30 Things People Got After Working For A Company For Ten Years, From Grand To Plain Sad
Working for the same company for ten years must require patience and dedication, both of which, hopefully, should be acknowledged. And in some companies, they are; some employers make sure to let their long-term employees know that they are valued and appreciated, especially after hitting a mark as significant as a decade.
However, not all of them have the same understanding of what the token of appreciation should be; that’s why in some companies, an employee might get a pen, while in others, a cruise trip. These are just a couple of examples of what members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community have received after spending a decade at their workplaces. Shared in a thread started by u/miami72fins, their answers covered all sorts of gifts from great to terrible, all of which you can find on the list below.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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 tie clip. I am a woman.
I've received lapel pins for each "benchmark" anniversary for every company I've worked for. The only difference is the color of the fake "gem" signifying the anniversary year.
Not a goddamn thing.
You think a company that gave raises of 4¢ (yes, that's correct. 4 American cents) gives a s**t about you working there for 10 years?
One coworker got a 1¢ raise. He complained, and they fired him.
F**k LKQ.
I feel that. :( My factory 'generously' gave us all a .35 cent raise to help with inflation during covid lockdown. I tell ya, all the extra groceries we all were able to get with that .35 cent raise was beyond description. We all had Waigu beef every night at our homes, even were able to take 3 month long vacations on it. I mean we already make between $13.55 and $15.81 an hour so yeah. That 35 cents absolutely sent us all into the next tax bracket. One guy even bought a Lamborghini - but sadly it had to be last years model. He was 70 cents shy of being able to afford the current years model. :( But he DID have it painted a lovely deep blurple, so that was cool. I went out and tossed all my clothing I've had since the mid 90s and filled an entire walk in closet with extreme high end womans designer clothing and shoes. Our owners generosity with the inflation wage totally changed our lives 1000000000 fold! We all have yachts now. It's nice.
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.
The generosity and appreciation they showed for your commitment, the hours you worked, the constant bs that most customers bring, putting up with the grease, spills, rushes that don't seem to end, and having your hair, clothing and home smell like Greasy Food, is just overwhelming /s. I'm fairly sure that pencil is the kind that doesn't sharpen correctly so it gets cracked and part of it falls off in a sharp angle, and the lead just snaps off with a single letter written. "Only the very best for our hard working, loyal and long time wage slaves! <3" Ugh, I would have walked eons ago. Get the training as a shift manager or even assistant then leave and climb higher at a different and better paying job with less stress and no greasy skin and the wonderful 'essence of work-grease' taking over your home. Down with uniforms and name tags and visors! (I know op left 16 years ago, but maybe others in that situation currently will see my words and flee. FLEE, YOU SAINTLY WORKERS! <3
I got to pick an item - fancy steak knives I actually really like and a $250 gift card to my favourite bike shop
See, that's a nice gift! Hopefully they last a lifetime, retain their blades and help you be the best chef possible :)
Either a $2000 TAGheuer watch or $2000 worth of travel credit. (Took the travel)
Right on! That's THE best choice because not many CAN travel, and to be able to do so really opens ones eyes and mind and outlook to more things in life - and in ones self - that they'd never do if they were 'land locked' to their motherland.
A paper saying they planted a tree in another province that I will never see.
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 b******t well beyond a diarrhea epidemic in any large herd.
Love the BS remark. Just sounds like the company doesn’t know the difference of cleaver or clever, I usually say. I live on a ranch so I know the difference between horse puckie and bull puckie. (I once left a meeting singing … It’s beginning to smell a lot like horse ****, everywhere I turn. … and handed in my two weeks vacation leave followed by two weeks notice)
I got $1000x yrs of service every year at my last job I lasted a little over 15 yrs.
I bounce around too much for my jobs so I asked my mom who was in finance from the late 80s on.
Her 10 year anniversary was a cell phone and a week-long trip to Italy. She also got a stipend in the form of traveler’s checks.
Her 20th was done as a group of other 20 years where they were flown out to dinner at the CEOs house and then a vacation.
Her 30th was a selection of vacations but she opted for the cash bonus.
Today, I’m pretty sure most anniversaries would be forgotten and it would be a normal day for a lot of workers. They don’t really do “big” stuff anymore.
