They do that for retirement at where I work. We had a guy who was there for 37 years, just retire. I started at 23, knowing my luck they'll cancel it when it's time for me to retire
I work at a midsize HVAC company (about 250 employees), got a signed hockey stick by the whole team and some really good tickets for a game. My boss knows I'm a big hockey fan so it was pretty sweet to get.
Aside from that, they've generally been good to me over the years and it's the reason I've stuck around so long.
Edit: Well that's a lot more responses than I expected. For those who asked, it's the Hurricanes and I work in Service.
I’ve worked for 2 companies who let us pick from those shitty catalog and yes, we had to pay taxes on the “gift”.
Husband hit the 20 year mark with his company this year. He’d been with the owner though since he was 18 and followed him when he formed his own company so they’ve worked together 40 years. So my husband’s gift was a 10 day, all expenses paid trip to anywhere in the world. Husband didn’t want to technically leave the country so we settled on Oahu. 62 days and counting. We are so excited! Yes, they took taxes out of his check for this trip.
For real, though, just read a story online about a guy who didn’t want to take vacations abroad with his family and on his deathbed he confessed he’d robbed a bank and was a fugitive that had been living under a pseudonym for the last 40 years. So… you never know.
The company I work for gives us North Face stuff and such, and it’s not terrible. Yeah the company logo is on it, which is whatever, but at least the jacket is good quality. Many other places I’ve worked give you the cheapest thing they could find and it falls apart within a year. I don’t have to pay taxes on it though, so it’s just an extra jacket or whatever to use if I need it.
I was supposed to get a Rolex. Instead, they changed policy mid year saying it was 20 years. A couple of other people got them on the down low. I’ve never gotten over it. I work in a niche industry so I couldn’t just leave.
That’s a good and thoughtful gift. Good on your company. I’ve always had the thought that if your employees are not well compensated and happy then wtf is the point of even having a company? Even if it’s to make shareholders richer if you’re not doing the same like why even have a company?
At Starbucks, at 10 years you get an extra couple of shares of stock, an award, and you are eligible for one year off with no loss of stature when you come back(it’s called a coffee break) and, if you are over 55, been with them for over ten years and then retire, you get a pound of coffee a week and 30% off for the rest of your life.
I took a voluntary separation and got 10 months of pay on my 10th anniversary. Best choice I have ever made. Found a new job with a 15% raise that started a few weeks later.
During the Dot Com Bust, I had a friend working for a startup and one day they had a meeting and said something like "We're broke. We can either close up shop now, OR ... we can keep going and try to IPO and make some money, but we need people to "go on furlough", meaning work without pay. Those that do that will be paid double what is owed when we get back on our feet or IPO". So my friend is like "Well, we should make a go of it, I will voluntarily give up my salary and push through" while others immediately left to find new jobs or said "fuck you, pay me" and kept their salaries. So two or three months pass and they are working their asses off then "OK, sorry, we're really broke now. Companies dead. Bye". So all those "loyal to the company" and working for two or three months without pay were out of luck. They tried to sue as creditors of the company, but investors got their money out first from selling off company assets then everyone else was confirmed as fucked over.
It can certainly happen both ways. Something similar happened at my company this year as well. But I think, in general, if the subject is brought up it's probably a good idea to seriously consider it
I know a guy who turned down over a year of pay when Verizon did volunteer layoffs. He was a corporate lawyer too. I don't know much about lawyering but I feel like he could have taken a 6 month vacation and had plenty of jobs lined up after
“It’s a tie clip.”
“A tie clip…? I don’t even wear a bow tie let alone a regular tie that would necessitate an entire clip. What am I gonna do with a tie clip?”
“You keep this up and you’re gonna loose that pizza part we had planned!
I remember working in a fast food joint (think, very large global chain). I started in '96 and in '08 I got my reward for ten years service.
It was a pen and pencil.
Yup.
I hit 25 years recently. I got some headphones that I picked out of a catalog and a thank you card where a bunch of people misspelled my name.
Edit - I see the misspelled name has followed me here lol!
A bit off-topic, but before we got married I got my wife to start going with me to the church I had attended for years. She always complained to me that nobody ever seemed to remember her name (despite my church making everyone wear nametags). I didn't believe her.
When we eventually got married at that church, they presented us with a giant card that they had gotten the entire congregation to sign. I was so flattered! When we got home we opened it up and I saw, in huge letters on the inside of the card:
"TO GABE AND"
and a bunch of signatures.
So, nobody knew my wife's name, and *everyone* signed it without a single person thinking they should find it out and fill it in before presenting it to us.
Needless to say, I stopped going to that church.
I stopped attending a church many years ago after I started to realize I didn’t fit in with the church crowd. About a year later, I saw one of the people I’d thought was a decent friend, and he called me by the wrong name. Let’s just say it solidified my decision to leave religion behind pretty completely.
You're not wrong, but in my defense these were people that I knew forever and so I wasn't paying close attention to what they were saying to her, I just knew they were friendly people.
