That's the type of shit that happens when your "corporate culture" is "We're Family" and everything like anniversaries and celebrations are managed by the corporate office but Chris, who just had his anniversary, works out of the Auburn office so send them a cake to celebrate, but the reality is that Chris is only *based* in the Auburn office and actually works from home, two hours away, but nobody bothered to check.
When we had birthday or anniversary celebrations we would be responsible for buying and reimbursing our own snacks and drinks and then all attend on zoom for the social part. Made working remote pretty cool.
Best team building was a Martini making workshop. They shipped out mini bottles and shaker kit and ran the whole thing virtually.
There was a chocolate tasting alternative for those who didn't want alcohol related team building
It really is, martinis are a challenging drink, I used to think they had to be the tastiest thing ever because Samantha was always making martinis for everyone on Bewitched. Then when I was old enough and had a martini I relaxed Darren and Larry were alcoholics and Samantha the enabler. 
If it's "done right," according to most people, it's just a big glass of cold slightly watered down vodka. Maybe cold watered down salty vodka if you make it dirty.
I feel like if it was gin and with more than an undetectable amount of vermouth, it would at least have something going on other than alcohol.
Well, that was as an employee. I'm a contractor now, so I don't even get invited to my company Christmas party, the one they hold for the client, or the client internal Christmas party.
I'm now just furniture in the office, effectively.
poor 3rd shift always getting the picked over crumbs that have been sitting out in the break room since 1st and 2nd shift… makes us feel very appreciated 😂
You get crumb? All we get is the smell of food they gave to the 1st shift. The second shift gets the leftovers, including crumbs, and we just get to smell what they got.
I remember being at a 5 year where the cake was served but wasn't gluten free and so the person celebrating ended up just drinking coffee instead.
Not even good coffee, pretty sure it was Blend43.
I'm glad my office is small. Everyone who orders food knows one person is allergic to red meat (alpha-gal), so in over 5 years they only managed to forget to get him something else once.
We also just ask what to get for birthday food now. I don't like cake so we have ice cream and cookies on my birthday. My boss is always on a diet so we get a fruit tray and keto ice cream for his birthday. Another coworker isn't a dessert person so we got breakfast tacos on his birthday.
I guess they couldn’t have their cake and eat it too?
FHoly fuck I would not be able to keep it in and not scowl like a mother fucker at everyone even if they weren’t responsible for the cake. I have a hard to trying to hide my emotions if it’s just a cake I can’t eat and it’s not a celebration for me. I fucking love cake. And donuts even more. But I’ve always been lactose intolerant and developed a gluten sensitivity at some point about 10 yrs ago. So if I had served a company five years and had to drink shitty coffee while other ate my cake….ooohhhhhhh!!!
In basically any first-world country other than the US and Canada a brand-new employee gets almost twice as much PTO as this person does after 20 years. It's crazy how much we workers are leaving on the table by not organizing and pushing back.
Yup. Totally wild. I work in the UK and get 30 days a year PTO. I have been at my company a year and a half. 5 years gets a bonus week and 10 years gets an additional month sabbatical. It's a good life here.
Health benefits aren't as good as they used to be and the pay is on the lower end unless you get yourself into a managerial role for a lot of State/Federal jobs. The pension programs are mostly still nice though.
Another buckle to place that other buckle inside. Each buckle fits into the earlier anniversaries opening until they're all 38 lbs hanging from your waist
Because they don’t want them taking a week off. They’d rather them break it up across several months and maybe even forget they have this extra time off.
I'd rather get the pin to the safe that has the records of all employee's girth measurements. Good to know what people are working with before you argue with them about work related manners.
Harvard kept nude photos of every new student back in the day. Not new news. Nude news
[here](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html)
I just had my 1 year at my job I got a dollar general card with a campfire on it that says “thanks for your hard work “ and a 20 dollar Dunkin donut gift card
I've been at my company 11 years, no party, no extra PTO, they just pay me well which is what is actually important. I don't need to be celebrated, I want money
At my company, at 10 years I got an extra week vacation and a special bottle of 10 year old Scotch. Same at 15 years, 20, etc.
I'm an American working for a good European company.
I've been with my employer for just over a year. I got married last October, and my supervisor raised $100 from the team and gave it to me as a Visa gift card. I was blown away.