According to many on here, they get penny raises, or a ceo handshake. Lifelong stupid Starbucks coffee. Small petite gift cards.... probably to a place they'd never shop at.... and a tie holder thingie for the female worker. /swoons in jealousy/
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.
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.
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.
Rifle sounds cool. Was it a good brand, I hope? No sarcasm and snark here. I hate guns but I sure can appreciate a good rifle as a 'thank you' gift, esp if the worker is into hunting or target shooting.
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.
23 years this year they gave those with 20 years service a free breakfast! Those who were off that day got nothing…
Very large Fortune 100 company - I got to make a selection from a rewards catalog site and got $$ for a celebration dinner. I chose a tent and two sleeping bags. At 15 years, I chose a mountain bike. Never got my celebration money. Just hit my 20 year. I chose a large $400 LeCreuset Dutch oven this time and I have $200 to spend on a celebration dinner with my team or with my family and friends. I’m taking just my friends out for a nice dinner this Friday at our local Japanese steakhouse and slapping the corporate card down.
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.
That, imo, is the WORST thing all employers ever did to the collective workers (at least in the USA). Getting rid of pensions and filling the void with stupid 401k's. I mean those are /nice/ but at least with a pension it's not going to risk being eaten by stock crashes and stuff.
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 least that's progress but starting with only 2 weeks is downright criminal!
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.
But only in B&W. No colour/ color printer access for you until 50 year service.
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.
29 years with a State of Alaska institution. 5 yrs - lapel pin. 10 yrs - blue mug. 15 yrs - I chose a framed art of dried wildflowers (still beautiful! locally made!). 25 yrs - chunky blue glass swirl with my name & 25 yrs ago on a metal plate. 28 years in, my department gave each employee and student a lapel pin; hadn't received a logo pen or a certificate previously. The institution, the department-- those did not appreciate employees. But my supervisor -- she did. I worked with and for her, not them. I appreciated her tremendously, also.
A gold ring. At 15 years, they put a diamond in it, and at 20 years get a gold watch.
At ten years full time, got a third week of vacation. At twenty I'll get a fourth week.
My stepdad worked for Aetna insurance over 20 years and was given a $5 Starbucks card.
Don't get me started on Aetna. I don't work for them-just have the insurance through my job, and they are the worst. It is actually cheaper for me to pay for my family out of pocket for health visits than to use them. I've gotten so many claims denied and in medical debt (in the thousands) for legit personal health problems. They nickel and dime their clients, and apparently their employees. Humana or even BCBS was way better when I was with them years ago...
We had to pay double just for my ambulance ride because they don't cover for emergency services! Bastards.
Load More Replies...Nope. I got one for two years. There is not a Starbuck within 40-50 miles of where I live. Tried to use it while visiting my brother, couldnt see anything on menu under $5.
Load More Replies...I stopped an $800 theft at the store I worked at once - purely accidentally, person was trying to go out the in-door with a cart full and I was walking in at the same time, he saw me and fled (we were definitely trained to just not intercept these things so the company wouldn't have to pay out for us when we get hurt). Got a $5 card for said store. Lmfao get fcked.
They probably wanted you to quit so they could replace you with a lower-paid new hire.
In Australia we all get 4 weeks ( full time staff, that is, not casuals) and if you work for the government you get 5, from the get go.
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 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.
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I hit my 10 year anniversary in August. From the company, I got a cash bonus of $10K before taxes, an employer contribution of $25K into my 401K, another 40 hours of PTO each year (I am up to 35 days per year), and I was called down to the Yard of Bricks at the beginning of a race by our CEO, given an engraved Tag Heuer watch (the official timekeeper of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway), and I got to wave the green flag to start the race. From my direct boss I got a fancy dinner for my partner and I and tickets to an art exhibit that I really wanted to go to.
It's amazing how dumb some companies are. Not only is some sort of (non patronising) gift a fair reward for good work and loyalty, it also ensures continued loyalty, increases morale and thereby productivity and if done right, the effect will also spill over to other employees. It isn't even about what the gift is, it's about making someone who spends a huge amount of their life working for you feel they're appreciated for doing so.
