【职场点睛】我要不要退奖金？

THE PROBLEM  问题

I work for a US bank in London and have just been given a bonus for 2008, which was 60 per cent of my 2007 bonus. It is a sign of the respect my managers have for me and I am grateful for it. However, my bank has received billions of dollars from the US government, so that my bonus is being paid for by taxpayers - which seems wrong. What should I do? Give it back? Give it to charity? Resign? Or keep it on the grounds that the bank is entitled to pay staff what it needs to keep them?


我为一家设在伦敦的美国银行工作，刚刚收到2008年的奖金，金额是我2007年奖金的60%。这表示主管对我的尊重，我对此心怀感激。不过，我所在的银行接受了美国政府数十亿美元的财政支持，因此我的奖金是纳税人支付的--这似乎不太对劲。我该怎么办？退还？捐给慈善事业？辞职？还是留着它，理由是银行有义务给想留住的员工支付奖金？