Bonus and Increment letter

FInally received my bonus and increment letter today. Anticipated it since Wed and the increment turned out to be what I had expected. We were expecting the bonus to be quite fruitful for 2005 but its actually lesser than what we were initially told. Our sales for last year was quite good but as they lost a tender for this year for one of the products, they had expected a drop in sales this year thus they did not want to risk declaring too much and the books wun look too good for this year.

My bonus is exactly $8 less than last year, still not too bad, cannot complain. Increment is at least about 4% which is a consolation too. Was expecting something lower than that. Regardless, I should still be contented as most people might not be as lucky as us...

Some of my colleagues were feeling rather disappointed or rather immune where some were surprised by their increments. Anyway at least we get some $$$ and its time to pamper ourselves for our hard work for the past year!