Ok Mutley, Let me rephrase it so don't loose your marbles.
Profit sharing is a benefit, It's part of "the terms and conditions of your employment with the Company set in this letter, in the Employment Regulation Manual, etc etc". It's not some kind of generous gift. It's exactly like my annual leave ticket, I take it because it's mine, period.
I am happy to get it, like anybody else, however, I feel it's fiddled with. It seems that regardless how much we beat expectations, the profit share is always a "don't give too much" figure.
A bonus is (like HD rightly defined) some extra money, not contractual. And that.....we will never get.....
That detail of the way, I hope you get the essence of my post now....Thanks.