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My boss is really generous around Christmas as he would give us 3 different Christmas gifts. I want to use this post as a thank you to his generosity!

1. He would treat all his employees and one family member one night of free accommodation the night of our annual Christmas party. Usually how it works is that we would all drive to a hotel or resort (1-2 hour from our office) one Saturday in December and have a Christmas dinner/party. After the celebration, we could just go to our hotel room which makes everyone participating more free to drink alcohol. This makes the party much more fun because everyone is more relaxed as no one needs to worry about driving late at night.
2. For the week between Christmas and New Year’s, employees at my company are allowed to take a week of non-paid vacation even if they do not have enough vacation days. This is a no questions asked typed of vacation so we can take off as we need/want.
3. Every year, my boss gives each employee a $100 gift certificate from a department store. It used to be Robinson’s May gift cards but it changed to Macy’s gift cards last year after Robinson’s May was acquired. One of my colleague actually tried to get my boss to change it to Nordstorm gift cards because it sells higher end products but my boss said it’s not good to change it as people have been saving the gift cards to buy larger items. At first I thought he was making an excuse but we found out afterwards that someone from the office actually have more than $1000 worth of gift cards saved up!

So a Big Thank You!

How about you? Does your workplace do anything for Christmas? If you get $100 gift cards each year, how will you save/spend/invest it?