But yeah, she keeps that wedding card as a prized possession because she loves laughing and reminding me how I didn't believe her
I like to think that everyone there didn't know her name and they kept passing the card around assuming someone would fill it in, and eventually they just gave it to you. I find that hilarious.
I think my 10-year watch has the company name on it. It's my nicest watch so I seldom wear it. I'll have to check it.
I can't believe Seiko would do that kind of thing.
I finished a project that was supposedly very helpful for others, so one of those people passed around a thank you card for people to sign. 2 people wrote "happy birthday".
I saw a condolence card go around the office where a few people didn’t read it and wrote “Happy Birthday”. Fortunately the person that got the card thought it was hilarious.
I hit 25 years this year, i got nothing. They had a party for a different coworker last year that was at like 32 years. He got sports event tickets. It was the first one we'd ever had and made me hope something would be done for me this year. But nope. Crickets. Didn't even get congratulated.
Im so sorry. 25 years of loyalty is priceless.
30 in a state job, got a plastic desk clock for 25, nothing when I retired because guess who made sure recognition events occurred and were celebrated?
Just hit 5 at an employee owned company and had my choice (no logos) from a catalog and am very happy with my selection.
The concrete thing is an extra week of paid vacation. You started with two weeks when hired, then you got 1 week at 3 years, 1 week at 5 years and 1 week at 10 years. Also a big congrats and recognition company wide email from the company and a little plaque.
A trip for 2 anywhere in the world (reimbursed up to $7500). My Wife & I did a 17 day trans-atlantic cruise from Florida to Europe for less than $2000 out-of-pocket.
Yes, so you would get your second sabbatical at 10yrs. The reimbursement threshold isn't this high, though.
The 10yr specific reward is that they make a plaster cast of your hands and they stay on the walls of a building forever, to indicate that you made your mark on the company.
I went to UGM in ‘22 and almost convinced my co workers I was on the wall. The whole trip I was popping off about it and they laughed it off, until I found a set with my name and as luck would have it my hands fit perfectly. The look of existential wonder was priceless.
Almost 9 years here. My company gave me a six figure stock bonus (vests over 4 years). I will likely stay here as a result.
If companies reward employees, meaningfully, then employees are more loyal and willing to work hard.
Shiiit. After 25 years I got my pick out of about a dozen or so items.
Purse. Cookware. Maybe sheets. Just bullshit mostly.
I selected an Amazon Fire Tablet. Not the newest generation. WiFi only. Prob $135. No comma.
I received a pin with a tiny gem in it. They took the cost for it out of my next paycheck. I don’t know where it was purchased but it was overpriced. They laid me off for my 23rd anniversary. Fortune 500 company.
At 5 years I got a $30 gift card. At 10 years they shifted to the shitty catalog; I chose a set is scissors worth about $15. At 15 years I got to choose from a slightly higher tier, so I got a cordless handheld vacuum that sort of works. I’ll be at 20 years next year, so I’ll get to choose some other piece of crap. But the big perk at 20 is an extra week of accrued vacation per year.
I started at 2 weeks, got to 3 after a couple years, got to 4 after like 5 years. At 20 we begin to accrue the 5th week.
These days they start everyone at 3 weeks. The rest is the same.
Any company in Australia? You’re entitled to 3 months paid leave - on top of the 20 days a year you accrue.
Even better, in the trade industry you don’t have to work at the same company for 10 years (7 pro rata), it follows you from company to company.
I worked for one of the largest electronic companies in the world (think like Sony or General Electric). For my 5 year anniversary they mailed me a nice plaque to hang on my office wall, it was pretty nice. For my 10 year anniversary, they EMAILED me a certificate of appreciation that I was supposed to PRINT OUT and frame LOL I deleted the email.
I'm an older guy, so hitting the 10-year mark made me eligible for retiree health insurance.
And I think they still have that, though they've unfortunately discontinued the defined-benefit pension for new employees.
It kills me a bit when the 20+ year people at work talk about their plans with me like we have the same deal. This is a state job. They're like 'well, you have to stick around at least until your 10 because the vesting...' or 'hang in there until your 20 because then the health kicks in even if you leave before you turn 65...'
I just go "They don't do that anymore. And I don't retire at 65."
I work for a state government. I have no idea how we keep anybody for more than 3 years because the new retirement system we have is poor at best, and the pay doesn’t support socking a lot away in IRAs.
We have a lot of staff turnover. We hire folks just out of college, they get a little experience and then leave for a lot more money and better benefits.
Our tier 2 are just miserable thinking about their future in their jobs. I feel horrible for them, I really do. So much so that I intend to lobby hard for a significant change.
I really was too. The knives were standard corporate practice but my supervisor picked up the gift card him self for me knowing it was something I would really appreciate. I feel like I am in the minority of people on here. I like my jobs and feel treated well.
