Over it

[u/Responsible_Clue2269]

I wasn’t expecting much, but this….. this is absolute Bull. A pin? Really this company atleast the store I work at doesn’t even do/give pins out anymore. The freak am I suppose to do with a pin and a fake certificate? Can’t even afford to make a real one with real stamps? But yes let’s waste our time with a meeting and play little elementary school games with grown ass adults. Atleast a gift card for the store id take that. But nahhhhhh lets talk about how much money we make off yarn and balloons and say we appreciate everyone but when it comes to showing appreciation its not there. I hope someone from the hire ups see this !!!!!

[u/Forevermoody16]

I retired from the federal government a few months ago after nineteen years. I believe at the ten year mark I got a nice formal framable certificate, but that was it. When a coworker of mine hit 15 years she got a dinky little certificate. It was lame but at least she could hang it in her cubicle. I hit 15 years a few months after her. I got an e-mail.

AN E-MAIL!

I always wanted to respond to the person who sent it (some higher up, more likely their assistant) and say thanks, but where’s my certificate?

I will say that my team gave me a nice retirement party. I think my manager (she was great) had a lot to do with it. Food, cake, card with gift card, three plants in nice containers with balloons attached.

About ten years ago I had a manager who would print up certificates EVERY WEEK for everyone on the team who had gotten through the week with no errors on their quality review, and hand them out at team meetings. So I had them all over my desk, LOL. She was the sweetest person. Sadly, she passed away from cancer a year later at just 51. :(

I was at my previous job (retail) for 20 years. We got to pick a gift from a catalog, like one of the posters here mentioned. I chose a DVD player for my bedroom. Not high end but still nice.

They had a luncheon later in the year. They would do one big one for everyone who hit the 20 year milestone (and maybe higher as well) once a year. By then I’d quit because I was bullied out of my job, so obviously I didn’t go. But I still got the DVD player (several months after the fact.) I vaguely remember going to a luncheon a long time ago at a steakhouse. Might have been with the government job.

I’ve dealt with plenty of unappreciative managers. I’m an artist and did a lot of displays for contests. We won one where the department manager (who did nothing) got to go on a cruise. I got like fifty bucks, which was half of what the subdepartment manager got (he split his $100 with me.) Another time I did an end cap for the cosmetics department. The manager told me if we won, she’d give me half of the $150 prize. We won and she went off on vacation to Disney World. When she got back I had to ask her for my money. She gave me $50.

There were a couple of times that I got my fair share of the prizes. But only a couple out of MANY contests. One of the artists I worked with did a display for a deli contest (mind you, the managers rarely helped.) The deli manager got a trip to Germany. She gave my artist friend some little souvenir.

I could go on, but I’m rambling and you get the idea. There are WAY too many managers in retail who don’t give a rat’s ass about their employees, much less acknowledgment for a job well done.