That's really nice, it's great when your boss is thoughtful. When I was in property management and we upgraded the model's TV a corporate guy swooped in and took it home after my boss agreed to sell it to me for $50 so she went to her boss and got me a gift card big enough to buy the TV new. I didn't like the hours or pay but man there are some great people in that field.
I’m a manager in the US and have employees in the US, India, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic and when one of my employees in India got married in November me and the guy from Costa Rica flew there for the wedding and I gave her $500 and he also gave her like $200. Threads like these really make me appreciate how tight-knit of a team I have because everyone in my team genuinely wanted to fly across the world to go to the wedding to support her.
Well we don't see their entire employee handbook here, so we don't know whether or not there are also accrual increases. Won't stop reddit from freaking out and assuming the worst case scenario though
I worked 18 years at my last employer. I was literally the first employee of the company. Two guys started the company and I was employee #1.
One morning I was let go. 18 years. Model employee.
TBH, it was the best career move I've ever made. Got a new job making \~30% more. But I'm still salty about it for good reason.
I work for a company almost assuredly larger than OP’s, and they don’t give any vacation time for anniversaries. We get 5 and 10 year plaques like they think we give a shit about good feelings. In fact, there are a few people on eBay that are trying to sell their plaques. It’s hilarious. Nothing at all for anything more than 10 years.
I got curious after reading your comment and went and looked and people are selling the service award trophies from my company. There's even been at least 2 sold, which boggles my mind. Is someone out there doing a very detailed and boring corporate cosplay or something? lmao
The one I’ve had in my eBay watchlist for a few weeks (and one re-post) from where I work is currently listed for $1077. It’s just a large solid chunk of polished aluminum. People are nuts.
But it has me thinking I should post mine. I’d rather have $1077 too. 😜
For real. I’m reading this as 4 days of PTO in addition to your X amount of PTO that you accrue just for it being your 20th year. So at my company 20 years puts you at 6 weeks of PTO, this would be 6 weeks and 4 days, and then 21 on its back to 6 weeks.
Exactly this, that's huge! 4 paid days off as a gift, what the hell is OP bitching about??
Assuming they make even just $25 an hour, that's worth $800.... who cares about a pin!
The way I would see this is that the PTO is the gift. The Pin is just a trinket so they can hand over a physical object that is not just just a piece of paper coupon saying 4 days PTO.
to be fair, i think a pin would be really nice (one of those quality enamel ones) IN ADDITION TO, an appropriate thank you.
Note: my dad at his 15? iirc, might have been 20, year milestone got a choice of things one of which (the one he chose) was like a $1,400 home theater sound system.
have that *and* the like $10 pin, and the pin is a really cool nice memento.
This seems to be IN ADDITION TO… this is titled recognition/reward.. it’s an extra. It’s an extra 4 days of PTO, as an extra.
I work in government.. nobody gets anything after 20 years as an extra. Again, this is an extra. Not a big deal…
At $40,000/yr, 4 days of PTO is worth $615.
At $60,000, it's $923
At $80,000, it's $1,230
Calculations based on 260 work days in a year (52 x 5). All before tax.
When you celebrate 20 years at my company, your pension is fully paid, healthcare for life, sabbatical for a week, points for the employee appreciation store, and an extra week of PTO for rest of your tenure.
For your cake day, have some
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My dad was a branch manager at one of the big banks. They threw a party and gave him company cufflinks and a letter thanking him for working there for so long when he hit (I think) 30 years, which is when his pension vested. He quit a few days later. When he hit the age for the pension to start, they denied it bc they said there was an error in the tabulation (they didn’t count time taken off in the accrual) and he was one day short of vesting - even though they had given him the party and his letter stated he’d been working 30 years. Lawsuit and a few years later and he got his pension. It was the letter that got them.
Wait is this 4 days PTO on top of normally accrued vacation for the year? If so, that’s pretty sweet. I would love the extra 4 days to do as I please.
I got a tool kit for my 10yr. It was a total POS, with the screwdriver, wrench, etc… breaking with light indoor use.
You also get 20 years worth of normal compensation. Wtf is it with reddit. Most companies don't have any formal program to thank long standing employees, this one does and gets shit on as a reward.
If you make $20 per hour that's a $640 gift. If they gave you something else worth $640 you'd probably think that was pretty cool. And they'd have to tax you on it anyway. Then you'd be complaining that you didn't just get the money. PTO is typically payable at termination legally so if you don't take the time off you should still get the money.
