So what do you get

[derek kelly]

When you reach 25 years service in your job? a landmark that I have reached today, and when they get round to it which will probably be sometime next year I can expect to receive a flimsy silver tie pin that will break upon touch. apparently 25 years service isn't even worthy of a mention in our weekly bulletin, however our new moral boosting initiative....Wait for it.....Employee of the month, gets a mention and the winner receives a cheque or vouchers for ?100, worth considerably more than the award for 25 years service.
it wavers slightly different to the ?500 & crystal decanter (filled with his favourite Brandy) and matching glasses, that my eldest brother received on reaching 25 years teaching at Leeds University.
or the ?1500 travel voucher, that another brother received after 25 years working for an insurance company.

 

[Samster]

Hand them your resignation, that always gets and employer to appreciate you and your worth to the Company!

 

[gypsy]

you've had your wages for 25 years and you still want to bleed the taxpayer for more ?

 

[Barrie]

Appreciation for doing a tough and sometimes dangerous job wouldn't go amiss.

 

[derek kelly]

Samster
I've got 7 years to retirement at 55 and I am looking forward to it more each day.

Pikey man8um
If the wages had been decent I wouldn't have to work overtime, but like with everything else involving the Government they are full of empty promises, and as a result our Wages over the past 18 years are 34% below what they should be, which also means our pensions are affected accordingly, this isn't a made up figure it is what was worked out by the independant pay review body which the Government promised to take notice of,and have failed yet again.

I suppose I could always try to sell the tie pin on Ebay, there must be some prison memorabillia enthusiasts out there.

 

[Fat Bert]

What do you get~~~?

Normally the sack cos they don't want old duffers like you

Time for the pipe and slippers

 

[derek kelly]

Normally the sack cos they don't want old duffers like you

Time for the pipe and slippers

Bert

You probably don't realise how close to the truth you are, a prerequisite of the job used to be some form of forces background, now anyone leaving the forces wanting to join the Prison service, forget it, they are wanting social workers, psychologists etc, people who will call prisoners Mr, or by their first names, and while you all may laugh and joke about the way the prison service is going let us not forget why these people are in prison, and one day some of them are going to get out after years of being molly coddled, and they are going to realise that life in prison was better for them than life out of prison, and so the shit will really hit the fan. believe me when I speak as someone who has witnessed at first hand the decline of the prison system, be afraid, be very afraid

 

[D.S.]

25 Years in the same job :dunno:
Sounds like a fookin sentence to me!

 

[derek kelly]

25 Years in the same job :dunno:
Sounds like a fookin sentence to me!

Last few years certainly have been :}

 

[derek kelly]

Gifts should be one ANORAK and a LACK OF AMBITION AWARD. :k

Can't have Anoraks as I've got anoraknophobia

but I qualify for the second one. :}

 

[chuffmeister]

Hat already on, so is the coat and the engines running before I start but..........


after 22 years,

at the rip old age of 40,

i will be leaving with a nice lump sum and a top pension from my 40th B'day onwards ( only 6.5 years to go ) unless i take redundancy of course :blush:

only good think aboiut HM Forces these days


sorry but you did ask

:beer:

 

[Wolfie]

I will probs get a new biro

 

[Fat Bert]

Wilf~~~

I will probs get a new biro

and that will remain unused for years to come!

 

[Supabird1100]

After 25 years service I got a cheque for ?250 and a certificate that had been photocopied.....no frame.....it was presented to me in a brown 'internal post only' envelope.

Like yourself DK....it's a government job !!!!! :h

 

[Wolfie]

and that will remain unused for years to come!

of course it will i use a computer at work yer twat!!!!

 

[Fat Bert]

Hmmmm

of course it will i use a computer at work yer twat!!!!

and I suppose you use a 17" monitor to clean your ears out then eh?

Pens are for writing cheques with - Cyclops has got loads of unused ones!!

 

[Wolfie]

dont do chqs


we have credit cards now down here in the south!!

got 19" and a 17" to be correct.

 

[Duck n Dive]

dont do chqs


we have credit cards now down here in the south!!

got 19" and a 17" to be correct.

Bleeding heck those is large credit cards - nothing like the small ones we have up North that fit into wallets then........:neenaw:

 

[trophychap]

Bert

People who run small businesses are the only people who use cheques these days (eg Pete The Print, or Bert the Curt) (that's an R, I hasten to stress!)

Anyone working for a medium to large firm has a company plastic card and individual employees like moi just chip and pin. The firms themselves pay by bank transfer or plastic.

I needed to write a cheque a couple of weeks ago and when I (eventually) found my cheque book, the last one I wrote was March 2004!!!!!

In any event, FWIW Derek, I know what you mean - a simple 'Thank You Derek' would have been nice, wouldn't it?

Nihil Carborundum Illigitimae.

Jen

 

[Stealth Rider]

:loo: A gold plated toilet brush and a bottle of bleach for 25 yrs service to the public,think yourself lucky I say