25 years in job....no recognition from company

TELLIT01

Carry on doing your job.  Most people don't get recognition for long service these days. 

TBagpuss

I think it is relatively unusual for this kind of thing to be marked. (I gather that it is perhaps more common in the US!) 

Does your employer typically mark other milestones? If so, perhaps you could suggest that work anniversaries such as 5,10 or 25 years are added to the list of official celebrations. 

If the situation is that other people who have been there for that length of time do get some form of recognition, then while I would not complain, I would raise it with HR or whoever deals with personnel, to point put that it is not being dealt with consistently and that that is demoralizing. 

 However, i think it's more usual for it to be something that might be mentioned or referred to when someone retires, rather than on an ongoing basis.

I think it's perhaps more common for the person celebrating the anniversary to mark it - like birthdays, bring in some cake and tell people it's to celebrate having been there for 25 years! 

mjm3346

Surely there should be a minimum of 30 years upwards before there is even a possibility it being considered "long" service. 

lincroft1710

Things have changed.


In 1940 my grandfather received a chiming clock from the BSA in recognition of his 25 years service. My father received a thank you from his boss (small local firm) for 25 yrs in 1972. I received absolutely zilch from Civil Service in 1995.


Be grateful that they even remember your name!!

Jillanddy

lincroft1710 said:

Things have changed.


In 1940 my grandfather received a chiming clock from the BSA in recognition of his 25 years service. My father received a thank you from his boss (small local firm) for 25 yrs in 1972. I received absolutely zilch from Civil Service in 1995.


Be grateful that they even remember your name!!

And be grateful they have. In 1940 you had next to no employment rights, and most people lived in real poverty The bloody clock didn't make up for that!

Where I work (public sector) they actually do still do long-service awards. You get the most god-awful cut glass rose bowl emblazoned with the coat of arms after 25 years. I am grateful only for the fact that I haven't worked there 25 years and won't ever! And not just to avoid the rose bowl - although that is certainly an incentive to not do so.

68ComebackSpecial

Undervalued said:

Jillanddy said:

You want to complain? What about?

It might be nice if they remembered - they probably didn't - but this is work. They have paid you, one assumes, and that that is the end of the contract. You turn up, they pay you for doing so. Gratitude isn't included. That said, you could drop them an email thanking them for employing you for 25 years...

This ^^^^

To be honest, particularly in bigger organisations, even if some recognition does happen it is so formulaic and impersonal as to be frankly meaningless. One former civil service (but now private) organisation I knew, circulated what staff sarcastically called the "Green Shield Stamp Catalogue" so that you could choose your own gift. However you first had to use a complex formula to see what level of gift you were allowed depending on your grade, length of service and several other factors. Yes, it really was as tacky as that!

Barclays bank still do this! My sister got to choose her 35 year gift last year - I think it was some diamond earrings from Goldsmiths.

MalMonroe

Yes, sadly people don't get any recognition for long service any more.

But on the positive side, you do still have a job - that's a great achievement in these days of uncertainty.

And you are obviously doing well at it or they'd have booted you out before now.

So there are some positives, even though you don't get a prize. You're obviously doing a great job. 

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster

Well l beg to differ. 

I worked in an organisation where we set up a focus group so that people who got to 20 years got a gift and extra leave.

In this day and age where people tend to move on quite quickly loyalty should be celebrated. That's someone who likely has years of valuable experience. 

In my current role l have picked it up again after someone left after 42 years without so much as a by your leave. The majority of you may think it's acceptable but l certainly do not. 

Marvel1

I would be grateful for having a job for 25 years and no redundancy etc.

Manxman_in_exile

I worked in the same NHS organisation for 25 years and never got anything regarding it.  Not even an email.