Ruwhei(1/2) After 25 years at my employer (crazy for tech...) I was given the chance to choose a gift from the "anniversary" catalog. Most gifts were in the $200 range. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but really... Anyway, I chose a wallet - all the other gifts were pretty weird (a basic microscope? A wine opener?) Anyway, a $225 wallet. "Real Leather" "Handcrafted" "Detroit based" etc. Well, it was made in Vietnam, anyway. My current wallet was disintegrating and I didn't have a (...)
replacement. So I put my cards in it -- it held considerably fewer things than my old wallet, and it didn't seem that great anyway. I put it on my dresser, and saw there, behind the TV - a wallet I had purchased and forgotten about. For $40, it was pretty much indistinguishable from this "$225" one. Sigh. 25 years for this...
Bersl@ruwhei My company used to give most-expenses-paid trips to Hawaii at 10 years before the founder retired. They're supposedly going to continue the practice, but I haven't heard from HR about mine yet.
@bersl2 That sounds great! Hah, much better than a $75 gift at that rate. My company's anniversary gifts are holdover from a distant unionized past, and doesn't reflect their advantages in other areas (like benefits, PTO quantity, and compensation)