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Sorry if this has been posted before (I searched ineffectively), but I received a useless retirement gift from my employer upon my leaving my employer.
Let me just say that if you have any say in selecting a gift for exiting employees, please do not give any crystal or placard or other item that will just go in the trash. I can look online and see that you spent about $100 on this bit of bling.
Furthermore, as I cleaned out my office, I threw out similar "awards" for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, and 20 years of service. I have good memories, but I don't need the clutter. And because these things have my name engraved on them, I cannot sell them easily on E-bay and Craigslist. OK, I haven't tried, but maybe one day I will be famous enough that someone will buy them. Not.
Clearly, the piece was mostly to make them feel good.
I suppose a better gift would have been a new smart phone for me to replace the corporate phone they were taking away from me. Yep, that would've been nice. Or even a watch since it is smaller, takes up less space, and let's me tell time.
OK, rant over. Your turn. What would you like to get? Or what did you get?
(I put this in "Young Dreamers", but I suppose it could go elsewhere on the forum.)
Let me just say that if you have any say in selecting a gift for exiting employees, please do not give any crystal or placard or other item that will just go in the trash. I can look online and see that you spent about $100 on this bit of bling.
Furthermore, as I cleaned out my office, I threw out similar "awards" for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, and 20 years of service. I have good memories, but I don't need the clutter. And because these things have my name engraved on them, I cannot sell them easily on E-bay and Craigslist. OK, I haven't tried, but maybe one day I will be famous enough that someone will buy them. Not.
Clearly, the piece was mostly to make them feel good.
I suppose a better gift would have been a new smart phone for me to replace the corporate phone they were taking away from me. Yep, that would've been nice. Or even a watch since it is smaller, takes up less space, and let's me tell time.
OK, rant over. Your turn. What would you like to get? Or what did you get?
(I put this in "Young Dreamers", but I suppose it could go elsewhere on the forum.)