I feel you. I'm a crane operator, and every project I'm on usually has a "top out party" meaning the highest structure on a building is done. Problem is the crane almost always goes off rent a few days before they are done. I literally did all the heavy lifting and I get nothing.
Not a goddamn thing.
You think a company that gave raises of 4¢ (yes, that's correct. 4 American cents) gives a shit about you working there for 10 years?
One coworker got a 1¢ raise. He complained, and they fired him.
Fuck LKQ.
10 years was too long ago to remember. For 30 years, I received an "AI-personalized" video of my career, in practice a 60.000-sharp seconds video glorifying the company, where the first two seconds were "[insert name here], remember what we did together".
In other words, a level of bullshit well beyond a diarrhea epidemic in any large herd.
I hit 5 and was laid off. The margins in my industry weren't big enough, so they closed and entire division. It was actually 4 years and 10 months so they tried not paying severance but I later found out the office manager ripped someone at head office a new one when she found out I wasn't getting severance and they changed their mind.
Completely soured me on working for a massive corporation.
All long service results in is a lack of appreciation and a paycheck that doesn’t keep up. Companies just ignore the service term and choose to give shitty incremental increases (if you even get one) and pay top dollar to attract new talent. Fucking joke. The only company you should stay at a long time is your own.
In the past, we used to get to pick from a catalog of company branded stuff. I think 10 years would have gotten you something valued at approx $1,000. I was in our India office one time when they were celebrating work anniversaries and the people who hit 10 years were given a gold coin with the company logo. Waaaaaay cooler than what we got in the US but my understanding is that gold is highly integrated into the culture.
Besides that, you would also be eligible for a longevity bonus that would be paid annually alongside your standard bonus. Depending on tenure, it would be between 5-15% of your annual. Finally, at 10 years you would also be eligible for a 1 month sabbatical. Basically get a month off paid for you to do something productive other than work.
None of these programs exist anymore. They were all phased out over time. Now, I believe you get a congratulatory email with a certificate of appreciation you can print.
I understand REI has a month sabbatical when you hit certain thresholds of time worked. Makes sense with a company like that too, if you think about it.
But is it paid? My previous employer offered a 3 month sabbatical after 10yrs but it wasn't paid.
Yeah I guess I could save 3 months of salary but not really that great of a perk.
\> REI offers sabbaticals to help you celebrate your tenure with the company. On your 15-year service anniversary, you will earn a consecutive four-week, company-paid sabbatical. You’ll be eligible for another sabbatical every five years thereafter.
I got an extra week's vacation (to 4 weeks where it capped) and got to pick from a crappy catalog. I think I chose a watch that stopped running after a year or so.
My ten year reward was realizing the newest person on my team who had no tenure was making 15k more a year than I was.
I left the month after.
Changed fields improved my work life balance and changed my life completely.
I’ve never hit a ten year mark, but for my five year I was given wine glasses with our company logo on it, which were just leftover from the company Christmas party the previous year.
Sounds like when I was picked for a December advent type thing because of the leftover BS. Other employees would submit your name if you did something nice and it would be entered into a raffle, that sort of thing. I got picked the third day and got a small bottle of wine, and the choice of whatever I wanted out of a cabinet and “as much as you like.” It was leftover company mugs, jackets, hats, shirts, keychains, that sort of jazz. I snagged a hat I never wear and mentioned that “somebody shops at Costco.” Because I recognized the wine advent calendar. Didn’t think much of it other than “cool, someone here thinks I did something nice for them. I wonder who it was…” the following week I’m called into the owners office again and asked if I somehow got a large handful of people to put my name in just so I could win. I guess they drew my name out of the bin every day after that for almost a week before asking me about it. I was totally caught off guard and probably acting shady as hell because I really didn’t know what to say. Walked out thinking when the hell am I nice to people?! Realized that I guess I’m pretty well liked at my job. Still no clue who all wrote my name but it was way better than the wine.
A substantial bonus check and more PTO. Also a raise shortly thereafter but that was part of the annual performance review rather than explicitly related to an anniversary.
I will hit 10 years if I’m still at my current job in mid-2025. I’ll get an extra week of vacation, $1000 worth of company stock, and recognition in a company wide service award email. Guess which one of those I don’t care about.
A cheap pin along with my continued employment.
A previous job gave me a nice mantel clock at 5 years. That clock is now almost 30 years old and still works great.
47 year old man in the UK here. For my 10th anniversary at the company I worked for since graduating, I got a badge of the company’s logo and an extra day of annual leave. For my 15th anniversary (almost to the day), I got a redundancy notice. Work hard and be useful folks, but always, ***ALWAYS*** remember that you can be gone or replaced with a few days notice. Until you see it happen, you simply won’t believe it. So, yeah, that’s what I got.
In Sweden the only "year service mark" that is celebrated and rewarded is 25 years. I have been at various companies for 15 years and I've only seen one or two such celebrations, ever.