My retirement from my last job coincided with my 25th anniversary of working at the school. Each year there was a ceremony where they awarded token acknowledgements for certain years of service - 10,15, 20, etc. When the central office wrote me to invite me to the ceremony, I replied that I couldn't come that day and asked that they mail me whatever they were giving me. It's been nine years, and it still hasn't arrived. I have a little space on a shelf that stands empty waiting for it. I look at that space whenever I ask myself if I miss working there.
I also did 25 years at a school/university. I got a folding camp chair for 25 years of service and can never escape the emails and snail mails inviting me to join the alumni association for a sizeable annual charge.
Load More Replies...I worked as a Temp for a couple of months at a truck manufacturing company prior to Christmas. The day they closed the factory for the break EVERY employee was handed a frozen turkey and a watch. I was gobsmacked. Funny to carry it home on the bus but was a lovely touch.
I worked at a frozen turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas place! It is a nice touch.
Load More Replies...My 50th birthday and my 10 year anniversary was on the same day. It was normal to bring treats for the office and put up a sign. Mine said "Happy 10 yr Anniversary and 50 yr Birthday to [me]". I got called into HR for lying about my age. My supervisor was there, too...he accused me of lying about my age for whatever reason. *Seriously?!?* I made HR pull up my w-2s to prove my age. So, my 10 yr anniversary gift was not getting fired for lying. EDIT TO ADD: My supervisor was personal friends with HR head, so nothing ever happened to him for this & other c**p he pulled.
For my 5 year bonus I received a whopping £100 payment card, approx 1% of my annual salary. To add insult to injury you have to provide the card issuer loads of details about yourself to activate the card, the card doesn't activate and then you have to phone them, they don't answer, after 3 months of non use they charge you £3 per month as a "service charge". So essentially I got nothing, it's not worth the time and effort it'll take to try and retrieve the remaining funds.
Sears. For being there 15 years I got a pin (about the size of a penny) that said "15 years", and I was told I had to wear it next to my name badge. I didn't. So...I got written up....for not wearing my anniversary "reward". That company deserved to die.
I work for a famous tech company notorious for our products coming out late and our CEO’s affinity for memes. I got nothing for my 10 year anniversary, at first. Around that time a good friend sent me a picture of his Apple 10th anniversary award actually signed by Steve Jobs. I got mad and the next year, since one of our products references the movie “Spinal Tap” I printed out a meme from the movie that said “This one goes to 11” the next year they had a ceremony for everyone 10 years plus but I was busy and didn’t go, so I missed out on the tchotchke. Almost a full two years later to the day I got an email that my 10 year package ended up in the wrong place, and asked me where they should send it. I told them my location, but a week later someone emails me from another location saying they had received it by mistake, and asked me where to send it again. I finally got this really cool gold plated coin for 10 years of service and a tee shirt. On my 12th work anniversary.
In my last company when I hit the 5 years mark there, they gave an USB with my name on it. Not very useful for 2020 but thank you.
I hit 10 years at IBM. They gave me a catalog to chose things from. I picked a GPS (pre-everyone has a smartphone with GPS in their pocket), which was nice, and I used it when I traveled, but I left it in a rental car and never got it back.
we never really had any official stuff, (don't really expect it in retail) but when my friend and I were the only staff on the ten year anniversary that had been there since opening day of our branch, my husband was really cheeky and messaged the C.E.O. asking if we could have a treat. and he agreed to us having a spa treatment each. which was rather lovely.
I'm a teacher. Never heard of any district honoring their teachers.
Nothing. I did 10 years two weeks ago. Nothing expected, nothing received, no problem. Im happy wirh my job
Not an anniversary gift, but last year my bosses gave me a gift certificate to a super high-end resort. It was our busiest year ever and I was dealing with an incompetent assistant, while still trying to maintain the quality of my work. So they gave me a gift certificate to this incredible place. Rooms start at $1,500 a night and include food by a James Beard Award-winning chef. The total cost was about $6,500 for a long weekend. It was pretty amazing. We were treated like royalty. This place is so exclusive and on another level that I would never be able to go there otherwise. It was very generous of them.
I'm not sure what I'll get if I even stay the next 2 years to get rewarded because the quality of management sucks. But I can say the people that respect me enough to know the quality of my job have rewarded me enough in the past few years and I like that respect.
