At one place, the owner would throw nice Christmas parties, and the Managers would get bonus checks: usually $1,000, and a really good year got me $2,000.
Sure enough, buried in the January statement, would be a charge-back for whatever amount all of that cost...

The fun part was keeping track of whatever funny or dark-humor things my crew would endure, and buy them something that related to that for Christmas.
My guys were like family, and 30 years later we're still on warm terms. I received more than I gave, really...