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Friday, February 23, 2007

they HAVE to be kidding...

My company recently sold a major asset to it's portfolio, which is why I was required to find a new job (which I have done, and I love, by the way!) The point is... this venture has been a huge investment to the company and they spent the past 5 years working on it and tyring to make it even more profitable.

Usually, when my company sells off a large portion of an asset they reward their employees (all the people that contributed to make the sale happen) with a token of their appreciation and a symbol that they can keep to remember their hard work on such a project. For the past few small sales I was involved with, I was given useless desk ornaments (glorified paperweights, really) but I thought for sure with the magnitude of this sale, my company would pull out the big guns and give us something much more superior... Boy was I was wrong.

They gave us a fake painting, with some really boring pictures (almost like stock photos) and some styalized text regarding the sale (for emphasis, I guess).

Seriously, they made like a million of these prints too, it couldn't have been cheap. Why didn't they just go buy us iPods instead, like we REALLY wanted!

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7 Comments:

Blogger islandarts said...

actually the more of them they had printed, the CHEAPEr it probably was LOL! still a total waste. Wow... takes real brains to think of these things. Even a back pack would have been more useful- you could have sold it on ebay or SOMETHING lOL!!!

10:24 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey you can work for my company and not get any recognition for your hard work like me..It's too bad the companies I've worked for can't recognize the hard workers. No wonder their turn around is so high.

10:51 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yea, Your right - nsome of our so called "Safety Awards " Were not even worth taking home- so now I haven't seen anything for quite a while...maybe some of the workers are having to many "boo-boo's"
go figure
Al xox

12:49 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope they at least spring for a nice xmas party for all you guys !!

12:55 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like they say...that was better than a kick in the pants!

Maybe you can sell it and make some dough!

9:41 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WOW GREED Much?

LOL

10:43 AM

 
Blogger FitGirl said...

I'm not greedy... the gift just gets a big POOP SANDWICH from me for it's usefulness!

8:55 PM

 

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