds, put it that way.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:01, Reply)

A few hundred quid is a weekend away I suppose.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:02, Reply)

It's the money she made from elderley people who are entitled to free scripts
but insist on paying something towards them anyway.
( Muns, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 11:57, Reply)

As if ANYONE entitled to free scripts
has ever wanted to pay ANYTHING for ANYTHING.

pay 50p for a pack of ibuprofen? No thanks, I'll get my doctor to prescribe some and I'll get them free.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Feb 2015, 11:59, Reply)

I do that.
Medical Exemption Cert ftw!
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:01, Reply)

Except the whole process (doctors appointment etc) probably cost the taxpayer about £50
FUCK YOU SOCIALISM
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:07, Reply)

Pharmacies get paid about nine quid for filling a prescription,
minus the patient contribution.
That means every free pack of paracetamol we give out costs the taxpayer huge amounts of money. It would be cheaper to just give them a box off the shop floor.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Feb 2015, 12:11, Reply)