Did you ever get shown appreciation by your boss ?

We have reward programs, plus a yearly bonus, depending on how the company performed. I won’t tell you what or how much I received, but my supervisor received a check last year well above 6 figures.
 
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We have reward programs, plus a yearly bonus, depending on how the company performed. I won’t tell you what or how much I received, but my supervisor received a check last year well above 6 figures.
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Not a polo mint or an empty plastic bag then ..as per the examples in the link ? :eek:
 

Over decades here in Silicon Valley, direct appreciation from managers beyond non-verbals was generally inhibited by Human Resource policy and instead reserved for annual performance reviews. Part of that was likely because it reduced pay raise expectations bean counters had interest in. Less so in start ups I worked at and more so in the large corporations. In any case, most highly regarded employees don't need direct praising feedback to understand how others view them because they self understand their own performance and that is reflected in rolls, tasks, pay, and employment position upgrades they are given.

In later decades, HR policies, generally greatly restricted communication between managers and other companies a person was fishing to move to obviously for self interest but also because of potential lawsuits. Because of such, during my career, I accumulated paper copies of performance reviews and awards that I used at job interviews as clear proof of my skill and performances.
 
Yes, I did. I enjoyed being an executive assistant (ahh, for the days when we used to just be called exec secty, LOL) to what is known as C-level execs, at various companies - mostly financial or tech. C-level are owners, partners, CEO, CFO, COO, etc. I met a few jerks but also many intelligent and interesting people.

You get feedback fast in my position. I was appreciated and rewarded in a number of ways that didn't involve being taxed on it - French bordeaux, 30-yr old Port, all the tech toys I wanted, long lunches. I had stressful periods but overall, a lot of fun and made some really good friends whom I still have to this day.

Learned a lot, made decent money - not great, but I refused the mgmt route, tried it but didn't enjoy it - and LOVED going to work every day. That was worth a lot more than $$$$, frankly!
 
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My last boss was also a person that like me always carried a knife with him everywhere, he gave some of us as acts of thanks that he knew well a knife for a job well done, I still have 4-5 of them not cheap junk but decent quality tools. I was the one given jobs others did not wish to be involved with and do, many just never mentioned again ever then a new knife appeared. The kind of jobs that were done and never discussed again. Some slightly iffy. It always started with well Wayne how busy are you now then a ride to lunch to privately discuss the work and can you make that happen.
 
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Yes I did, but I also worked my ass off, I always tried to make myself valuable. Frankly I never needed hugs or verbal recognition, I wanted money. So my approach was straight forward, I would make the company as much money as I could but the company better keep increasing my compensation package.

Once I became an owner I tried to treat employees to the same appreciation when they deserved it.
 
In my many earliest jobs, as I remember, nothing much other than being paid. In later jobs, sometimes yes (appreciation expressed). There was a guy who imported vanilla and I worked for him as a bottler; we became real friends. As a freelance writer (mainly magazines & newspapers) for many years, I worked with so many editors and from such a geographical distance that it was generally pretty impersonal. Occasionally someone would praise.

After that my "boss" for seven years was the a business-association committee, and appreciation was often expressed. Then after, I worked for a short spell (about five months, I believe) as a planner for a local arts center, and my boss did express genuine personal appreciation. I then went back to writing in terms of two aspects: writing the occasional article for publication, and providing editing & feedback to writers who wanted to prepare things for publication — appreciated. Very occasionally, I still do some of that work.
 
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During the pandemic our company sent us all little presents of hand sanitizer, gloves, and a mask. It was bizarre but useful stuff and they were trying.
 
Being a civil service government employee, promotions and raises were out of my supervisor's hands. However, when I worked in the toxicology lab, the supervisor would throw a holiday party for the lab workers at his home hear Christmas, even though he was Jewish. He also put the technicians names on any research papers published. Many Ph.D.s wouldn't do that. They said giving a lab technician credit on a research paper was like giving the spectrophotometer an acknowledgement.
 
Yes. Usually with a raise and a promotion, but at least a raise.

I worked for a small business that gave small raises but also you'd occasionally get these forms the boss called Asset Reports. He filled out this lined section listing all the ways you were an asset to his business. They seemed kind of silly to me at the time, but when I moved on to another job, I credit those reports for getting me hired well above entry level, ergo, much better pay than I expected.

I got 6 Asset Reports in the 2yrs I worked for that guy. He didn't hand them out like candy; they were earned.
 
LOL! I love this post @hollydolly!

For starters we're a not for profit hospital. They do donate quite a bit of their earnings to different things. We just got a cost of living raise and will be getting our normal merit increase along with it.

Since they don't have a bunch of money to give they tend to try to do things to boost morale or at least attempt to make it look like they care and appreciate us.

I do have to say the places with the empty bag and the sliver of pizza are the cheapest people I've ever seen. :ROFLMAO:

The dept I'm in has a monthly snack of a giant box of muffins for all of us. Everybody gets one muffin. Sometimes it's a box of some good sized cookies.

We do occasionally get a pizza party if we've been working hard and the boss wants to acknowledge it and let us know of her appreciation.

I was given a free meal my very first week for my jumping in with both feet and grabbing the bull by the horns attitude. (Her words 😁)

I do know she is kinder to me and more patient with me than some of the others because I don't cause her as much grief as the others do. LOL!

Many people wrinkle their noses at those things. But where I came from we didn't get all this. So for me this is a treat. Would six figures for cleaning toilets be nice? Uh yeah. But it's not practical. ☺️
 
Most of my bosses showed appreciation, which helped ease my working my a$$ off for them.

The corporations, though......I worked for years for a large hospital system. One year, we got a $5 certificate for a food company whose cheapest item was $12. Another year, it was ONE ticket for a specific day in April to a waterpark. One ticket. Weather is iffy here in April....could be blistering hot, could be cool.
 

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