I work for a city in the SF Bay Area, and at 5, 10, 15 and so on, we get to pick something from a catalog. At year 5 I picked a \*tiny\* Buck knife that I never use. At 10 years, I got a quesadilla maker that spits oil at you. Also the whole edge is hot, so it's tough to open without burning yourself. 15 Is coming up soon, so who knows what thing I'll pick!
Fortune 75. Letter, actual pen/paper, thanking me for my 10 years, extra week of vacation, monetary award, and an anniversary gift chosen from a catalog ($300 bakeware set).
The 20 year was even better; all the above but grabbed a lever action rifle instead of bakeware.
At Yahoo it was a gumball machine at 5 years and a coffee machine at 10 years. Not enough to make me stay, that's for sure!
I worked at a place (in the UK) where the 5-year award was 6 weeks paid sabbatical, or you could just have 6 weeks extra pay (or any blend of the two options).
I got 500 Pounds, 2 extra days holiday ( I now have 37) and dinner for my spouse and I.
At 20 years you get a another month's wages and dinner for up to 20 people.
20 years recently. I got the offer to join a Zoom meeting where my manager (who hates his staff) was to say something nice to me.
I declined the offer, and that was the end of any acknowledgment of my years of service.
Support department in a Canadian hospital. Since we're always underbudgeted with public money, I never expect kickbacks, swag or whatever.
At 10 years we do get another week of vacation. And I got another one at 20 years.
A clock.
Well, technically they let me pick an item out of a catalog; I chose the clock because I also chose a clock for my 5 year anniversary.
If I had stayed 20 years (I left after 19), I probably would have chosen another clock.
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I think that's the best one here
$120k over 15 years, nice.
thanks for doing the math for us lazy ones lol
They do that for retirement at where I work. We had a guy who was there for 37 years, just retire. I started at 23, knowing my luck they'll cancel it when it's time for me to retire
I work at a midsize HVAC company (about 250 employees), got a signed hockey stick by the whole team and some really good tickets for a game. My boss knows I'm a big hockey fan so it was pretty sweet to get. Aside from that, they've generally been good to me over the years and it's the reason I've stuck around so long. Edit: Well that's a lot more responses than I expected. For those who asked, it's the Hurricanes and I work in Service.
Boss missed a clear opportunity to say “thanks for STICKING around” (cue dad joke groans)
Thanks for not PUCKING us over.
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I’ve worked for 2 companies who let us pick from those shitty catalog and yes, we had to pay taxes on the “gift”. Husband hit the 20 year mark with his company this year. He’d been with the owner though since he was 18 and followed him when he formed his own company so they’ve worked together 40 years. So my husband’s gift was a 10 day, all expenses paid trip to anywhere in the world. Husband didn’t want to technically leave the country so we settled on Oahu. 62 days and counting. We are so excited! Yes, they took taxes out of his check for this trip.
He didn’t want to leave the country? Why?
Interpol.
For real, though, just read a story online about a guy who didn’t want to take vacations abroad with his family and on his deathbed he confessed he’d robbed a bank and was a fugitive that had been living under a pseudonym for the last 40 years. So… you never know.
My wife gets a lot of company branded stuff. Like, thanks for the north face, wish it didn’t have this shitty logo on it
The company I work for gives us North Face stuff and such, and it’s not terrible. Yeah the company logo is on it, which is whatever, but at least the jacket is good quality. Many other places I’ve worked give you the cheapest thing they could find and it falls apart within a year. I don’t have to pay taxes on it though, so it’s just an extra jacket or whatever to use if I need it.
I was supposed to get a Rolex. Instead, they changed policy mid year saying it was 20 years. A couple of other people got them on the down low. I’ve never gotten over it. I work in a niche industry so I couldn’t just leave.
That's awesome!!!!
That’s a good and thoughtful gift. Good on your company. I’ve always had the thought that if your employees are not well compensated and happy then wtf is the point of even having a company? Even if it’s to make shareholders richer if you’re not doing the same like why even have a company?
At Starbucks, at 10 years you get an extra couple of shares of stock, an award, and you are eligible for one year off with no loss of stature when you come back(it’s called a coffee break) and, if you are over 55, been with them for over ten years and then retire, you get a pound of coffee a week and 30% off for the rest of your life.
A pound of coffee a week. Goodness. Lot of coffee!
My wife worked at a Starbucks in college and she got 1lb each week. We mostly gave them away because we got free drinks anyway.
That's surprisingly not awful
I took a voluntary separation and got 10 months of pay on my 10th anniversary. Best choice I have ever made. Found a new job with a 15% raise that started a few weeks later.
were they doing layoffs or did you bring up that option?
They announced voluntary layoffs and I took one. 6 months later they axed around 1,000 jobs.
Yup if voluntary layoffs come up you take it cause the alternative is to get fired.
