And all I got was an automated email wishing me “well”.
Not even a mention in a Teams chat, let alone any kind of reward. I used to listen to my grandfather and father tell stories of getting gold lapel pins or entire vacations for 5, 10, 15-year anniversaries.
My reward? I got put on a PIP last week. Oh, and our government has just decided that no matter how long you’ve worked somewhere, you’ll only get one year paid out. If I was fired today, they’d have to accumulate 10 years of extra payments. Later this year, just the one. Which is what they’re waiting for undoubtedly.
So, happy monday everyone! As a gift to myself I’ve decided to give extra little fucks about anything today.
EDIT: thanks for all the well-wishes, it’s honestly appreciated! Warms my cold, dead heart a mite.
I get one extra day of PTO per year, that’s it. The world changed and people from the old version if it don’t understand why we are pissed about it.
Congrats! I have been at my job 19 years now and we used to have that program where at 10 years you got a watch at the yearly holiday party. They sold the company the year before my 10th, and I think I was the last year to get the watch before they shut all of that down… used to be every 5 years after the 10th, you got something. Now? You don’t even get anything of acknowledgement, and there definitely is no holiday party anymore. They wonder why nobody cares.
It’s really horrible how little most companies value their employees. The employees who generate the bulk of the value for the company.
I was lucky. My company gave me the option of 6 weeks of paid vacation or 12 weeks off at half pay. You better believe I took the 12 weeks. That was two years ago now, and I’ve heard rumors that they’re trying to get rid of the perk for people who hit ten years in the future.
Also there’s no perks for anything after 10 years. Probably time for me to start looking for something new…
My company used to give a watch upon reaching 10 years of service. I was the last one to receive it; they changed the policy to 5 days of annual leave, usable in the same year.
When I got to 5 years at my company, I was publicly recognized like 5 months later. Corporations are soulless.
I know and that makes it much easier not to take it personally. But I was a part of this company when they still did those things, and elaborately too. Got bought out by a multinational 5 years ago and that’s when all the “personal” stuff almost immediately took a backseat…
I got a pen after 5 years at my old company. I guess it’s a nice pen, but still just a pen.
Coworker buddy of mine received a thank you card in the interoffice mail for his fifteenth anniversary. It was a thank you from the wrong company. Evidently they started contracting with some outside firm that handles a bunch of large corporations and they couldn’t even get the company correct.
Nowadays it’s an email and a gift card which barely covers lunch, even at 20+ years.
Congrats on the 10 year anniversary!
Some employers don’t care. After 10 years you’ve likely shown to provide value without being horrible towards others. We still try to do something but being small sometimes things fall through the cracks.
Given you’re on Lemmy, you likely wouldn’t appreciate an Alexa device or Chromecast.
What would you have appreciated? What are the sort of gifts are not overly specific but would still be suitable?
Considering it’s a “career” I’ve felt stuck in for a few years now, one of the only things holding me back from just enjoying myself is/was my sense of loyalty to an entity that is wholly incapable of returning the sentiment. That means the last thing keeping me here now is just the paycheck.
By ignoring me completely on this day, they’ve essentially given me one of the greatest gifts they possibly could have: they have freed me from the very last vestiges of me caring. I simply DGAF anymore. I’ll still show up every day and do my tasks. Maybe document something. Shoot the shit with whomever is at the coffee machine or water cooler.
But come 17.00 I will close all my windows, including the ones titled “urgent!”, turn off my PC and go home and simply REFUSE to even entertain a single thought about all of this. All that time is mine now, 100%.
Thanks for the liberty. Anything else honestly would’ve had me feeling guilty again and second guessing my next steps. Not anymore though.
Lol they used to do that where I work too but they got rid of it years ago. Now the only service related things you get are an extra week of vacation and a different colored hard hat at 5 years, and your name on the digital board every 5 years after that.
an extra week of vacation Damn, that’s nothing to scoff at! That’s 1/4th of a full paycheck. I would kill for that at this point lol. Guess continued employment - for now - seems to be the most I can hope for.
I know how you feel. Same for me last year and when I asked what do I get, the boss said “oh you get Annual Leave”. Yep, I do… but that’s the mandated minimum. What are YOU giving ME? Jack shit apparently.
Hug your kids. Kiss your wife. Fuck work.
Heck. Only place I made 10 years was a university.
At least I did get recognized for 15 years of service, they just misspelled my name, so I think I may be changing my name to “Levin”.
About a decade ago, I became the fortunate recipient of some very unfortunate information. A C-level exec at another office mistakenly printed a document to the printer outside my office door.
It was a spreadsheet related to the yet unannounced acquisition of the company detailing who was going to stay and who was getting canned.
I got a couple things from that unfortunate Easter egg. First, inside information which allowed me to get the hell out of there well before the shit hit the fan.
Second, a sobering reminder that no matter what any organization says about their culture or their employees, at the end of the day, you are nothing but a name on spreadsheet. Whether your name has green highlights or red is entirely subjective. It may even be up to someone who doesn’t even know who you are. If the company stands to make a potential profit from firing you, they will. Feel free to treat them the same way.
I think this is why I don’t want to go back to big corporate jobs.
They have layoffs and you have zero merits or value unless you can get someone in the room to vouch for you.
The deeper the org chart the less worth you have, and there are a lot of people who are not worth much but are great at socializing and will always get prioritized.
Sorry dude, they aren’t all like that. Our pres made my personalized 10 year award with his home workshop equipment. It was a great gesture… Also came with some spending cash and a donation to a charity of my choice