25 years and I got a cheap folding camp chair. It didn't even come with a storage bag to cover it and keep it closed. When I worked in Ohio, a colleague retired and had a choice of a wristwatch or a shotgun at 20 years (this was the early 90s and well....Ohio).
’ve got 25 years next year and that will mean six weeks of vacation. Otherwise, I’ll get a pin with five small diamonds in it, I don’t really care - we get generous bonuses and profit sharing and I’d rather have that than things.
For every five years of service, the agency my husband works for gives out a little catalog that employees get to choose from. The first time he got it, there was a nifty multitool available that was a hatchet with a nice nylon sheath and lots of other little pullout tools. When it came in, it was delivered to his desk, but his boss came in and said he couldn't have it at work and threw a fit that it was in the workplace at all. After that, the hatchet was removed from the catalog and gifts chosen from the catalogs were mailed to the recipient instead of delivered to the workplace. For his ten year, he picked a simple backpack because he didn't like anything in the catalog, but at least a backpack is useful. He did also get a plaque for ten years of service. I wonder how many people managed to get the hatchet before it was removed. It was the best thing in the catalog.
my 20th anniversary at my company (a very small company with only 4 employees at the time) was in 2021. We all forgot about it because one of my co-workers (she also was with the company for 20+years) and good friend got diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and lost her fight in 2021.
My favorite company did a 2-day „vacation“ every year for every employee, their spouses and their kids. This always entailed the drive to the destination, a feast, entertainment and hotel rooms with breakfast.
I've never been at a job for 10 years, currently at 6. I can predict from past employees that I'll get absolutely nothing at the 10 year mark.
This is why I bounce around im 32 I probably won't settle into a permanent job until I'm 45 ish to clarify I've had a job soi just don't get any loyalty from it
Worked for a major hospital in my area started in my late 40s you could be vested in the pension plan after five years and collect starting at 60 After 10 years I transferred to another place of employment thinking I would collect the pension eventually from my prior employer I applied and they let me know that I was 3 1/2 hours short one year and 4 1/2 hours short another year hence not eligible Working for them was a bear of a job. We went four years one time with no cost of living raise . management. Did have catered meetings every three or four months to discuss how they handle their budget. They got thousands of dollars each as bonuses at Christmas every 10 years they cleaned the house which meant older and higher paid were laid off and asked to train new graduates into the system.
I worked in the music industry - for my 10 years in, I got “down sized” and a gas station mug. (For the sake of saying it, that business is not all it’s cracked up to be)
26 years at same place..my reward is a steady income.. nothing else is needed.
Currently working for a company that makes billion dollar video games. Management gets 5 figure bonuses if the game does well, testers get nothing. If you work for them for 5 years you get a $50 Amazon gift certificate. They start everyone at one dollar above minimum wage and use multiple layers of staffing companies to choke out unionization. But we get up to three coffees or sugar free non-brand name sodas a day, what fun!
In my case, during the time I have worked, a fixed monthly amount is added to my salary every two years until my retirement, which is added to my salary. That is to say. I would not receive an amount of money at the end of my working career for all the years worked. I receive it automatically during my professional career, regardless of promotions, etc.... Those who have been retiring I have seen receive messages from the CEO, Division Manager and director and a gift from colleagues depending on the employee's hobbies.
We get a paper certificate. A round of clapping in a forced work stop safety meeting one a week. And if you haven't been hurt a shirt commemorating that with a year number on it. One guy has like almost 30 shirts. I'll hit number two in a week but won't get shirt til summer.
I’m a healthcare worker in the public setting. We get a pin and a piece of paper on special anniversary dates. They forgot my 10 year anniversary altogether (although, apparently so did I). But the kicker: when I had been there 14 years and 9 months they changed the rules about part time work and I was forced to resign (young kids, special needs, childcare, couldn’t do full time) but was “lucky” enough to get some casual Covid related work within the same organisation (left my position the very week Covid hit). They emailed me to confirm I had been working for 15 uninterrupted years, so that they could give me my award but specified that I would not be eligible if I was working casually. Well, I’m afraid I used that poor faceless email recipient to vent a few things. I was horrified when they actually emailed me back - fortunately they were quite sympathetic and apologetic about the situation.