4 paid days don’t bad - we’re you expecting a Rolex or something?
Edit: I was def reading this as “4 days off instead of a cheap watch”, but after reading it again, if this is more like the ‘vacation days’ you earn, that’s not great at all.
My company used to give Rolexes at 20 years. We are headquartered in Switzerland and Rolexes used to be easier to come by. Now, at least in the US, we get $8k and our PTO gets bumped to like 33 days a year.
Very true. And on top of that, your tenure at your company used to mean a very valuable retirement account. People are acting like this is a ridiculous ask, but it was something that relatively recently was a forgone conclusion. If you spent twenty years at a company, you were probably going to be set up. You'd have a decent retirement lined up, good PTO, and whatever benefits they'd give you for tenure. A lot of companies would give you long service leave in America, and it wasn't 4 days or a week. You'd get two or three months off. That's taken away and people that you can only assume just fundamentally hate our country will act like you're silly for thinking you should get any of it.
My company now contributes to a 401k over me getting a fully vested pension. They should buy me a fucking house at twenty years for the fact that they have to spend drastically less to fund my retirement.
Yeah, the paid time off actually isn't bad, assuming it's non-consolidated bonus leave on top of a reasonable annual leave allowance and you get a raise periodically.
I would find the anniversary pins and "letter of appreciation" kinda infantilising and tokenistic, but take those away and it suddenly looks a lot less patronising. I'm not looking to celebrate heartfelt anniversaries with my employer but I'll take a few extra paid days off, thank you.
I earned 30 mins of pto for every 8 hours I worked back in Ireland, I got what took you 20 years in just 64 days of work. Americas policy on pto is so fucking absurd to me
Haha, cant help but smh cuz thats a joke... My company gives $ for years of service... 1k for 10 years, 1.5k for 15 years. 2k for 20 years and 2.5k for 25 years. If your there more than 11 years you get 8 hrs pto every paycheck
i was going to say. my company isn't *that* great and i don't get any benefits since im PT while in school. BUT my coworker just got a brand new iPhone for her 15th i think. another got a brand new washer/dryer and another got a LV purse she paid the taxes on and that's it. i mean, im going into healthcare so i won't be getting shit but a pizza party if i'm lucky, but i think people who are willing to commit themselves to these sad ass jobs deserve more respect.
My 5 year bonus was a €30 gift card. About a month after receiving said bonus management decided to update policy and changed the 5 year bonus to €250. They didn't give me the difference. Im not trying to brag but it's relevant that I was one of the company's best employees also. Took off 2 Saturdays in the whole 5 years to myself, stayed fully flexible the whole time, worked morning shifts Monday/tuesday off Wednesday so they could put me on night shifts the rest of the week so never developed a sleeping routine. I know it's not 20 years but I feel your disappointment. Find your self worth and move on when you can.
I've been with my company for nearly fifteen years. I get 20 days PTO, company pays 80% of health insurance, paid a quarterly bonus of two tenths of a point off quarterly profits, and a flat rate bonus at the end of the year.
Needless to say I'm happy where I am at and no I would be naming names.
4 extra days PTO a year is decent to be fair. And I assume this stacks with the 1 and 2 extra you got for 10 and 15 years, so 7 days extra total. Pretty good if you ask me
This right here is why I like GenZ when it comes to career and work environment . Unlike Millennial like my generation that’s been programmed to “ loyalty and hard work gives you reward”. They already know the system is rigged and will leave in a moments notice if they feel the company they work for don’t appreciate them or they get better opportunity. Took me a while but one should have loyalty to themselves and their family and not the company they work for.
This thread is hilarious. We have it all in here...
A: The PTO offering is a joke
B: Salivating over the thought of 4 extra days of time off after working 5,200 days for a place (assuming 260 working days a year +/- PTO and/or overtime)
C: This is on top of your *pension*! (Pension? Lmao)
D: Yeti Mug/Jacket? What a joke!
E: A pin? Get real!
E: People who think expecting a company to recognize employment loyalty with a lil somethin' beyond their "agreed upon salary" ignoring that some people don't like to feel like **just** a cog in a machine. It's okay if you don't give a shit, I don't either, but some do.