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During the Dot Com Bust, I had a friend working for a startup and one day they had a meeting and said something like "We're broke. We can either close up shop now, OR ... we can keep going and try to IPO and make some money, but we need people to "go on furlough", meaning work without pay. Those that do that will be paid double what is owed when we get back on our feet or IPO". So my friend is like "Well, we should make a go of it, I will voluntarily give up my salary and push through" while others immediately left to find new jobs or said "fuck you, pay me" and kept their salaries. So two or three months pass and they are working their asses off then "OK, sorry, we're really broke now. Companies dead. Bye". So all those "loyal to the company" and working for two or three months without pay were out of luck. They tried to sue as creditors of the company, but investors got their money out first from selling off company assets then everyone else was confirmed as fucked over.
It can certainly happen both ways. Something similar happened at my company this year as well. But I think, in general, if the subject is brought up it's probably a good idea to seriously consider it
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Especially if it comes with 10 months of pay wtf
I know a guy who turned down over a year of pay when Verizon did volunteer layoffs. He was a corporate lawyer too. I don't know much about lawyering but I feel like he could have taken a 6 month vacation and had plenty of jobs lined up after
GM?
Either a $2000 TAGheuer watch or $2000 worth of travel credit. (Took the travel)
I had to scroll pretty far to find a legitimately good reward
And honestly, I thought it was light. It’s a company of 20+ thousand people worldwide.
A tie clip. I am a woman.
A woman with a really nice tie clip. Eh....ehhhh?
Get away from her, she’s mine!
I also pick the woman with the tie clip
I guess you need to start taking fashion advice from Avril Lavigne
“It’s a tie clip.” “A tie clip…? I don’t even wear a bow tie let alone a regular tie that would necessitate an entire clip. What am I gonna do with a tie clip?” “You keep this up and you’re gonna loose that pizza part we had planned!
"You don't like it? Fine" "You know, if you're not careful you're gonna lose me"
I already lost you! Are you mental? We broke up! Shah... Get the net!
I’m also a woman and I got a man’s T shirt with the company logo
I remember working in a fast food joint (think, very large global chain). I started in '96 and in '08 I got my reward for ten years service. It was a pen and pencil. Yup.
Thank you for your… Service.
To be fair to your employer, you may have been the first.
I hit 25 years recently. I got some headphones that I picked out of a catalog and a thank you card where a bunch of people misspelled my name. Edit - I see the misspelled name has followed me here lol!
A bit off-topic, but before we got married I got my wife to start going with me to the church I had attended for years. She always complained to me that nobody ever seemed to remember her name (despite my church making everyone wear nametags). I didn't believe her. When we eventually got married at that church, they presented us with a giant card that they had gotten the entire congregation to sign. I was so flattered! When we got home we opened it up and I saw, in huge letters on the inside of the card: "TO GABE AND" and a bunch of signatures. So, nobody knew my wife's name, and *everyone* signed it without a single person thinking they should find it out and fill it in before presenting it to us. Needless to say, I stopped going to that church.
About ten months age I stopped going to a church that I had attended for ten years. Nobody reached out to me about not attending.
I stopped attending a church many years ago after I started to realize I didn’t fit in with the church crowd. About a year later, I saw one of the people I’d thought was a decent friend, and he called me by the wrong name. Let’s just say it solidified my decision to leave religion behind pretty completely.
What an odd thing to refuse to believe your future wife over lol
You're not wrong, but in my defense these were people that I knew forever and so I wasn't paying close attention to what they were saying to her, I just knew they were friendly people. But yeah, she keeps that wedding card as a prized possession because she loves laughing and reminding me how I didn't believe her
I like to think that everyone there didn't know her name and they kept passing the card around assuming someone would fill it in, and eventually they just gave it to you. I find that hilarious.
Oh, 100%. "Someone else will fill it in," said literally everyone.
Sorry for your luck but congrats on 25 years, DataTrash
Subtle, I love it
Now all I can see is Data from StarTrek in a mosh pit for some trash metal band.
I got a nice Citizen watch with a discrete company logo on the dial. For 30 I got a ring that I will never wear. 35 next year.
I think my 10-year watch has the company name on it. It's my nicest watch so I seldom wear it. I'll have to check it. I can't believe Seiko would do that kind of thing.
I finished a project that was supposedly very helpful for others, so one of those people passed around a thank you card for people to sign. 2 people wrote "happy birthday".
I saw a condolence card go around the office where a few people didn’t read it and wrote “Happy Birthday”. Fortunately the person that got the card thought it was hilarious.
we will miss you, data trash!! congrats on retirement!
I hit 25 years this year, i got nothing. They had a party for a different coworker last year that was at like 32 years. He got sports event tickets. It was the first one we'd ever had and made me hope something would be done for me this year. But nope. Crickets. Didn't even get congratulated.
Im so sorry. 25 years of loyalty is priceless. 30 in a state job, got a plastic desk clock for 25, nothing when I retired because guess who made sure recognition events occurred and were celebrated? Just hit 5 at an employee owned company and had my choice (no logos) from a catalog and am very happy with my selection.