Wow! I'm left speechless by some of these companies. I have a small business with 5 employees. They each get a gift voucher on their birthdays. It's enough to buy something they want, but most certainly better than a hand shake, a certificate, a cup of coffee and ham sandwich.
Since the 90ties in our company it is a custom to give on $500 on 5th aniversary and $1000 on the 10th, etc. The amount has not changed since the 90ties and I imaginge by 2050 it still is.
Despite the amounts not changing in the last 30 years, I'd still be happy to receive those amounts.
Load More Replies...Hmm, I got to continue to work there whilst the CEO raped me anally.
After teaching 15 years at a college, I received a 2"X3" plaque with my name and years of service. I also received lunch with all of the other 15-years' employees. Whoop. Whoop. Upon retirement, one receives a framed picture of the state house. Man, I shouldn't have left! Haha!
I’ve been self employed my entire working life so don’t get any long service benefits but I think most of these in this article are American, because in Europe I don’t think long service gifts are really a thing instead employees get pay rises and extra paid holiday days which I’d imagine works out a lot more beneficial over a longer period of time than this american equivalent of gifting items/experiences
Last I checked... you earned a paycheck all these 10 years... the company does not owe you anything other than that! I've never understood the entitlement people have when working for a company. The "tag line" says..."I survived" working for a company for 10 years.... Jeez... after a year or so If I didn't like the company, I certainly wouldn't stay JUST to survive.
When my dad worked 25 years at the same company he got a month extra salary without tax deduction and he also got his dream race bike which was worth around 1200 euros. His boss has since passed away but he was just wonderful, he also bought us a computer one time because my parents couldn't afford it (it was at the time they were still really expensive and new)
I hit my 10 year anniversary in August. From the company, I got a cash bonus of $10K before taxes, an employer contribution of $25K into my 401K, another 40 hours of PTO each year (I am up to 35 days per year), and I was called down to the Yard of Bricks at the beginning of a race by our CEO, given an engraved Tag Heuer watch (the official timekeeper of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway), and I got to wave the green flag to start the race. From my direct boss I got a fancy dinner for my partner and I and tickets to an art exhibit that I really wanted to go to.
It's amazing how dumb some companies are. Not only is some sort of (non patronising) gift a fair reward for good work and loyalty, it also ensures continued loyalty, increases morale and thereby productivity and if done right, the effect will also spill over to other employees. It isn't even about what the gift is, it's about making someone who spends a huge amount of their life working for you feel they're appreciated for doing so.
My retirement from my last job coincided with my 25th anniversary of working at the school. Each year there was a ceremony where they awarded token acknowledgements for certain years of service - 10,15, 20, etc. When the central office wrote me to invite me to the ceremony, I replied that I couldn't come that day and asked that they mail me whatever they were giving me. It's been nine years, and it still hasn't arrived. I have a little space on a shelf that stands empty waiting for it. I look at that space whenever I ask myself if I miss working there.
I also did 25 years at a school/university. I got a folding camp chair for 25 years of service and can never escape the emails and snail mails inviting me to join the alumni association for a sizeable annual charge.
Load More Replies...I worked as a Temp for a couple of months at a truck manufacturing company prior to Christmas. The day they closed the factory for the break EVERY employee was handed a frozen turkey and a watch. I was gobsmacked. Funny to carry it home on the bus but was a lovely touch.
I worked at a frozen turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas place! It is a nice touch.
Load More Replies...My 50th birthday and my 10 year anniversary was on the same day. It was normal to bring treats for the office and put up a sign. Mine said "Happy 10 yr Anniversary and 50 yr Birthday to [me]". I got called into HR for lying about my age. My supervisor was there, too...he accused me of lying about my age for whatever reason. *Seriously?!?* I made HR pull up my w-2s to prove my age. So, my 10 yr anniversary gift was not getting fired for lying. EDIT TO ADD: My supervisor was personal friends with HR head, so nothing ever happened to him for this & other c**p he pulled.
For my 5 year bonus I received a whopping £100 payment card, approx 1% of my annual salary. To add insult to injury you have to provide the card issuer loads of details about yourself to activate the card, the card doesn't activate and then you have to phone them, they don't answer, after 3 months of non use they charge you £3 per month as a "service charge". So essentially I got nothing, it's not worth the time and effort it'll take to try and retrieve the remaining funds.
