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By Kaylz - 20/06/2016 03:10 - Australia - Brisbane

Today, my boss decided that he is taking the whole company on a 4 day team building retreat over Christmas. Anyone who doesn't show wont get their Christmas bonus. Now I get to decided on whether i spend Christmas with my kids or get my Christmas bonus. FML
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Andrewx8 12

Stay with your kids, family before others.

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InfiniteSunshine 32

So even on holidays your boss wants you to spend it with work. You already spend most of your days there, you don't need to do it over Christmas too, be with your kids. Trust me, being with them is a lot more important, especially to them, than the money. He probably scheduled it for those days because it's already a holiday and doesn't take up company time, but if he wants to have team building, he should be scheduling it for a less important time. Tearing your employees away from their family over Christmas and threatening them with money, that's not very good team building.

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Andrewx8 12

Stay with your kids, family before others.

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GhostFox 33

I guess I should explain what I meant, since the it might have been misunderstood. Explain to your kids that you can stay home from the event, but it means less money to spare, or you can go, miss Christmas, but have extra money. Obviously, this only applies if you don't need either the money for majorly important things or that your kids aren't very, very young. Otherwise, you unfortunately have to choose and hope it doesn't bite a you or your kids down the road.

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InfiniteSunshine 32

So even on holidays your boss wants you to spend it with work. You already spend most of your days there, you don't need to do it over Christmas too, be with your kids. Trust me, being with them is a lot more important, especially to them, than the money. He probably scheduled it for those days because it's already a holiday and doesn't take up company time, but if he wants to have team building, he should be scheduling it for a less important time. Tearing your employees away from their family over Christmas and threatening them with money, that's not very good team building.

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Alien8 6

The greatest team building starts with a common enemy. OP's boss is making a noble sacrifice!

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HyperTek 16

If it's only 4 days why not both? Unless it's on Christmas

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smallandroid 26

It's "over" Christmas, so it is probably on Christmas, yes.

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kernousse_fml 13

maybe it's a test of your integrity... see if you can set your priorities straight or are just too greedy.

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krfenton8 15

I mean, if your kids aren't super young, you could probably celebrate Christmas a little earlier or later than the actual day of Christmas depending on when the vacation takes place.

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19foxy81 8

Bring the kids & tell ur boss he gets to pay the extra expense since he planned it that way

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