I got to select a service award gift today for giving my university ten years of my life. Options included a grill scraper, and a pearl necklace with only one fake pearl. I feel very appreciated.
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aug 27, 2025, 6:05 am • 1 0 • view
I got a ball point pen and a card as my service award after 25 years with my school board. The pen had the school board's logo on it and stopped working after a few months. So yeah, it could be worse - lol!
aug 27, 2025, 4:10 am • 2 0 • view
Shit in the deans office to show how appreciated you feel lmfao
aug 27, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm ngl I read that as a "gill scraper and a pearl necklace" and I was wondering what weird mermaid university you went too.
aug 27, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
I feel you. My last service award choices were a tie pin or a lapel pin.
aug 27, 2025, 5:14 am • 2 0 • view
I persuaded my spouse to take the 25-years-of-service portable plastic cooler thing with shoulder strap. Grill scraper could have been good…
aug 27, 2025, 2:20 am • 2 0 • view
Juuuuuuuust one. 1️⃣
aug 27, 2025, 11:36 am • 1 0 • view
I got a tie tack with the company logo on it.
aug 27, 2025, 1:41 am • 1 0 • view
Very much appreciated 😮💨
aug 27, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
they must need the money more than you do
aug 27, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
Two fake pearls would have been gaudy.
aug 27, 2025, 3:14 am • 2 0 • view
25 years as a Federal employee, and I got a pin with a fake diamond that only showed up in my 27th year. Hell, a grill scraper would be an upgrade.
aug 27, 2025, 12:55 am • 2 0 • view
The showing up 2 years later is very civil service.
aug 27, 2025, 10:54 am • 3 0 • view
Truly. All I got for my 10-year was a trip to Afghanistan, so I'd take the grill scraper as well.
aug 27, 2025, 3:12 am • 2 0 • view
You've been in uni ten years? I though the cycle was only 4 years
aug 27, 2025, 11:09 am • 1 0 • view
Yep, a decade.
aug 27, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I read this really weird. Like, it was a whole bunch of pearls, but only one was fake. Guess which! Also, that sucks. I'm sorry.
aug 27, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
My reward for 14 years service last week was a redundancy notice... 😢
aug 27, 2025, 6:33 am • 2 0 • view
I've been at my institution 30+ years; we just get pins for Long Service, but legend has it there's a gift catalog for when you retire
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
Service award for 30 years with federal government is nothing
aug 27, 2025, 5:07 am • 2 0 • view
My ten year was a Cuisinart citrus juicer 🤣 It's been super useful actually (same with the fireproof document box I got for five years)
aug 27, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view
Not even a pearl-handled grill scraper?
aug 27, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
I chose the camp lantern. I already own a camp lantern.
aug 27, 2025, 12:38 am • 25 0 • view
But now you have *two* Sad there was no juicer. Super helpful for mocktails and NA punches.
aug 27, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
Someone took the singularity of "PEARL necklace" far too literally. x_x
aug 27, 2025, 1:14 am • 2 0 • view
you could play demolitions with it?
aug 27, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
.... Yeah, id take the lamp too. 😑
aug 27, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
Stay classy Ferris, stay classy
aug 27, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
Sigh. Why are these gifts always so insulting. Honestly, I think it would be better if you just got a form letter for your anniversay.
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 am • 10 0 • view
Genuinely, yes.
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 am • 10 0 • view
Both 5 and 10 years were memorialized with lapel pins advertising those degrees of stubbornness. 15 coming soon... I'll try to act surprised
aug 27, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
Do Americans get long service leave? Like I’ve seen yall talk about 10 year gifts from companies and stuff but in Aus what we get is gov mandated 8weeks of paid holiday. Which I think is in addition to normal holidays.
aug 27, 2025, 7:51 am • 7 0 • view
Lolololololololololololol No. No, we do not. The cheap and worthless gift is all we get. Hell, the signature on the form letter they give me to say thanks won't even be genuine.
aug 27, 2025, 10:35 am • 3 0 • view
And 8 weeks of paid holiday would be incredible. I get zero. Sick leave only. Which I can't really use. You know, because there's nobody to cover my classes. So I have to teach while ill. I currently have over a full semester of sick leave banked, because I can't use it. 683 hours. 17 weeks.
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 am • 12 0 • view
I've been at my job for three years and I get three weeks of paid vacation and one week of paid sick time. Cripes, I wouldn't put up with that
aug 27, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
Their response is "its only a mines month contract. You get the whole summer off." *Unpaid*. And that's when I have to do my research work anyway, so I'm not actually off. Education has been utterly gutted in the US.
aug 27, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
Oh now I get it. I don't want to make you jealous but ... Don't tell anyone If you move in Italia we have lots of holidays, especially if you work in educational system Shhhhhhh 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
aug 27, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
I know very well, and I loved my time in Florence while I was there. But the EU makes it ***extremely*** difficult for someone to immigrate. And Italy is harder than average.
aug 27, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
That is true, but believe me, all that youth need to do is to put a foot in. If you manage to get in the house nobody kicks you out. It's hard to find a job, especially for trans folks, and there's bigotry too, but I am sure the old Europe is easy better and more fair than the US.
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Believe me, momma, you're not safe anymore with that fat orange Hutt in chief. Not even in your own house
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 pm • 2 0 • view
I know. I can't leave without my family, Lilli.
aug 27, 2025, 12:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Ohhh I understand. 😞
aug 27, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
And I'm not youth. I'm 40, hun. It's... not that simple. For me, it'd have to be legal immigration or nothing. And I'm sorry, but Europeans have *absolutely no concept* of how brutally inaccessible almost all of your member nations have made immigration. There are like... 3 possible nations.
aug 27, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Ooh, and you know how common this problem is? In our union contract, if you retire after 20 years of service or more, they pay out your full sick leave balance. But not until then, you know. You only get 50% if you've only worked there a decade. America is such a dystopia.
aug 27, 2025, 10:42 am • 22 0 • view
But don't you know, Zoe? It's all so we have so much freedom! Isn't that great? /s
aug 27, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
What freedom?
aug 27, 2025, 12:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Fuck, I hate it here.
aug 27, 2025, 12:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I feel like I'm going mad just reading this 😠
aug 27, 2025, 10:45 am • 2 0 • view
When you write down the everyday realities of American life, they're just so enraging, aren't they?
aug 27, 2025, 10:47 am • 2 0 • view
It is, in fact, utterly fucked. 😞
aug 27, 2025, 10:46 am • 1 0 • view
jesus christ. i think you get your leave and sick days paid out no matter how long you worked at a place over here. and i dont even understand this one but when youre on holiday. you get paid... an extra bonus. and its kinda significant percent.
aug 27, 2025, 11:01 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, people basically never get their vacation leave paid out in the US. I wish I could leave. Other countries make it *incredibly* hard, though
aug 27, 2025, 11:09 am • 2 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 am • 10 0 • view
I opted for an air fryer.
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 am • 3 0 • view