Sears. For being there 15 years I got a pin (about the size of a penny) that said "15 years", and I was told I had to wear it next to my name badge. I didn't. So...I got written up....for not wearing my anniversary "reward". That company deserved to die.
I work for a famous tech company notorious for our products coming out late and our CEO’s affinity for memes. I got nothing for my 10 year anniversary, at first. Around that time a good friend sent me a picture of his Apple 10th anniversary award actually signed by Steve Jobs. I got mad and the next year, since one of our products references the movie “Spinal Tap” I printed out a meme from the movie that said “This one goes to 11” the next year they had a ceremony for everyone 10 years plus but I was busy and didn’t go, so I missed out on the tchotchke. Almost a full two years later to the day I got an email that my 10 year package ended up in the wrong place, and asked me where they should send it. I told them my location, but a week later someone emails me from another location saying they had received it by mistake, and asked me where to send it again. I finally got this really cool gold plated coin for 10 years of service and a tee shirt. On my 12th work anniversary.
In my last company when I hit the 5 years mark there, they gave an USB with my name on it. Not very useful for 2020 but thank you.
I hit 10 years at IBM. They gave me a catalog to chose things from. I picked a GPS (pre-everyone has a smartphone with GPS in their pocket), which was nice, and I used it when I traveled, but I left it in a rental car and never got it back.
we never really had any official stuff, (don't really expect it in retail) but when my friend and I were the only staff on the ten year anniversary that had been there since opening day of our branch, my husband was really cheeky and messaged the C.E.O. asking if we could have a treat. and he agreed to us having a spa treatment each. which was rather lovely.
I'm a teacher. Never heard of any district honoring their teachers.
Nothing. I did 10 years two weeks ago. Nothing expected, nothing received, no problem. Im happy wirh my job
Not an anniversary gift, but last year my bosses gave me a gift certificate to a super high-end resort. It was our busiest year ever and I was dealing with an incompetent assistant, while still trying to maintain the quality of my work. So they gave me a gift certificate to this incredible place. Rooms start at $1,500 a night and include food by a James Beard Award-winning chef. The total cost was about $6,500 for a long weekend. It was pretty amazing. We were treated like royalty. This place is so exclusive and on another level that I would never be able to go there otherwise. It was very generous of them.
I'm not sure what I'll get if I even stay the next 2 years to get rewarded because the quality of management sucks. But I can say the people that respect me enough to know the quality of my job have rewarded me enough in the past few years and I like that respect.
25 years and I got a cheap folding camp chair. It didn't even come with a storage bag to cover it and keep it closed. When I worked in Ohio, a colleague retired and had a choice of a wristwatch or a shotgun at 20 years (this was the early 90s and well....Ohio).
’ve got 25 years next year and that will mean six weeks of vacation. Otherwise, I’ll get a pin with five small diamonds in it, I don’t really care - we get generous bonuses and profit sharing and I’d rather have that than things.
For every five years of service, the agency my husband works for gives out a little catalog that employees get to choose from. The first time he got it, there was a nifty multitool available that was a hatchet with a nice nylon sheath and lots of other little pullout tools. When it came in, it was delivered to his desk, but his boss came in and said he couldn't have it at work and threw a fit that it was in the workplace at all. After that, the hatchet was removed from the catalog and gifts chosen from the catalogs were mailed to the recipient instead of delivered to the workplace. For his ten year, he picked a simple backpack because he didn't like anything in the catalog, but at least a backpack is useful. He did also get a plaque for ten years of service. I wonder how many people managed to get the hatchet before it was removed. It was the best thing in the catalog.
my 20th anniversary at my company (a very small company with only 4 employees at the time) was in 2021. We all forgot about it because one of my co-workers (she also was with the company for 20+years) and good friend got diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and lost her fight in 2021.
My favorite company did a 2-day „vacation“ every year for every employee, their spouses and their kids. This always entailed the drive to the destination, a feast, entertainment and hotel rooms with breakfast.
I've never been at a job for 10 years, currently at 6. I can predict from past employees that I'll get absolutely nothing at the 10 year mark.
