I got.....................nothing.................
I worked at a major engineering firm.
No ten-year or 20-year recognitions for anyone.
No big deal.
Company give woman employment for eleven years and this is the thanks they get.
She was employed. Unless they didn’t pay her, she gave them nothing.
Paid. She got paid.
Your employer owes you nothing more than a paycheck. But… morale is important in any organization. Too many companies don’t understand that.
I once worked for a principal who’d provide everyone free ice cream for lunch (out of his own pocket) if teacher attendance that day was 100%. We’d all go the extra mile for that guy.
Interestingly enough, that principal was once an army infantryman. He understood the concept of morale. Today’s principals are all whiz kids. They don’t have a clue.
I got a tie tack after 20 years!
I think it is a sweet gesture.
My whole company was let go by a guy on one of those desk speaker phones, severance pay??? Nope, just 30 minutes to clear out.
The fact she posted on reddit is pretty big tell. Reddit is a leftist hell hole.
I have been running my own company for 25 years, sacrificing to make payroll every week even when there is no money for our family, available every day including vacations, putting up our house and other assets as collateral, going into debt to start business etc.
A candy bar would be nice. Even a Hershey Kiss would be wonderful.
I worked at one company for 10 years. They had a catalog you could pick gifts from, depending on your length of service. I picked a Walkman at 5 years and a set of suitcases at ten years.
The company I work for now does a bit better, they give rewards for a job well done and also service awards. They have pretty nice gifts you can select from and you can also save up your rewards points through the years and purchase more big ticket items.
34 years with the same outfit, I got a pin. Well actually 3 pins because all they had were 10 year pins so they gave me 3.
One year, at a hospital I worked at, for National Nurse’s Day, we nurses were given plastic whistles. The genius who thought that was appropriate told us she thought it was a good idea, so if we were ever accosted in the parking lot, we could blow the whistle to get help.
I’d rather have that candy bar than the silly lapel pin that I’ll never wear.
sounds about right. IT keeps our school district running, we get squat and I will probably get less than that after spending 26 years here.
After 25 years of dedicated service I got laid off because I had reached the age when my pension benefits started to increase. Nothing like starting over at age 50.
Companies that want to keep people should act like it.
Employees that want to stay should act like it.
Imbalances by mass migration, new tech and other events skew the balance.
Unscrupulous people exploit those. Naive people get overrun. Decent people treat others as they would be treated.