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I've worked at a company for several years now, small business, and almost every, not almost,

every year I've been there so far at the end of our fiscal year, my boss, who wholly owns

the company, issues bonuses based on how well the company performed our fiscal year,

and I've gotten it every year, like I said.

Now, this year, all of a sudden, no bonus ever came.

There was never any mention or communication of bonuses not going out this year.

And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, I see that my boss has bought a brand new car.

That's kind of not really besides the point, I guess that my boss has bought a brand new car and that's kind of

not really the side to point I guess but yeah so my question is you know is that ethical slash can

they do that the not issue bonuses and not even communicate it and then the two punch question is

what's the best way to approach that conversation with my boss I mean in my mind I'm picturing

Clark Griswold when he doesn't get his bonus.

That's exactly how I feel. Yeah. I literally was about to say that.

I mean, I mean, if you've come to expect it, yeah, it's disappointing if you don't get it.

And it's even more disappointing if it wasn't communicated. I could see you wanting that.

But at the end of the day, my bigger question is, how is the business

doing? Because it might be that they're suffering and there's not that profit in order to hand out

bonuses as it were. And so that's my first question. And I also, I think you know that you can

strike from the record that he bought a brand new vehicle because that's neither here nor there.

But how's the company doing?

Well, I mean, as far as I've been, you know, informed and I'm not in the finance department or anything

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