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I have worked 33 plus years for my boss......
have on offer a sundial or egg timer....
RADU
Nearing 25
Soon it will be 25 years of being on my own. Perhaps I should give myself a raise and an all expense paid trip to Branson.
I worked for a private firm for 10 years and 5 months. At 10 years they gave me a leather bomber jacket which I still have. Then they ran out of money 5 months later; I guess the jacket was the last straw.
I have worked for the government ever since. I think the State gives service pins (and stripes) to law enforcement and fire fighters but not regular slobs like me. That's OK, I don't expect anything special, just a paycheck and an interesting job both of which I have.
I got a pat on the back.
My wife tells me daily I am her hero for going out there in the brutal heat and working so hard. That is much appreciated. The dog thinks I'm wonderful, except when she is eating and ignores me because with a Beagle food is #1. The cat appreciates me too, but only on his very narrow terms, like when he wants to take a nap and hollers for me to tuck him in.
Nothing at 10, nothing at 20 years. At 25 years, I took the company.
Bruce
Holy Cow
That's like an all expense paid trip to Ft. Leavenworth unless you're geriatric. 🙂
How about something for the employer who has kept you employed, paid a decent wage, and paid for various benefits including vacations, holidays, sick leave, health care, numerous government requirements,etc., etc.
Seems like a fair trade to me...Work for pay.
How do you thank him or her?
By bitching about what you did or didn't get for some anniversary?
Why are you entitled to more than the owner of the company, who puts his a$$ on the line every day, and who more than likely, makes less than you do?
> How about something for the employer who has kept you employed, paid a decent wage, and paid for various benefits including vacations, holidays, sick leave, health care, numerous government requirements,etc., etc.
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> Seems like a fair trade to me...Work for pay.
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> How do you thank him or her?
> By bitching about what you did or didn't get for some anniversary?
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> Why are you entitled to more than the owner of the company, who puts his a$$ on the line every day, and who more than likely, makes less than you do?
I guess you have a fair statement. However, since your reply was directed at me, allow me to say that I'm the one running the show. My father has all but retired. The roles have been reversed. I thinking of a kick butt rifle for him when he finally does retire fully.
As far as what I'm entitled to, well, I'm actually entitled to all the phone calls, all the butt chewings, all of the weight of all the decisions upon me, all of the HR problems, all of everything. I accept that. I also keep track of when I have to buy my first watch for my first employee that hits 10 years.
To that end of making less, I figured it up one time. Yes, per hour, I make less money. I also knock off early on Friday's a lot of times, take my kids to school daily, pick them up daily, and take off when I feel like I can.
I got a glass ball that sits on my desk for 5 years' service. They gave it to me the day after I was laid off.
5 years nothing,
10 years nothing
15 years a member of the Board of Directors
18 years, I left to start Outermost Land Survey, inc. and they gave me a gift certificate to the local sporting goods store so I could get a full body wetsuit! 🙂
Sounds like you've got your priorities in the right place Kris. A nice rifle for pa sure sounds sweet too. No doubt he's proud of things.
I wish one of my kids would have wanted to become a surveyor. Instead I got a nurse, an aerospace engineer (working for Chrysler) and a tree hugger who wants to be the next CEO of The Nature Conservancy. I'd say that's going 3 for 3, so no complaints from me (ok, maybe the tree hugger - but she's only 22 and very smart so she'll likely see the light in a few years).
I am surprised they did not make you wear a PFD and nomex like some clients I know.
Congrates on making 20years. I hope to make that mile stone in 14 years w/my current company.
Wayne
> and a tree hugger who wants to be the next CEO of The Nature Conservancy. I'd say that's going 3 for 3, so no complaints from me (ok, maybe the tree hugger - but she's only 22 and very smart so she'll likely see the light in a few years).
At least she's a "Free Market Tree Hugger"; the current CEO of The Nature Conservancy is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs and teaches at the NYU School of Business.
James
That was a bit tongue in cheek. She's a senior in college majoring in Natural Resource Management with a Business major. This is her 3rd flip flop of degrees: teaching, marketing, now this. She is quite the people person and I have no doubt she'll do quite well, wherever she lands.
But when she told me this last year, I kind of chuckled and said "...so now it's tree hugging and you want to run Greenpeace..." We both got a good laugh, but her heart is true. She likely will become a CEO in that industry.
...beats the heck out of surveyin... naw, no way. They just make more money
5 years nothing, 20 years nothing, at 26 years they took away 500 hours of accumulated sick leave when we changed ownership, just months before I needed surgery. But I do get to keep all the loose change I find while working on a project, even though I am on company time. Think that is a policy that management just hasn't thought through yet.
Our group giver you a pin and certificate for every five years of service. I have several of them some where. The best thing they give you is an extra week of vacation after 3 years, and at the 18 year mark, they giver you another week of vacation. They used to give us decent cost of living raises each year, and regular increases for years of service. The cost of living raises have gone away, but some of us still get raises for length of service.
I have 10+ years with the State. What with Annual Leave (an option which is Vacation plus 4 hours per month in exchange for no sick leave which is 8 hours per month under the Vacation option), Personal Leave Program of 2010 (8 hours per month unpaid leave), Professional Development Program (16 hours per year), Personal Holiday (1 per year) and Holidays (11 per year) I can take 2 months off and my balances will stay the same. I can't get my job done that way though.