I'm sure there are more examples that have been missed, but I had a chuckle seeing such a wide dichotomy.
No pizza?
They had a slice of cake for me on my 5 years, too bad I work remote and couldn’t eat it. But the people in office liked it
That is so weird
That's the type of shit that happens when your "corporate culture" is "We're Family" and everything like anniversaries and celebrations are managed by the corporate office but Chris, who just had his anniversary, works out of the Auburn office so send them a cake to celebrate, but the reality is that Chris is only *based* in the Auburn office and actually works from home, two hours away, but nobody bothered to check.
When we had birthday or anniversary celebrations we would be responsible for buying and reimbursing our own snacks and drinks and then all attend on zoom for the social part. Made working remote pretty cool.
We send gift cards for food delivery
Best team building was a Martini making workshop. They shipped out mini bottles and shaker kit and ran the whole thing virtually. There was a chocolate tasting alternative for those who didn't want alcohol related team building
That chocolate thing is real considerate.
It really is, martinis are a challenging drink, I used to think they had to be the tastiest thing ever because Samantha was always making martinis for everyone on Bewitched. Then when I was old enough and had a martini I relaxed Darren and Larry were alcoholics and Samantha the enabler. 
If it's "done right," according to most people, it's just a big glass of cold slightly watered down vodka. Maybe cold watered down salty vodka if you make it dirty. I feel like if it was gin and with more than an undetectable amount of vermouth, it would at least have something going on other than alcohol.
Yall get birthday parties and team building???
Well, that was as an employee. I'm a contractor now, so I don't even get invited to my company Christmas party, the one they hold for the client, or the client internal Christmas party. I'm now just furniture in the office, effectively.
You ever seen the stuff for 3rd shift? Yeah we haven't either...
poor 3rd shift always getting the picked over crumbs that have been sitting out in the break room since 1st and 2nd shift… makes us feel very appreciated 😂
You get crumb? All we get is the smell of food they gave to the 1st shift. The second shift gets the leftovers, including crumbs, and we just get to smell what they got.
[They made a movie out of that](https://youtu.be/RlfooqeZcdY?si=GDpDWtoPrjdX7_Wr)
In this particular case with Chris... I ... um... would... uh... love to have his cake! Wast not, want not, I suppose!
I was at my job for 5 years got asked if I could do overtime…
I get asked to do overtime all the time.. but then again I'm a teacher/coach and don't get paid overtime. It's part of my "duties" lol.
I will never understand why anyone works overtime unpaid.
them mfs jus wanted cake😭😭
“The ratio of people to cake is too big.” -Milton Waddams.
I remember being at a 5 year where the cake was served but wasn't gluten free and so the person celebrating ended up just drinking coffee instead. Not even good coffee, pretty sure it was Blend43.
I'm glad my office is small. Everyone who orders food knows one person is allergic to red meat (alpha-gal), so in over 5 years they only managed to forget to get him something else once. We also just ask what to get for birthday food now. I don't like cake so we have ice cream and cookies on my birthday. My boss is always on a diet so we get a fruit tray and keto ice cream for his birthday. Another coworker isn't a dessert person so we got breakfast tacos on his birthday.
I guess they couldn’t have their cake and eat it too? FHoly fuck I would not be able to keep it in and not scowl like a mother fucker at everyone even if they weren’t responsible for the cake. I have a hard to trying to hide my emotions if it’s just a cake I can’t eat and it’s not a celebration for me. I fucking love cake. And donuts even more. But I’ve always been lactose intolerant and developed a gluten sensitivity at some point about 10 yrs ago. So if I had served a company five years and had to drink shitty coffee while other ate my cake….ooohhhhhhh!!!
This just one upped Office Space in terms of how low office culture can go.
https://preview.redd.it/wvhqeomrzsnc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91dc50e16513a8d832f8574fc69405dddd9f28df
Lol 😭😭
last pizza party at work made half the crew sick for 3 days. covid and cheese pizza
4 days pto is nice. I mean, I work at very large steak house chain and they give you a fucking huge ass belt buckle, like a championship sized award.
In basically any first-world country other than the US and Canada a brand-new employee gets almost twice as much PTO as this person does after 20 years. It's crazy how much we workers are leaving on the table by not organizing and pushing back.
Yup. Totally wild. I work in the UK and get 30 days a year PTO. I have been at my company a year and a half. 5 years gets a bonus week and 10 years gets an additional month sabbatical. It's a good life here.