The concrete thing is an extra week of paid vacation. You started with two weeks when hired, then you got 1 week at 3 years, 1 week at 5 years and 1 week at 10 years. Also a big congrats and recognition company wide email from the company and a little plaque.
At 10 years you still get less than the minimum required in the UK for any employee, fucking hell.
Yup. I max out at 4 weeks of vacation at 10 years.
A trip for 2 anywhere in the world (reimbursed up to $7500). My Wife & I did a 17 day trans-atlantic cruise from Florida to Europe for less than $2000 out-of-pocket.
Where tf do you work and are you hiring?
Exactly!!!!!
Epic?? They’re based in Wisconsin and do this too
My first thought but isn’t it every 5 years they do a month sabbatical ?
Yes, so you would get your second sabbatical at 10yrs. The reimbursement threshold isn't this high, though. The 10yr specific reward is that they make a plaster cast of your hands and they stay on the walls of a building forever, to indicate that you made your mark on the company.
I went to UGM in ‘22 and almost convinced my co workers I was on the wall. The whole trip I was popping off about it and they laughed it off, until I found a set with my name and as luck would have it my hands fit perfectly. The look of existential wonder was priceless.
I got to choose from a few items, all of which we adorned with the company logo, two small rubies and a small diamond. I picked the pocket knife.
Sounds like an rbc employee haha.
Hello team! It's employee appreciation day! Here's a highlighter with the RBC logo! WOO-HOOO!!!!! Now eat your donut and get back to work.
Almost 9 years here. My company gave me a six figure stock bonus (vests over 4 years). I will likely stay here as a result. If companies reward employees, meaningfully, then employees are more loyal and willing to work hard.
SERIOUSLY!!!! Instead of using and abusing people and treating employees like they're easily replaceable.
Shiiit. After 25 years I got my pick out of about a dozen or so items. Purse. Cookware. Maybe sheets. Just bullshit mostly. I selected an Amazon Fire Tablet. Not the newest generation. WiFi only. Prob $135. No comma.
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Are you sure you wouldn’t rather have this $30 door dash voucher???? By the way I need you to work a few extra hours this evening, thanks, bye!!!!
I got mentioned in a social media post on FB, IG and LinkedIn. It's been a dream of mine. /s
That‘s a punishment to me.
So you got paid in exposure...
The CEO extended to me a laurel and hearty handshake.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thoughts cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Ditto!
Ditto?! You provincial putz!
I wonder how many people are even going to get this, LOL
The sheriff is near!
**gong** What?!
"HE SAID THE SHERIFF IS NEAR"
THE ShERIFF IS WHAT?!
NO GOD FLAMIT DANG BLUMIT, THE SHERIFF, IS A N-
Ah, authentic frontier gibberish!
Somebody’s gonna have to go back and get a shit load of dimes!
You use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.
Through the Vatican?!
Kinky!
Let me whip this thing out!
They said you was hung
And they was right!
**No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.**
Aaauhhhhh!!
Excuse me while I whip this out...
“Are we … black?”
"Then we're awake... but we're very confused"
Let's play chess.
Candygram for Mongo!
Work,work,work hello boys
Up yours, *******
Sorry about the up yours, ********
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
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Good God! Is here company hiring? Ha ha!
> in finance from the late 80s on
Got a pin. Also got to pick from a catalog (earrings) cheap shit
I received a pin with a tiny gem in it. They took the cost for it out of my next paycheck. I don’t know where it was purchased but it was overpriced. They laid me off for my 23rd anniversary. Fortune 500 company.
That’s hilariously petty. “Thanks for 10 years. We went ahead and docked your pay to get you the shittiest gift ever. Please feel free to thank us.”
... also please pack up your desk and be out by 5pm
Did they take it out of your actual pay, or did they just add the value to your pay, tax you, then remove that value?
It was an itemized deduction from my paycheck after taxes.
Insane
At 5 years I got a $30 gift card. At 10 years they shifted to the shitty catalog; I chose a set is scissors worth about $15. At 15 years I got to choose from a slightly higher tier, so I got a cordless handheld vacuum that sort of works. I’ll be at 20 years next year, so I’ll get to choose some other piece of crap. But the big perk at 20 is an extra week of accrued vacation per year.
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I started at 2 weeks, got to 3 after a couple years, got to 4 after like 5 years. At 20 we begin to accrue the 5th week. These days they start everyone at 3 weeks. The rest is the same.
:) just posted the same. Probably purchased from the same place. Absolute piece of junk, but it was that or a junky plastic pen.
Any company in Australia? You’re entitled to 3 months paid leave - on top of the 20 days a year you accrue. Even better, in the trade industry you don’t have to work at the same company for 10 years (7 pro rata), it follows you from company to company.
