Useless awards / gifts from work

[Lord Tyrion]

My sister has just sent a picture through of something she has been awarded from her work. It's a certificate to say thank you for 25 years of working there . That's it, nothing more. It looks like the sort of thing you used to get for swimming 10m / 25m at school.

To make it worse, she has actually been there for 32 years .

Any other examples.........

 

[Marshy77]

My sister has just sent a picture through of something she has been awarded from her work. It's a certificate to say thank you for 25 years of working there . That's it, nothing more. It looks like the sort of thing you used to get for swimming 10m / 25m at school.

To make it worse, she has actually been there for 32 years .

Any other examples.........

That's exactly what I'll be getting next year. Nothing more.

I walk past a colleagues desk who proudly has her certificate pinned on her desk!!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

That's exactly what I'll be getting next year. Nothing more.

I walk past a colleagues desk who proudly has her certificate pinned on her desk!!

Is it up there ironically or is she genuinely proud of it?

 

[PJ87]

When we do 25 years on the company we get 1 extra leave day a year and £400 in vouchers. Only 3 years to go for my 1 extra golf day per year

 

[Bunkermagnet]

When my wife worked for Halifax, one possible 25 yr service reward was a full set of golf clubs. They made her redundant at 24.5 yrs, along with everyone else in the service centre she worked at. so all she got was redundancy

 

[Marshy77]

Is it up there ironically or is she genuinely proud of it?

The latter

 

[Fade and Die]

My wife did 28 years with a single company, on the 25th year they gave her a bottle of wine

 

[Pin-seeker]

When my wife worked for Halifax, one possible 25 yr service reward was a full set of golf clubs. They made her redundant at 24.5 yrs, along with everyone else in the service centre she worked at. so all she got was redundancy

Donnays?

 

[Pin-seeker]

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Donnays?

No, Pings

 

[BrianM]

I've been pretty lucky, 5 years was a £500 Voucher, 10 years - £1000, 15 years - £1500, 20 years - A Rolex.
Sadly got paid off due to Covid after 13 years.

 

[GreiginFife]

My boss gave me a £5k bonus for 10 years.

 

[Billysboots]

29 years a cop.

I think at 20 years I got a long service medal/ribbon. There was an award ceremony, the expectation being that I wrote a few words about myself for a senior officer to read out in front family, other time served officers and dignitaries.

I asked the woman tasked with arranging the ceremonies why, after 20 years, the organisation couldn’t find someone to write a few words about me, rather than me having to blow smoke up my own backside. She couldn’t answer. I didn’t go. It felt utterly false. My ribbon arrived in a brown envelope without so much as a thank you.

It was similar when I retired. In years past retiring officers with over 25 years service were invited to meet the Chief Constable along with partner/spouse, for tea, biscuits the award of a certificate and a thank you for your service. I was told the Chief would make time for a phone call if I wanted to speak to him. Again, thanks, but no thanks.

So not a lot in my case. Apart, of course, from the pension. People ask me if I miss the police, as so many do. They become institutionalised and simply cannot let go.

Since the day I walked out the door I have not missed a single thing about it.

 

[PJ87]

29 years a cop.

I think at 20 years I got a long service medal/ribbon. There was an award ceremony, the expectation being that I wrote a few words about myself for a senior officer to read out in front family, other time served officers and dignitaries.

I asked the woman tasked with arranging the ceremonies why, after 20 years, the organisation couldn’t find someone to write a few words about me, rather than me having to blow smoke up my own backside. She couldn’t answer. I didn’t go. It felt utterly false. My ribbon arrived in a brown envelope without so much as a thank you.

It was similar when I retired. In years past retiring officers with over 25 years service were invited to meet the Chief Constable along with partner/spouse, for tea, biscuits the award of a certificate and a thank you for your service. I was told the Chief would make time for a phone call if I wanted to speak to him. Again, thanks, but no thanks.

So not a lot in my case. Apart, of course, from the pension. People ask me if I miss the police, as so many do. They become institutionalised and simply cannot let go.

Since the day I walked out the door I have not missed a single thing about it.

I think I'm one of the rare people who actually enjoys their job, I really have a passion for it and genuinely if I won the lottery tomorrow I'd still go in. Others I work with don't have the passion for it and it's just a job / wage but I genuinely love going to work and will be sad when I leave.

 

[Billysboots]

I think I'm one of the rare people who actually enjoys their job, I really have a passion for it and genuinely if I won the lottery tomorrow I'd still go in. Others I work with don't have the passion for it and it's just a job / wage but I genuinely love going to work and will be sad when I leave.

I didn’t dislike the job. Wouldn’t have stuck it for that long if I’d disliked it.

But I realised very early on that cops genuinely are only a number to the organisation they work for. Anyone who thinks otherwise is very naive. You move on, you are replaced by another number.

I saw enough poor treatment of colleagues to know that, if the smelly stuff hit the fan, the job would look after itself. Sure, I’d look after those I supervised and my colleagues. But the job itself never paid me the same courtesy. Quite the opposite.

 

[nickjdavis]

I remember some 30 odd years ago I worked for a Global brand....fingers in everything from Telecommunications to Armaments, Power Stations to Trains.

We had a contractor had his service terminated....he was called in to our managers office and given a cheap plastic torch by way of thanks for a couple of years work....not a long time but he had been a pivotal player in getting the project we were working on started. Th torch was so utterly low quality and tacky it was like something you might get at a fairground as a consolation for failing to win a goldfish....it wasnt even made by the company we worked for!!!

Ever after that, whenever we saw someone being summonsed into the managers office we referred to it as "going to get your torch".

 

[CliveW]

Self employed for forty years. All I got was an ulcer, high blood pressure and a hernia.

 

[IanM]

One place i worked used to hand out little postcards saying thanks, if you had done something above and beyond. Absolutely pointless

 

[SteveW86]

Probably nothing, I resigned last week. New job starts early May.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

When I was with GE you got 10, 15, 20 and 25 year awards escalating in value and there was some very good stuff on offer. 17 years in the NHS and I think I got a flimsy badge for 10 years and a standard letter template thanking me for my service for 15 years