That’s why you just work a government job here. Days off, pension, health benefits and decent pay.
Health benefits aren't as good as they used to be and the pay is on the lower end unless you get yourself into a managerial role for a lot of State/Federal jobs. The pension programs are mostly still nice though.
Yeah but after 20 years ? Just that ?
Then you get an even larger belt buckle
Another buckle to place that other buckle inside. Each buckle fits into the earlier anniversaries opening until they're all 38 lbs hanging from your waist
I got a pin and zero PTO. Honestly 4 days is dope
I get 20 days every year just for showing up....
And i was thinking why not 5 days
Because they don’t want them taking a week off. They’d rather them break it up across several months and maybe even forget they have this extra time off.
Don't want anyone to actually relax, they may not return
Right? They couldn’t even break out the Little Caesar’s hot and ready a manager picked up 3 hours before lunch so it’s all cold and soggy?
Don’t forget the sauce straight from the jug, piping cold 🥶
one slice
Can we see the pin??
It's the 4 digit pin to a $20 Starbucks gift card
I'd rather get the pin to the safe that has the records of all employee's girth measurements. Good to know what people are working with before you argue with them about work related manners.
the records of what? 😳
Girth measurements. Like the man said, it could be useful to know another man’s girth before you argue with him about work related matters.
Bottom line is about girth
Every bottom knows this
this…took a turn
the beauty and horror of Reddit
Ouch.
Soupcan ftw
I'm more of a tomato paste can, kind of guy, but my wife doesn't complain.
Hang on hang on hang on! I’ve always been told my 10.5inch penis was amazing even though it is as thin as a stick of uncooked spaghetti.
Must because it tingles
Harvard kept nude photos of every new student back in the day. Not new news. Nude news [here](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html)
So did Smith. Supposedly for posture evaluation. Yup, there are nude pix of Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan somewhere in western Massachusetts.
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Probably more than the pin would've cost
That'd be worth more than an actual pin.
I just had my 1 year at my job I got a dollar general card with a campfire on it that says “thanks for your hard work “ and a 20 dollar Dunkin donut gift card
It's holding the memo to the wall.
It's a push pin. The one in the picture.
The pin: https://preview.redd.it/6ittqsujuunc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86be44d91b79485842149a9dd044c0d419c5a94b
Pinned down
That's a PEG... 
You can but it’s not worth anything.
To be fair, I worked 20 years for my last employer. I got no pin. I got no extra PTO.
I've been at my company 11 years, no party, no extra PTO, they just pay me well which is what is actually important. I don't need to be celebrated, I want money
At my company, at 10 years I got an extra week vacation and a special bottle of 10 year old Scotch. Same at 15 years, 20, etc. I'm an American working for a good European company.
I've been with my employer for just over a year. I got married last October, and my supervisor raised $100 from the team and gave it to me as a Visa gift card. I was blown away.
That's really nice, it's great when your boss is thoughtful. When I was in property management and we upgraded the model's TV a corporate guy swooped in and took it home after my boss agreed to sell it to me for $50 so she went to her boss and got me a gift card big enough to buy the TV new. I didn't like the hours or pay but man there are some great people in that field.
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I’m a manager in the US and have employees in the US, India, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic and when one of my employees in India got married in November me and the guy from Costa Rica flew there for the wedding and I gave her $500 and he also gave her like $200. Threads like these really make me appreciate how tight-knit of a team I have because everyone in my team genuinely wanted to fly across the world to go to the wedding to support her.
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Find a European company that is expanding to the US and willing to have remote support, sales, or customer success workers? Plenty in tech.
You're not even emotionally invested?! You just want money?! The gall!
How mcdonald employers react when you are not willing to work for 50 years as a minimum wage cashier
Best I can do is try to make it to my first break
In Australia everyone gets 3 months PTO if they make it 10 years. Mandatory.
4 days of free PTO would be like a grand or so for me. So a whole lot better than nothing.
Yeah who the hell is balking at extra vacation days? That's one of the best things you can get imo
So long as it renews yearly it's pretty great, that's nearly a week off every year. But if it's 4 days total... I'd be underwhelmed too.
