Originally Posted by Vlade

At our airport, we do a Screener of the Quarter award which results in lunch with the FSD, your name on a big plaque in our office at the airport and an additional 8 days off. At the end of this recent year we had a Screener of the Year award which included all of the above with an additional dinner gift certificate for $100 to a nice place to eat, and choice of schedule for the upcoming 6 months. That's the extent of our awards. We give "attaboys/girls" when someone does something worth recognizing. Usually each shift takes care of its employees. I work PM baggage and we have a pot luck dinner at least once a month. Managers and Supervisors are always chipping in and bringing us food after a good week or something. And usually we have a cook out for the ENTIRE airport after each Furniture Market which occurs twice a year, once during spring and once during Fall. Our fall furniture market will conclude next week so I'm sure we'll do something nice like a cookout and usually we screeners do something for the Mobile screener force which comes in to help us out during these times. We just started doing bonuses recently which will occur once a year. The bonuses range from $250 to around $1000...the reason I say around 1000 is because no one actually knows if anyone reached that high but we were told that they could be up to 1500 but none of us front line people seen that. We generally keep a good morale and these things are what do it. I think our shift has the best morale because we are so involved with each other. We celebrate everyones birthday by pitching in and gettin a present and cake. We are all like a family on the PM baggage shift at our airport. None of the other shifts prefer to do any of the things we do and their morale is usually a little lower than ours. But we like doing things together....cookouts, wings night every tuesday, bowling....just things to do together...oh and christmas parties. That's what we do and I think it's enough. I agree that the spending on the party in discussion is way too much. Hopefully they will be dealt with but probably not.