:-You and I have been here long enough to know that as our productivity and therefore profits go up, the profit share goes down as they figure out devious new ways of under calculating the years figures. I consider it part of my pay and I need it to pay off the bills to mount up over the year.
But that is the problem as I see it, it is not part of our pay and if you think of it as such it will never be enough.
I simply choose to be happy with any bonus and vent my anger at the real problems as you correctly put it :- a decent pay rise and an index linked rise every year instead of the begging bowl approach we have now.
I find it much easier to be happy sometimes rather than angry and upset all the time. It makes working and living here easier. Cheers.