This is my **5 year** work anniversary gift from my Fortune 500 employer. 100% Not joking.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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There’s a certain level where the gift is arguably more insulting than not getting anything…
As an IT worker, I can assure you that they have boxes of these in a storage room somewhere.
No music/dance experience and melon bars?
Ya’ll get gifts at the five year mark?
that’s sick u even get a gift
Dude, you’re getting a Dell…mouse.
I hit 10 last September. I was the only one that knew. Needless to say I didn’t get a gift. Or even a thanks.
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At 10 years I got an acrylic rectangular prism with my name etched in it from my Fortune 100 employer. The dick punch that got me out the door was a 1.5% raise in the midst of the great resignation
Look at fancy pants over here getting gifts for work anniversaries smh.
Friend of mine called me and was so psyched he won some sales goal target competition and was on his way to go collect his new TV!
He gets there and it’s a 65″ Pioneer Xumo TV that retails for under 200 bucks.
All I could say was “You can tell you’re appreciated”
My previous employer, at the time the largest investor-owned utility company in the United States, sent me my five-year anniversary gift (a little engraved glass block) “postage due”, so in order to receive the package I would have had to pay roughly $20 for it. Needless to say, I didn’t ever take delivery of said gift, and I didn’t stick around long enough to get my ten-year.
My current employer just gives company stock as the anniversary gift. Guess which company I’m happier at.
Nice… at least it’s not Amazon Basic mouse 🙂
I got an embroidered apron patch and a glass “swoosh” with my name on it from my two Fortune 500 employers in my career. Honestly, the bigger a company is the less they care about their employees.
You don’t make it to the Fortune 500 by giving away lavish gifts to everyone, ya know!
It’s a race to the bottom, and greed is driving.
We need to start respecting wisdom from history. From religious text to non fiction, there’s so many warnings about greed and gluttony. Im starting to think people who didn’t have TikTok and entertained themselves by thinking all day really understood the ins and outs of human behavior.. 😀
Is that the one you buy in volumes of 400 for a few dollar a piece? They bought them in bulk and don’t know what to do with the remaining few hundred. I’m surprised they haven’t just passed them around the office.
Yikes, when I hit 5 years I got 5 more PTO days.
I don’t want a mouse or a pizza party. What I’d like is someone to do one thing to make our jobs less shitty. Like perhaps have a planning meeting and actually fucking plan something.
Yes. 37 years of IT have jaded me. I will retire and say goodbye to no one, and I bet it takes them a few months to realize I’m gone. I had exactly one meeting with my boss in 2024. And sure that sounds great but it’s not.
Once upon a time, I worked for a big name company. For 16 years they gave the lamest x-mas presents. I left the year someone else took over and that year they all got iphones and iPads. dmmit!
A gift at 5 years is actually pretty cool ngl.
The company I work for gives a massive gift at 25 years (used to be 25 shares, now it’s the equivalent in cash as a bonus check).
But nothing till then.
Considering they don’t have to give you anything besides a paycheck, that’s pretty sweet.
I mean, I’d rather good pay and benefits over a gift. How have those been over the last 5 years?
I just opted for a super low rated Camelbak backpack after 5 years at an engineering firm. Just give me time off or cash please.
I work for a big ass bank that makes money hand over fist and was gifted a plant last year when I hit 25 years.
Fortune 500 means they’re a PROFITABLE company. You don’t make profit by spending money on silly things like employees.
I’ve been at a Fortune 500 company for almost 15 years. I have not received anything for a service anniversary yet.
I think at 15 or 20, I’ll be posted on a service anniversary notice on our internal home page.
They didn’t even put their shitty company branding on it? Lame!
Damn, all I get is a paycheck every week.
Luuuckyyy
Nice. Fresh out the e-cycle bin
Just passed four years at my job and my reward was learning they’re more strictly adhering to company policies and now if we call off four times in a year we might get fired.
I feel so appreciated.
Just don’t choose anything.
Let HR sweat it out over something so shitty.
My company gave me a shitty plaque at 5 years, which I thought they couldn’t do any worse. I was wrong. At 10 years, they sent me a magnetic 10 that covered up the 5 on the original plaque.
At least you got something.
I get you feel shorted somehow, but most companies don’t recognize a five year anniversary. In fact, the majority of companies only recognize retirements.
Behold the warriors legendary item, or something
Kinda sad. Sorry! We all know you’re worth more than that!!
I got a keychain.
Don’t get me wrong it was a nice robust steel keychain. By far the strongest keychain I’ve ever owned. But they spent $20 to UPS it overnight from the vendor.
They could’ve saved $10 in shipping to send it Ground Saver and sent me a $10 gift card for Taco Bell and I would had been over the moon about it.
Honest question: would you prefer a terrible gift like this, or no gift at all? I ask as a small business owner who struggles with gift-giving.
You guys are getting gifts? Tomorrow morning when I walk through that door I’ll be hitting 15 years. There might be an 8×11 piece of paper with my name and the fact I’ve been there 15 years. That is all. If you aren’t gonna use that mouse I could sure use a new one…
Look at this guy, gloating about having 5y work anniversary gift
Dude!, you’re getting a Dell.
Why should employees get gifts for work anniversaries?
Do you think you should get a gift? You work and get compensated aka paid for that time? So getting a gift as the name implies is infact just that a gift
Most people get a color printout with a number 5 on it. You can take solace in the fact that they’ve also paid your salary for five years.
did you want a house? or free trip to Bahamas?
Well, at least it looks like a good mouse… it could definitely be worse.