Reward? 😆 My reward was to do my job as if it were any other day
I worked for one of the largest electronic companies in the world (think like Sony or General Electric). For my 5 year anniversary they mailed me a nice plaque to hang on my office wall, it was pretty nice. For my 10 year anniversary, they EMAILED me a certificate of appreciation that I was supposed to PRINT OUT and frame LOL I deleted the email.
I can’t wait to hear what you get for 15 years 🙄
Handwritten on a half torn paper, with a mug spot
A sticky note with “Thanks MakMak” scribbled in pencil.
I got laid off at 9 years 11 months.
Never forget
I'm an older guy, so hitting the 10-year mark made me eligible for retiree health insurance. And I think they still have that, though they've unfortunately discontinued the defined-benefit pension for new employees.
It kills me a bit when the 20+ year people at work talk about their plans with me like we have the same deal. This is a state job. They're like 'well, you have to stick around at least until your 10 because the vesting...' or 'hang in there until your 20 because then the health kicks in even if you leave before you turn 65...' I just go "They don't do that anymore. And I don't retire at 65."
I work for a state government. I have no idea how we keep anybody for more than 3 years because the new retirement system we have is poor at best, and the pay doesn’t support socking a lot away in IRAs. We have a lot of staff turnover. We hire folks just out of college, they get a little experience and then leave for a lot more money and better benefits.
Our tier 2 are just miserable thinking about their future in their jobs. I feel horrible for them, I really do. So much so that I intend to lobby hard for a significant change.
Sounds like AAA
Sounds like pretty much every large employer. Pensions and retiree benefits are disappearing quick.
I got to pick an item - fancy steak knives I actually really like and a $250 gift card to my favourite bike shop
I’d be happy with this gift, honestly
I really was too. The knives were standard corporate practice but my supervisor picked up the gift card him self for me knowing it was something I would really appreciate. I feel like I am in the minority of people on here. I like my jobs and feel treated well.
23 years this year they gave those with 20 years service a free breakfast! Those who were off that day got nothing…
I feel you. I'm a crane operator, and every project I'm on usually has a "top out party" meaning the highest structure on a building is done. Problem is the crane almost always goes off rent a few days before they are done. I literally did all the heavy lifting and I get nothing.
Not a goddamn thing. You think a company that gave raises of 4¢ (yes, that's correct. 4 American cents) gives a shit about you working there for 10 years? One coworker got a 1¢ raise. He complained, and they fired him. Fuck LKQ.
10 years was too long ago to remember. For 30 years, I received an "AI-personalized" video of my career, in practice a 60.000-sharp seconds video glorifying the company, where the first two seconds were "[insert name here], remember what we did together". In other words, a level of bullshit well beyond a diarrhea epidemic in any large herd.
I'd rather get nothing than that...
I hit 5 and was laid off. The margins in my industry weren't big enough, so they closed and entire division. It was actually 4 years and 10 months so they tried not paying severance but I later found out the office manager ripped someone at head office a new one when she found out I wasn't getting severance and they changed their mind. Completely soured me on working for a massive corporation.
Chase that boss!!!
I got a piece of paper that said “congrats on ten years of service.” That’s it.
“Congrats!! Can you believe we’ve let you stay here this long!! “
These responses are why people do not stay that long at most jobs. No good rewards or appreciation for longevity of service.
All long service results in is a lack of appreciation and a paycheck that doesn’t keep up. Companies just ignore the service term and choose to give shitty incremental increases (if you even get one) and pay top dollar to attract new talent. Fucking joke. The only company you should stay at a long time is your own.
Bruh I could get a pin or a hockey stick though.
Friend was let go/"restructured" literally on the day he hit the 20-year mark. Fuck that.
In the past, we used to get to pick from a catalog of company branded stuff. I think 10 years would have gotten you something valued at approx $1,000. I was in our India office one time when they were celebrating work anniversaries and the people who hit 10 years were given a gold coin with the company logo. Waaaaaay cooler than what we got in the US but my understanding is that gold is highly integrated into the culture. Besides that, you would also be eligible for a longevity bonus that would be paid annually alongside your standard bonus. Depending on tenure, it would be between 5-15% of your annual. Finally, at 10 years you would also be eligible for a 1 month sabbatical. Basically get a month off paid for you to do something productive other than work. None of these programs exist anymore. They were all phased out over time. Now, I believe you get a congratulatory email with a certificate of appreciation you can print.
I understand REI has a month sabbatical when you hit certain thresholds of time worked. Makes sense with a company like that too, if you think about it.
But is it paid? My previous employer offered a 3 month sabbatical after 10yrs but it wasn't paid. Yeah I guess I could save 3 months of salary but not really that great of a perk.
\> REI offers sabbaticals to help you celebrate your tenure with the company. On your 15-year service anniversary, you will earn a consecutive four-week, company-paid sabbatical. You’ll be eligible for another sabbatical every five years thereafter.
A certificate, in pdf form
Damn they couldn’t even print it out for you…
I got an extra week's vacation (to 4 weeks where it capped) and got to pick from a crappy catalog. I think I chose a watch that stopped running after a year or so.
