I got a musty, glass picture frame clock with a bad photocopy of a Maypole photo for 10 years. At 20, though, they do these cool wooden side tables with school logo on them. Anyone who retires after more than 10 years of service gets a beautiful wooden rocking chair (which we all mock for its agist overtones, but it is pretty).

Something similar with email addresses. They started out with firstinitiallastname@company.com

One of the fathers of Emmett's little league teammate started at PIxar from the get-go, so his email was [First Name]@Pixar.com. Not even a last initial. (He also worked on Nightmare Before Xmas pre-Pixar.)

Timelies all!

It's been an awful day here. Mr. S has been disregulated all day. It doesn't help that he spit out his medicine and we had to give him more. Hopefully he actually swallowed the second attempt.

I am actively applying for jobs that will get me my 10 years so I'm vested in my pension, but are in a very different branch of state government, so shan't be getting any service length awards. I am SUPER salty about the whole situation, like thinking of giving packets of gourmet salt with my contact info on them to the people I actually like as a farewell gift.

My father moved into his office when they opened the building in the mid-90s. His key eventually wore out, and they couldn't find his info, as they'd updated the file system in the interim. They've since moved him to the stupid multi-university health campus downtown (Symbolically very nice. Logistically a nightmare). He's also been there long enough that his email is @university.edu

We can get a rocking chair too! But nursing faculty aren’t on the program because they are not research faculty and technically on reoccurring two year appointments

I just got the 15-year gift catalog thingy. I don’t think ours are as generous as some. But whatev. At 5 years I got a car emergency kit that I still have. At 10 a small handbag.

This is a thing companies do?

(MSFT gave you a random crystal statue thing, each milestone's larger than the last until they literally have to wheel it out for you. I threw mine in the trash. Current job does have bonuses at certain milestones.)

Ooh a rocking chair would be nice! I admit, if an air fryer were an option I might go for it just because I’m not going to buy one for myself but…

Debet good luck with the job searching!

At some point, I think I could get one of those college chairs, but I hope there are better options at that level!

Also, I made the mistake of responding to someone being wrong on the internet, and now I have been accused of being a deranged person who needs mental help.

I am hyper aware of the chair, because my old boss and her husband were long time employees of the hospital and when she moved to be nursing faculty she no was no longer eligible I actually looked to see whether they could purchase it because she was so obsessed with the chair. Readers, she did not get a chair.

Meanwhile, I am now obsessed with the fact that we only have about. 6 PHD faculty who are even considered “real” by the University as a whole, and can in fact get a chair, but more importantly, serve on University committees or vote on anything at a University level. It is similar for the school of education.

But I do love my Instant Pot and would not say no to an air fryer at 25 years@