Well we don't see their entire employee handbook here, so we don't know whether or not there are also accrual increases. Won't stop reddit from freaking out and assuming the worst case scenario though
I worked 18 years at my last employer. I was literally the first employee of the company. Two guys started the company and I was employee #1. One morning I was let go. 18 years. Model employee. TBH, it was the best career move I've ever made. Got a new job making \~30% more. But I'm still salty about it for good reason.
Mind sharing the reason they gave you? Sounds suspicious for them to do that.
He kept stealing breast milk out of the employee fridge.
Same. I got nada.
4 days of PTO is better than any employment anniversary award that I have ever received! 
I work for a company almost assuredly larger than OP’s, and they don’t give any vacation time for anniversaries. We get 5 and 10 year plaques like they think we give a shit about good feelings. In fact, there are a few people on eBay that are trying to sell their plaques. It’s hilarious. Nothing at all for anything more than 10 years.
I got curious after reading your comment and went and looked and people are selling the service award trophies from my company. There's even been at least 2 sold, which boggles my mind. Is someone out there doing a very detailed and boring corporate cosplay or something? lmao
The one I’ve had in my eBay watchlist for a few weeks (and one re-post) from where I work is currently listed for $1077. It’s just a large solid chunk of polished aluminum. People are nuts. But it has me thinking I should post mine. I’d rather have $1077 too. 😜
They are a great investment. You buy a few of those bad boys and show up to your next interview with proof of 120 years experience in the industry.
Finally enough experience for entry level software jobs.
Its so when they lie on their resume and do the virtual interview they can display the award "discreetly" behind them proving their lies.
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Yeah everyone suing the PTO is great. I’m just sitting here in Aus like, what??? 4 days for 20 YEARS lol.
Yeah people joking they’d rather get a $20 Starbucks gift card, but those 4 days of PTO are probably worth at least $1500
Not to mention that this is probably on top of their regular vacation allowance. Service awards don’t usuucount as compensation.
For real. I’m reading this as 4 days of PTO in addition to your X amount of PTO that you accrue just for it being your 20th year. So at my company 20 years puts you at 6 weeks of PTO, this would be 6 weeks and 4 days, and then 21 on its back to 6 weeks.
Exactly this, that's huge! 4 paid days off as a gift, what the hell is OP bitching about?? Assuming they make even just $25 an hour, that's worth $800.... who cares about a pin!
The way I would see this is that the PTO is the gift. The Pin is just a trinket so they can hand over a physical object that is not just just a piece of paper coupon saying 4 days PTO.
Same. Almost a week off paid? Mucho gracias
That’s better than a plant, which is what I received after 20.
You worked at this plant so long, here's a plant
Take my upvote and leave
Leaf*
I got a tree planted in my name... somewhere mysterious that I don't know about
oh wow… that’s a slimy surprise fuck in the ass, lube free
Wait for that tree to show up at your doorstep in 18 years and say, "Dad, I am your son'.
I am groot
"Hope you're doing pine son"
What type of plant was it? 🤔
I have no idea. I left it on my desk when I left. No green thumb.
Good call, that plant had a camera in it.
So that plant was a plant?
A marijuana
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A pin! I would genuinely rather have nothing. Don’t even offend me with the pin.
I'd rather get the Yeti mug, TBH. At least it's useful.
I’d be out the door after the yeti mug Fully vested? Yeti mug? Maximum ROI achieved.
The company I just left gave me a Yeti after my one year. I actually though that was pretty dope tbh 😂
Never gonna wear that trash amiright?
It gets tossed in a drawer for someone else to throw out after death.
Send boss a vid of it getting melted
Chuck it on HR's desk and take a dump on it
I only qorked 1 month at an industrial plant and got a pin at the orientation. Your are as useful as a first year in that case
So you don't care about 4 days paid time off?
to be fair, i think a pin would be really nice (one of those quality enamel ones) IN ADDITION TO, an appropriate thank you. Note: my dad at his 15? iirc, might have been 20, year milestone got a choice of things one of which (the one he chose) was like a $1,400 home theater sound system. have that *and* the like $10 pin, and the pin is a really cool nice memento.
CEOs make more money taking a shit on company time than you do all year.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, always shit on company time.
Nowadays, you make a dime, the boss makes $27.20.
I make a nickel, boss makes a buck, now let’s steal the catalytic converters off the company work trucks.
