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by softsound 1104 days ago
I would be surprised if a company knew that much about my personal life too, worked at at least 20 places can't think of more then one that knew my birthday/did anything for that and would have been surprised if they did anything for the surgeries I've behaving lately. Best I can hope for is being able to get time off lol. I recently worked somewhere that offered unpaid unlimited time off but then they thought people took too much time off and back stepped that policy within a month of me joining lol. Boy were people fighting over it since they changed the contract for everyone.

I too fall under millennial on the younger side.

I think if you work for a very tiny company that will really badly miss you, then you have a higher chance of them recognizing you but also have a higher chance of them replacing you quickly too. Anything else, you are generally a clog in a machine.
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willcipriano 1104 days ago
You know how businesses do things to limit the risk a single employee becomes indispensable? I do the same with employers and that includes becoming to attached to the people I work with.
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LeifCarrotson 1104 days ago
A clog in the machine? Like when an eggcorn gets jammed in the cogwheels and gears, I suppose...

I've worked at 3 small shops over the past 15 years (wow, 20 as a "young millenial"? You're busy!), and I'm on the older side of millenial...yes, cards get passed around, but no, flowers don't typically get sent out. There's a couple people who make sure that wedding anniversaries, employment anniversaries, birthdays etc. get mentioned at company meetings, most of us engineers shrivel under the spotlight. I have noticed that many of my coworkers glow when they get a compliment - "Take the time off, you deserve it after that hard work on the Acme Inc project", "Your services were rock solid and needed no maintenance while you were out for surgery", etc. but flowers? Cards? Don't care.

We DO make sure to send flowers and cards to the boomer-generation receptionists who pass the cards. I don't think the rest of us would care if the birthday cards stopped going around, but it's clearly of critical importance to those ladies.

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