10 years service not acknowledged

[OneGreyBiscuit]

I've worked for the same company for 10 years - on either 2nd or 3rd of November. Gone into work today and nothing. How petty some of you may think, but considering another employee got recognition for 5 years service not too long ago with a nice bunch of flowers and chocs aibu to not feel slightly miffed?

I’ve never had any recognition of time served in any of my jobs. Surely that’s not a thing until you retire?

Same as pp, this isn’t a thing at my work place, other than when someone retires after 30 years etc… perhaps there was another reason for the five year acknowledgment?

Not everyone does but as I stated above someone did not so long ago. Obviously not a chosen one.

I'd be upset too if somebody else had had recognition and I didn't. Is it discretionary or does your company have a policy about it? My company starts its long service awards at 20 years.

I asked another manager of a different dept this morning and she said they do get a notification of service.

Dh gets a certificate and vouchers for every 5 extra years he has worked. He's got certificates for 20, 25 and 30 years. And he got 200, 250 and 300 pounds of vouchers.

Me? I work in a school and have been at the same school for 25 years. There's no recognition for length of service.

Not discretionary at all as the manager asked us all to gather our back when she presented her with her reward.

DH had just received recognition for ten years. I'm a bit miffed as I started my job two weeks after him but as I had a break in the middle where I left the company for a year what came before doesn't count so I'm on 4 measly years at the moment when in fact I started at the company ten years ago.

But my point is is it ok to pick and choose who receives this? It wouldn't fuss me if none of us got any recognition for length of service.

I was all ready to say my only recognition of my service (almost 30 years) is payday every month, until I read that there had been something made of a colleague’s 5 years (wtf?).
This kind of thing should be everyone or no one-and not manager dependent , so you’re not being unreasonable to feel a bit miffed

I'm so bored of people assuming their very limited (not an insult, all of our lives are very small when considered in overall context, in this case the millions of different workplaces, 99.9999999% of which you havent experienced) lives are normal so "surely" none of the other 7 billion people on the planet could possibly experience anything slightly different.

So insular and inward looking.

My company recognises and gift staff for service at 5 years then every 10 years after that so in your scenario, 10 year service would not be recognised.

You what? LOL
I think you don't realise how unimportant and dispensable employees are for businesses.

The whole point of my post is aibu to be miffed that someone's five year service was recognised but my 10 years has been ignored. This is a thing at the company I work for, it might not be at everyone's but it is at mine.

Is your companies policy to recognise 5 years and 10 years? If so then yes, they are being unreasonable.

Did you get anything when you reached five years ?

Fair enough. But I am one person with one opinion and one set of experiences. Which are as valid as anyone else’s on an open forum. So tough luck if that bores you quite frankly.

So its been done once? Has anyone else ever had it recognised?

It’s not even 10am. Maybe it will be done this afternoon or at the end of the week.

Did the other person make a fuss saying hey had been there nearly 5 years before the 5 year service was recognised. Sometimes it’s he who shouts the loudest.

i left my last job after 15 years and didn’t even get a leaving gift from the staff.

also dh has worked for the same company for 36 years and never had any recognition for it!

Did they recognise when you hit 5 years, it doesn't sound like it from your posts?

What did your manager say when you enquired about why you hadn't received any acknowledgement?

Yeah I'd be annoyed if someone else got it... But if give it a week or so because maybe it's just delayed.
Where we work we have to fill out an online form when we have been there for 10/20 years in order to get our service award...are you sure it's automatic?

Nope and a lot of others haven't but this is a new manager who rewarded the five year service. Looking at the poll it seems 50/50. Id like some opinions on why I'm being unreasonable? I turn up, I'm never late, I do my job, achieve my target every shift. It screams of favouritism to me.

My shift finished at 8am.

Has anyone else received recognition in the time you’ve been there, or is it literally just this one person? Who organised the gift? I’d be querying that with management!