<prompt> Human: Some companies pay out personal and company bonuses at the end of the year. Today I had an admin give her two-weeks notice and will be missing out on her personal bonus 2,000 and her company bonus 5,000. If she had stuck around through the company party in early December she would had gotten both. She makes about 45k so this would have been quite the boost.  <response>: Retention bonuses really do work. My company pays bonuses in March for the previous year. If I even think about leaving in the second half of the year, I always think, oh, but I have to wait til March because of my bonus. Then in March Im usually so caught up in current work Im not thinking about leaving! 