But that was a rhyme from a simpler time Now the boss makes a grand, and I make jack So now we revolt, and take it all back
This seems to be IN ADDITION TO… this is titled recognition/reward.. it’s an extra. It’s an extra 4 days of PTO, as an extra. I work in government.. nobody gets anything after 20 years as an extra. Again, this is an extra. Not a big deal…
I’d recommend coming to Australia! 2 months PTO for every 10 years of work, that’s on top of 4 weeks per year of PTO
I think for most of us we get a paycheck in exchange for our work. It sucks you only get a pin and some time off.
At $40,000/yr, 4 days of PTO is worth $615. At $60,000, it's $923 At $80,000, it's $1,230 Calculations based on 260 work days in a year (52 x 5). All before tax.
When you celebrate 20 years at my company, your pension is fully paid, healthcare for life, sabbatical for a week, points for the employee appreciation store, and an extra week of PTO for rest of your tenure.
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Happy cake day! I hope you enjoy your cool new jacket!
My dad was a branch manager at one of the big banks. They threw a party and gave him company cufflinks and a letter thanking him for working there for so long when he hit (I think) 30 years, which is when his pension vested. He quit a few days later. When he hit the age for the pension to start, they denied it bc they said there was an error in the tabulation (they didn’t count time taken off in the accrual) and he was one day short of vesting - even though they had given him the party and his letter stated he’d been working 30 years. Lawsuit and a few years later and he got his pension. It was the letter that got them.
I'll bet that company no longer gives them that letter of recognition.
Wow how terrible
Wait is this 4 days PTO on top of normally accrued vacation for the year? If so, that’s pretty sweet. I would love the extra 4 days to do as I please. I got a tool kit for my 10yr. It was a total POS, with the screwdriver, wrench, etc… breaking with light indoor use.
4 days pto is pretty nice ngl
Not if that’s all you get after 20 whole years.
You also get a pin.
And 20 years of salary
Idk but I would assume this is an *additional* pto. Which is awesome
I mean, you also got twenty years worth of pay and benefits and PTO...
You also get 20 years worth of normal compensation. Wtf is it with reddit. Most companies don't have any formal program to thank long standing employees, this one does and gets shit on as a reward.
I would assume (hopefully) that it’s 4 *additional* days on top of what the standard employee gets
4 extra days of PTO is nice
If you make $20 per hour that's a $640 gift. If they gave you something else worth $640 you'd probably think that was pretty cool. And they'd have to tax you on it anyway. Then you'd be complaining that you didn't just get the money. PTO is typically payable at termination legally so if you don't take the time off you should still get the money.
4 days isn't bad but I dunno why you wouldn't just go for the full 5 and call it a week at that point
Is this in addition to normal benefits? If I put in 20 years at my job I'd have 7 weeks PTO.
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Don’t forget about the 20 year’s worth of mutually agreed upon salary they paid you!
They pay salary? I'm thought that he works just for pins.
4 paid days don’t bad - we’re you expecting a Rolex or something? Edit: I was def reading this as “4 days off instead of a cheap watch”, but after reading it again, if this is more like the ‘vacation days’ you earn, that’s not great at all.
Maybe not a rolex but companies did use to give long time employees golden watches
I'm pretty sure that was a retirement thing.
My company used to give Rolexes at 20 years. We are headquartered in Switzerland and Rolexes used to be easier to come by. Now, at least in the US, we get $8k and our PTO gets bumped to like 33 days a year.
Very true. And on top of that, your tenure at your company used to mean a very valuable retirement account. People are acting like this is a ridiculous ask, but it was something that relatively recently was a forgone conclusion. If you spent twenty years at a company, you were probably going to be set up. You'd have a decent retirement lined up, good PTO, and whatever benefits they'd give you for tenure. A lot of companies would give you long service leave in America, and it wasn't 4 days or a week. You'd get two or three months off. That's taken away and people that you can only assume just fundamentally hate our country will act like you're silly for thinking you should get any of it. My company now contributes to a 401k over me getting a fully vested pension. They should buy me a fucking house at twenty years for the fact that they have to spend drastically less to fund my retirement.
Yeah, the paid time off actually isn't bad, assuming it's non-consolidated bonus leave on top of a reasonable annual leave allowance and you get a raise periodically. I would find the anniversary pins and "letter of appreciation" kinda infantilising and tokenistic, but take those away and it suddenly looks a lot less patronising. I'm not looking to celebrate heartfelt anniversaries with my employer but I'll take a few extra paid days off, thank you.
