Long Service awards

[juice]

A silver plated Business Card holder..but it has my initials engraved on it!!! ...Oh the joy

[Jezza30]

stevedrummie said:

25 years service with the Local Authority..£10 Argos gift voucher.Could have had a biro instead.I kid you not.
Steve

Don't worry, the final salary pension will kick in soon

[Ciaran]

15 years last week and not so much as a thanks.

[zippy500]

20 years at Rolls Royce last Monday and £750 to spend

[Matt_N]

Ive just done 5 years here, an extra 5 days a year holiday will do me nicely.

[amirzed]

Only 5 of us in our co., small family run firm, for the Secretary's 20 year service we swapped her old Ford Ka for a Brand new Aygo - a small price to pay for some excellent and loyal service hopefully for a few years yet!

Edited by amirzed on Thursday 17th September 09:57

[Puggit]

amirzed said:

Only 5 of us in our co., small family run firm, for the Secretary's 20 year service we swapped her old Ford Ka for a Brand new Aygo - a small price to pay for some excellent and loyal service hopefully for a few years yet!

[escargot]

Ciaran said:

15 years last week and not so much as a thanks.

Bloody hell.

Anyone would think you worked there for free out of the goodness of your own heart.

[garycat]

My father in law worked for London Electricity Board for most of his working life. After 20 years service he got a small desk calender with a fake aluminum plaque thanking him for 20 years service.

After 30 years he got a replacement plaque to stick over the 20 year one!

[Fats25]

I did not quite make my 10 years at the previous company, leaving after 9 years and 9 months. However you had the choice of any items up to the value of $250. Trouble was the items had to come from the corporate shop.

Would not have been too bad if this had been a shop, or something with decent stock, but it was an insurance company, so it was golf umbrellas, golf balls, pens, torches, belts, cufflinks - all of the corporate logo'd (how do you spell that?!) crap that is given out. I was not too upset to miss out on this!

Best I know of was someone who every 10 years service is given a 6 month, fully paid sabatical. He is on his 17th year now, so 3 more to go for his next one. That is the best perk I have ever heard of to encourage you to stay......

[Ozone]

25 years this month and haven't seen anything yet.......

[DangerousMike]

I believe that 40 years at a certain card company used to bring with it a round-the-world ticket. I don't think they do it anymore.

[CY88]

10 years in my office gives you an extra couple of days leave and entitlement to take up to one year unpaid career break whilst they hold your job open.

[michaeljclark]

Have my 5 year presentation 3 month ago (albiet it also being a year late)

A 1/2 Krugerrand (It's a South African firm) and a nice photo of me and the Top Boss and his 'Oppo (who both flew in from SA for the award ceremony)

In another 4 years I'll get a whole Krugerrand

[john_r]

I was self-employed for 4 years. So I brought myself a new GTR...

[Mattt]

michaeljclark said:

In another 4 years I'll get a whole Krugerrand

They give you the other half?

[Matt_N]

michaeljclark said:

Have my 5 year presentation 3 month ago (albiet it also being a year late)

A 1/2 Krugerrand (It's a South African firm) and a nice photo of me and the Top Boss and his 'Oppo (who both flew in from SA for the award ceremony)

In another 4 years I'll get a whole Krugerrand

Like that. Its a good keep sake that'll always be worth a few bob.

[TheGreatSoprendo]

I'll be hitting my 10 year anniversary with my current employer next year (touch wood!), which means I'll get an extra day's holiday entitlement, £150 in my pay packet (for 1 month only, sadly), £100 to spend on whatever I fancy using my company credit card and £50 for celebratory drinks.

[michaeljclark]

Mattt said:

michaeljclark said:

In another 4 years I'll get a whole Krugerrand

They give you the other half?

LOL

I wondered who'd spot that first, for the uninitiated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krugerrand

[cazzer]

After just under 10 years with my previous company last year I got....
Made redundant. (With no redundancy pay as they sold the assets then liquidated)

Ta.