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Your comment was downvoted and flagged though, which seems like the appropriate outcome.
Sometimes comments like this get the point across in ways some self-aggrandizing $WALLOFTEXT can't.
€7,300 is chump change.
Spoken like a true tech bro.
In most suburban areas of the US, that's ~3-4 months rent.
Or more than a year of car payments.
Or a year and a half of groceries for an average American family.
"Chump change" LOL.
1) You don't know the size of the bonus relative to their annual salary. If this is a 10%+ bonus, it's sizable.
2) The bonus was given to all -- "have jointly agreed to pay all eligible employees a special lump sum bonus of up to 7,300 euros"
I can't recall an American company that gave out bonuses that satisfied both criteria listed above in the last 3-5 years of intense hardship.
Edit: Added specificity on bonus eligibility
Looks like a month's pay for the top end, and several months for the lower end, depending on what the bonus rank cutoff is (interns aren't going to get it)
My wife works is a doctor and works in medicine and is "over the moon" when she gets her ~$3k bonus each year.
I can't even bring myself to tell her what my bonus was anymore and just combine it all into my salary when we talk finances around tax time.
The current situation notwithstanding, we are quite lucky in this industry right now.