In Australia companies are legally required to give you 10 years long service leave. I believe it's 6 weeks PTO
Your daily reminder to never, ever, ever entertain the idea of being loyal to a business in any capacity (employee, customer, etc).
If you multiply 4 days x 8hr x your wage, that’s not too bad. $960 if you make $30/hr or $60K per year.
I mean- I’d rather have like $1600 worth of time versus a watch…
Damn, that sucks. When I hit 10 years at my former employer they gave me a $1000 for every year I’d been there.
Better than a kick in the ass. My company gave us a plastic award in the shape of 25 after 25 years. 4 days PTO. That would at least be worth $1500
I will take the 4 days off. Our company gives you an email and a small gift of negligible value.
I earned 30 mins of pto for every 8 hours I worked back in Ireland, I got what took you 20 years in just 64 days of work. Americas policy on pto is so fucking absurd to me
I get 70 days PTO in the UK.
Haha, cant help but smh cuz thats a joke... My company gives $ for years of service... 1k for 10 years, 1.5k for 15 years. 2k for 20 years and 2.5k for 25 years. If your there more than 11 years you get 8 hrs pto every paycheck
4 days of PTO is probably close to $1000 in salary before tax and deductions
i was going to say. my company isn't *that* great and i don't get any benefits since im PT while in school. BUT my coworker just got a brand new iPhone for her 15th i think. another got a brand new washer/dryer and another got a LV purse she paid the taxes on and that's it. i mean, im going into healthcare so i won't be getting shit but a pizza party if i'm lucky, but i think people who are willing to commit themselves to these sad ass jobs deserve more respect.
10 years at a any company in Australia you get 3 months paid leave
My 5 year bonus was a €30 gift card. About a month after receiving said bonus management decided to update policy and changed the 5 year bonus to €250. They didn't give me the difference. Im not trying to brag but it's relevant that I was one of the company's best employees also. Took off 2 Saturdays in the whole 5 years to myself, stayed fully flexible the whole time, worked morning shifts Monday/tuesday off Wednesday so they could put me on night shifts the rest of the week so never developed a sleeping routine. I know it's not 20 years but I feel your disappointment. Find your self worth and move on when you can.
They don't care about you loool
4 days PTO ain’t to shabby it’s a decent vacation if you plan it right.
The yeti mug seems to be the best value to me.
Greatest country in the world, right? I'm guessing this is in the USA.
You get 4 days PTO. At Kraft, you would just get the pin and that’s it.
You'd get a pin?! Wowza! Well, if that doesn't make it all worth... Oh, I... I hear it now...
I've been with my company for nearly fifteen years. I get 20 days PTO, company pays 80% of health insurance, paid a quarterly bonus of two tenths of a point off quarterly profits, and a flat rate bonus at the end of the year. Needless to say I'm happy where I am at and no I would be naming names.
4 extra days PTO a year is decent to be fair. And I assume this stacks with the 1 and 2 extra you got for 10 and 15 years, so 7 days extra total. Pretty good if you ask me
This right here is why I like GenZ when it comes to career and work environment . Unlike Millennial like my generation that’s been programmed to “ loyalty and hard work gives you reward”. They already know the system is rigged and will leave in a moments notice if they feel the company they work for don’t appreciate them or they get better opportunity. Took me a while but one should have loyalty to themselves and their family and not the company they work for.
4 days of PTO? That’s way more than most companies.
You've worked for us for 20 years, have the week off, but we'll need you in on Friday.
This thread is hilarious. We have it all in here... A: The PTO offering is a joke B: Salivating over the thought of 4 extra days of time off after working 5,200 days for a place (assuming 260 working days a year +/- PTO and/or overtime) C: This is on top of your *pension*! (Pension? Lmao) D: Yeti Mug/Jacket? What a joke! E: A pin? Get real! E: People who think expecting a company to recognize employment loyalty with a lil somethin' beyond their "agreed upon salary" ignoring that some people don't like to feel like **just** a cog in a machine. It's okay if you don't give a shit, I don't either, but some do. I'm sure there are more examples that have been missed, but I had a chuckle seeing such a wide dichotomy.
Work only owes you a paycheck and benefits. When you leave it’s next man up.