This is why I bounce around im 32 I probably won't settle into a permanent job until I'm 45 ish to clarify I've had a job soi just don't get any loyalty from it
Worked for a major hospital in my area started in my late 40s you could be vested in the pension plan after five years and collect starting at 60 After 10 years I transferred to another place of employment thinking I would collect the pension eventually from my prior employer I applied and they let me know that I was 3 1/2 hours short one year and 4 1/2 hours short another year hence not eligible Working for them was a bear of a job. We went four years one time with no cost of living raise . management. Did have catered meetings every three or four months to discuss how they handle their budget. They got thousands of dollars each as bonuses at Christmas every 10 years they cleaned the house which meant older and higher paid were laid off and asked to train new graduates into the system.
I worked in the music industry - for my 10 years in, I got “down sized” and a gas station mug. (For the sake of saying it, that business is not all it’s cracked up to be)
26 years at same place..my reward is a steady income.. nothing else is needed.
Currently working for a company that makes billion dollar video games. Management gets 5 figure bonuses if the game does well, testers get nothing. If you work for them for 5 years you get a $50 Amazon gift certificate. They start everyone at one dollar above minimum wage and use multiple layers of staffing companies to choke out unionization. But we get up to three coffees or sugar free non-brand name sodas a day, what fun!
In my case, during the time I have worked, a fixed monthly amount is added to my salary every two years until my retirement, which is added to my salary. That is to say. I would not receive an amount of money at the end of my working career for all the years worked. I receive it automatically during my professional career, regardless of promotions, etc.... Those who have been retiring I have seen receive messages from the CEO, Division Manager and director and a gift from colleagues depending on the employee's hobbies.
We get a paper certificate. A round of clapping in a forced work stop safety meeting one a week. And if you haven't been hurt a shirt commemorating that with a year number on it. One guy has like almost 30 shirts. I'll hit number two in a week but won't get shirt til summer.
I’m a healthcare worker in the public setting. We get a pin and a piece of paper on special anniversary dates. They forgot my 10 year anniversary altogether (although, apparently so did I). But the kicker: when I had been there 14 years and 9 months they changed the rules about part time work and I was forced to resign (young kids, special needs, childcare, couldn’t do full time) but was “lucky” enough to get some casual Covid related work within the same organisation (left my position the very week Covid hit). They emailed me to confirm I had been working for 15 uninterrupted years, so that they could give me my award but specified that I would not be eligible if I was working casually. Well, I’m afraid I used that poor faceless email recipient to vent a few things. I was horrified when they actually emailed me back - fortunately they were quite sympathetic and apologetic about the situation.
Wow! I'm left speechless by some of these companies. I have a small business with 5 employees. They each get a gift voucher on their birthdays. It's enough to buy something they want, but most certainly better than a hand shake, a certificate, a cup of coffee and ham sandwich.
Since the 90ties in our company it is a custom to give on $500 on 5th aniversary and $1000 on the 10th, etc. The amount has not changed since the 90ties and I imaginge by 2050 it still is.
Despite the amounts not changing in the last 30 years, I'd still be happy to receive those amounts.
Load More Replies...Hmm, I got to continue to work there whilst the CEO raped me anally.
After teaching 15 years at a college, I received a 2"X3" plaque with my name and years of service. I also received lunch with all of the other 15-years' employees. Whoop. Whoop. Upon retirement, one receives a framed picture of the state house. Man, I shouldn't have left! Haha!
I’ve been self employed my entire working life so don’t get any long service benefits but I think most of these in this article are American, because in Europe I don’t think long service gifts are really a thing instead employees get pay rises and extra paid holiday days which I’d imagine works out a lot more beneficial over a longer period of time than this american equivalent of gifting items/experiences
Last I checked... you earned a paycheck all these 10 years... the company does not owe you anything other than that! I've never understood the entitlement people have when working for a company. The "tag line" says..."I survived" working for a company for 10 years.... Jeez... after a year or so If I didn't like the company, I certainly wouldn't stay JUST to survive.
When my dad worked 25 years at the same company he got a month extra salary without tax deduction and he also got his dream race bike which was worth around 1200 euros. His boss has since passed away but he was just wonderful, he also bought us a computer one time because my parents couldn't afford it (it was at the time they were still really expensive and new)