30 Things People Got After Working For A Company For Ten Years, From Grand To Plain Sad

A trip for 2 anywhere in the world (reimbursed up to $7500). My Wife & I did a 17 day trans-atlantic cruise from Florida to Europe for less than $2000 out-of-pocket.

Almost 9 years here. My company gave me a six figure stock bonus (vests over 4 years). I will likely stay here as a result.

If companies reward employees, meaningfully, then employees are more loyal and willing to work hard.

I work at a midsize HVAC company (about 250 employees), got a signed hockey stick by the whole team and some really good tickets for a game. My boss knows I'm a big hockey fan so it was pretty sweet to get.

Aside from that, they've generally been good to me over the years and it's the reason I've stuck around so long.

Edit: Well that's a lot more responses than I expected. For those who asked, it's the Hurricanes and I work in Service.

I took a voluntary separation and got 10 months of pay on my 10th anniversary. Best choice I have ever made. Found a new job with a 15% raise that started a few weeks later.

At Starbucks, at 10 years you get an extra couple of shares of stock, an award, and you are eligible for one year off with no loss of stature when you come back(it’s called a coffee break) and, if you are over 55, been with them for over ten years and then retire, you get a pound of coffee a week and 30% off for the rest of your life.

A tie clip. I am a woman.

Not a goddamn thing.

You think a company that gave raises of 4¢ (yes, that's correct. 4 American cents) gives a s**t about you working there for 10 years?

One coworker got a 1¢ raise. He complained, and they fired him.

F**k LKQ.

I remember working in a fast food joint (think, very large global chain). I started in '96 and in '08 I got my reward for ten years service.

It was a pen and pencil.

Yup.

I got to pick an item - fancy steak knives I actually really like and a $250 gift card to my favourite bike shop

Either a $2000 TAGheuer watch or $2000 worth of travel credit. (Took the travel)

A paper saying they planted a tree in another province that I will never see.

10 years was too long ago to remember. For 30 years, I received an "AI-personalized" video of my career, in practice a 60.000-sharp seconds video glorifying the company, where the first two seconds were "[insert name here], remember what we did together".

In other words, a level of b******t well beyond a diarrhea epidemic in any large herd.

I got $1000x yrs of service every year at my last job I lasted a little over 15 yrs.

I bounce around too much for my jobs so I asked my mom who was in finance from the late 80s on. Her 10 year anniversary was a cell phone and a week-long trip to Italy. She also got a stipend in the form of traveler’s checks. Her 20th was done as a group of other 20 years where they were flown out to dinner at the CEOs house and then a vacation. Her 30th was a selection of vacations but she opted for the cash bonus. Today, I’m pretty sure most anniversaries would be forgotten and it would be a normal day for a lot of workers. They don’t really do “big” stuff anymore.

I got 500 Pounds, 2 extra days holiday ( I now have 37) and dinner for my spouse and I.

At 20 years you get a another month's wages and dinner for up to 20 people.

A cheap pin along with my continued employment.

A previous job gave me a nice mantel clock at 5 years. That clock is now almost 30 years old and still works great.

Fortune 75. Letter, actual pen/paper, thanking me for my 10 years, extra week of vacation, monetary award, and an anniversary gift chosen from a catalog ($300 bakeware set).
The 20 year was even better; all the above but grabbed a lever action rifle instead of bakeware.

I hit 25 years recently. I got some headphones that I picked out of a catalog and a thank you card where a bunch of people misspelled my name.

23 years this year they gave those with 20 years service a free breakfast! Those who were off that day got nothing…

I got a plaque with my name spelled wrong on it.