25 work anniversary gift is not the same as other colleague even though we have a HR long service

DullGreyGuy

Grumpy_chap said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Grumpy_chap said:

I must be the lucky one - after 8 years with my first employer, I got relocated and they gave me a lump sum relocation allowance which was the deposit on my first house.
At 12 years, I got relocated again so moved up the housing ladder.
At 15 years, I got made redundant with enough money to refit the kitchen and bathroom.
Very generous of them indeed.

Was the relocation anything to do with the length of service?
 

No.

It did all work out very well, though.
I was on £14.5k
They gave me £8k.
First house was £59,990 - I would not pay more to keep under £60k stamp duty threshold.

Yours was more generous in cash, ours was £6k, though the hotel etc would have made it above £8k but a 2 bed house would have been £300k and a 1 bed flat about £175k so we were firmly in renting territory 

Savvy_Sue

stuhse said:

Grumpy_chap said:

I must be the lucky one - after 8 years with my first employer, I got relocated and they gave me a lump sum relocation allowance which was the deposit on my first house.
At 12 years, I got relocated again so moved up the housing ladder.
At 15 years, I got made redundant with enough money to refit the kitchen and bathroom.
Very generous of them indeed.

How on earth did you get your name with luck like that ?

We Grumpies can be invaluable in the workforce. We know what we're doing, and we do it well, without any flannel.  

We used to have a paid sabbatical after 10 years, but it was phased out a few years after I'd had mine. No long service, but I didn't make it to 25 years anyway: I was planning to retire in a few months and had made no secret of it, but then they offered me redundancy if I went a month earlier!