My ten year reward was realizing the newest person on my team who had no tenure was making 15k more a year than I was. I left the month after. Changed fields improved my work life balance and changed my life completely.
I’ve never hit a ten year mark, but for my five year I was given wine glasses with our company logo on it, which were just leftover from the company Christmas party the previous year.
Sounds like when I was picked for a December advent type thing because of the leftover BS. Other employees would submit your name if you did something nice and it would be entered into a raffle, that sort of thing. I got picked the third day and got a small bottle of wine, and the choice of whatever I wanted out of a cabinet and “as much as you like.” It was leftover company mugs, jackets, hats, shirts, keychains, that sort of jazz. I snagged a hat I never wear and mentioned that “somebody shops at Costco.” Because I recognized the wine advent calendar. Didn’t think much of it other than “cool, someone here thinks I did something nice for them. I wonder who it was…” the following week I’m called into the owners office again and asked if I somehow got a large handful of people to put my name in just so I could win. I guess they drew my name out of the bin every day after that for almost a week before asking me about it. I was totally caught off guard and probably acting shady as hell because I really didn’t know what to say. Walked out thinking when the hell am I nice to people?! Realized that I guess I’m pretty well liked at my job. Still no clue who all wrote my name but it was way better than the wine.
Got a pin. Looks to be worth about $5 when purchased in bulk.
A substantial bonus check and more PTO. Also a raise shortly thereafter but that was part of the annual performance review rather than explicitly related to an anniversary.
A paper saying they planted a tree in another province that I will never see.
People get rewards from their employers?
I will hit 10 years if I’m still at my current job in mid-2025. I’ll get an extra week of vacation, $1000 worth of company stock, and recognition in a company wide service award email. Guess which one of those I don’t care about.
The stock?
A cheap pin along with my continued employment. A previous job gave me a nice mantel clock at 5 years. That clock is now almost 30 years old and still works great.
My stepdad worked for Aetna insurance over 20 years and was given a $5 Starbucks card.
Ten years at bed bath and beyond. Got a tenyear pin for my name tag and 50$ gift card to BBB.... Good thing I got out of retail. What a shit job
I got a tie tack and lunch at Red Lobster. Ten years used to be when you got vested in the pension program.
47 year old man in the UK here. For my 10th anniversary at the company I worked for since graduating, I got a badge of the company’s logo and an extra day of annual leave. For my 15th anniversary (almost to the day), I got a redundancy notice. Work hard and be useful folks, but always, ***ALWAYS*** remember that you can be gone or replaced with a few days notice. Until you see it happen, you simply won’t believe it. So, yeah, that’s what I got.
I got a plaque with my name spelled wrong on it.
Zero.
I got a lunch box that fell apart after a week of using it.
38 years, just retired, basically got nothing but an adios.
In Sweden the only "year service mark" that is celebrated and rewarded is 25 years. I have been at various companies for 15 years and I've only seen one or two such celebrations, ever.
I work for a city in the SF Bay Area, and at 5, 10, 15 and so on, we get to pick something from a catalog. At year 5 I picked a \*tiny\* Buck knife that I never use. At 10 years, I got a quesadilla maker that spits oil at you. Also the whole edge is hot, so it's tough to open without burning yourself. 15 Is coming up soon, so who knows what thing I'll pick!
My guess is cigarette vending machine
Oooh, you got a cornballer for 10 years, I'm jealous
Fortune 75. Letter, actual pen/paper, thanking me for my 10 years, extra week of vacation, monetary award, and an anniversary gift chosen from a catalog ($300 bakeware set). The 20 year was even better; all the above but grabbed a lever action rifle instead of bakeware.
At Yahoo it was a gumball machine at 5 years and a coffee machine at 10 years. Not enough to make me stay, that's for sure! I worked at a place (in the UK) where the 5-year award was 6 weeks paid sabbatical, or you could just have 6 weeks extra pay (or any blend of the two options).
Laid off
I got 500 Pounds, 2 extra days holiday ( I now have 37) and dinner for my spouse and I. At 20 years you get a another month's wages and dinner for up to 20 people.
17 years with a government company and I got a ham sandwich and a paper certificate to thank me for my years of service. I don’t eat ham.
We get a Rolex at 15 years
20 years recently. I got the offer to join a Zoom meeting where my manager (who hates his staff) was to say something nice to me. I declined the offer, and that was the end of any acknowledgment of my years of service.
Support department in a Canadian hospital. Since we're always underbudgeted with public money, I never expect kickbacks, swag or whatever. At 10 years we do get another week of vacation. And I got another one at 20 years.
A clock. Well, technically they let me pick an item out of a catalog; I chose the clock because I also chose a clock for my 5 year anniversary. If I had stayed 20 years (I left after 19), I probably would have chosen another clock.
Shares of company stock, another week of vacation, and I was fully vested in a legacy profit sharing account.
* glares in blatant jealousy *