[Closed] 20yrs of service with my employer....UPDATE

Apparently after five years with my employer I get a pen - after ten I get some whisky glasses, and after 20 years a decanter (why anyone would want any of these as a long service gift I can't imagine). What I don't get is time to run a business on the side like most firemen I know. Oh, I don't get a pension either. Nice medal - thanks, and well done.

A flaming in the first post.

bravo.

Bruneep as a member of the public I'd like to say thank you to you.

I'd also like to buy you a drink when we meet in the future. 🙂

What, you [i]still[/i] complaining ?

Last time you weren't happy because of the diminutive nature of your award, but now you've got a proper medal you're still not happy ! What do you expect - an invitation to Buckingham Palace ?

Just pin it on your uniform, wear it, and stop wingeing, ffs.

At least they are getting bigger

cant see where I'm [i]complaining[/i] on the post.

just letting you all know where your taxes are going.

It's got the queen on it, I'd get the ball peen hammer on it and fashion it in to something more useful, maybe an eggcup?

cant see where I'm complaining on the post.

That's why I put a question mark. The "flame away again" comment by you made me think that perhaps you weren't happy.

I'm glad you are happy.

Why did you expect to be criticised ?

What did you get awarded by your second job? 😀

i dont get anything as a reward for my services, and i dont get time to run a business on the side, and i dont get a pension. but i'm jolly happy that the fire service people get some recognition 😀

good work sir! remember there are people out there who genuinely appreciate the emergency services, shame they're not the vocal ones 🙄

I think that's a very nice medal. Course, if you'd tried harder, you would have got the GREAT Conduct Medal and not just the good conduct one.

Naah, just kidding. Congratulations. Great work. I'd never be able to do your job.

Let someone let off steam about their job. FFS hes doing a sterling job in the first place for two decades. I don't get STW sometimes, never happy with someone elses good work.

Let him blow off and ****ing thank him for his work so far on our behalf.

chance of getting burned to death on any shout, bricks thrown at you by yobs whilst trying to put out the fire thay have started, you deserve more than a medal!

i hope raindog is never stuck in a burning building and needs rescuing

I guess I shouldn't complain:

After 10 years of service: £700
After 15 years of service: £700
After 20 years of service: £1000
After 25 years of service: £2500 with certificate, gift and flowers
After 30 years of service: £700
After 35 years of service: £700
After 40 years of service: £1500 with certificate and flowers
After 45 years of service: £1500 with certificate and flowers
After 50 years of service: £1500 with certificate and flowers

Number of years of service and additional holiday days
25 3 days
40 1 days
45 1 days
50 1 days

25 years gift is normally worth about £1000 (gold watch, travel vouchers etc)

Do they do an AWESOME conduct medal ?? That I want to see.

(and leave the Fireman guy alone people, how many of you would want to haul dead teenagers out of crashed cars on a dark and rainy saturday night ? Nothing but respect from me)

Fire fighters do a potentially dangerous job for sure. Its on par with the police.

My gratitude and respect is more so with the nurses who face potential dangers on a more daily basis and do a harder job inbetween.

A medal though? Bit of a pet rock though i think.

Difficult to get an idea of scale, but does that Good Conduct Medal double up as one of those tokens that you can use as a deposit in a supermarket trolly instead of a pound coin? Very useful.

Make that two drinks. As Binners will tell you getting one out of me is like bleeding blood from a stone.

What do you want - a medal? You got one. It is how your employers recognise 20 years service. What would you prefer? I bet the taxi company you work for in your spare time won't be so generous.

Ignore me, I'm going off topic.

I'm going off topic.

i've watched ladder49 and i can safely say its a dangerous job. although i was frustrated nobody rescued a cat from a tree.

Bruneep as a member of the public I'd like to say thank you to you.

I'd also like to buy you a drink when we meet in the future.

+1

consider my cap well and truely doffed

LOL at this and the other thread. Good stuff bruneep.

The ambulance service is way ahead of you in that you also get a dinner and as pointed out ^^, nursing is where the adrenaline fix is these days. Bit too late to change career I suppose 😉

Only ten more years till you have full contributions in your final salary pension scheme, some of us have to work for forty years not thirty.

What I don't get is time to run a business on the side like most firemen I know. Oh, I don't get a pension either.

Only ten more years till you have full contributions in your final salary pension scheme, some of us have to work for forty years not thirty

Maybe you two should have joined the Fire Brigade then, eh?

Sorry I'm not sure why a nurse has a more dangerous job than a Policeman or Fireman?

depends what type of nurse and what kinda patients you work with 😈

but even as a nurse i think firemen and paramedics and police and stuff are put in very dangerous situations on a much more frequent basis!

Maybe you two should have joined the Fire Brigade then, eh?

to mark 5 years' service in my last job, i got made redundant...

I have to be trained as a Firefighter as part of my role and get something like £170 a year for the pleasure.

f all for any number of years here!

Only ten more years till you have full contributions in your final salary pension scheme, some of us have to work for forty years not thirty.

Only ten more years till you have full contributions in your final salary pension scheme, some of us have to work for forty years not thirty.

pish! more like 4yrs til we get this [url= http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/hutton_final_100311.pdf ]Hutton report 2011[/url]

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My father was awarded the Imperial Service Medal, [b]ISM[/b], for his lifetime of work for the Royal Dockyards.

It was colloquially known as the "[b]I[/b]n [b]S[/b]aturday [b]M[/b]ornings"

Apparently after five years with my employer I get a pen - after ten I get some whisky glasses, and after 20 years a decanter (why anyone would want any of these as a long service gift I can't imagine). What I don't get is time to run a business on the side like most firemen I know. Oh, I don't get a pension either. Nice medal - thanks, and well done.

Go on then, tell me why this is a "flaming" and why I deserve to die in a flaming building ? I've stated nothing that isn't absolutely factual, [i]and [/i]I said thanks and well done. My conclusion, Bruneep, is that you have a huge chip on your shoulder.

nurse get thumped fairly often - but very rarely killed. However most of the thumps are from little old ladies with dementia who get a bit stroppy. One kicked my shins once. Stung a bit.

Interesting Raindog.

If your employer has all these service awards you speak of, it is presumably a well established 'old' business. Why no Company pension, or is that your choice?

Only ten more years till you have full contributions in your final salary pension scheme, some of us have to work for forty years not thirty.

Whenever I see something like this, I can't help humming "we hate it when our friends become successful" by Morrisey.

You know what Woody, you're right, and I stand corrected. What I should have said was I have no guaranteed pension, and was not bright / lucky enough to commit to a career that would allow me to retire after 30 years of service. I wish I had. I do, do course, have a Company pension, to which I contribute 5% and my employer adds another 8%. I think I'm correct in saying that fire service employees contribute 11% for their final salary scheme. Again, I wasn't having a pop at the OP as such, just pointing out that actually there are many of us who wish we were in a similar position.

Well done sir,
Tip of the hat!
We don't even get a pat on the back for 20 years service at our place...

Problem is Raindog, that the demands of the job largely relate to the pensionable age. Police, fire and my lot (ambulance) have at times, highly physically demanding requirements and the anticipated age to 'go out to grass' has to take that into account, bearing in mind that not everyone can, or wants, to rise to the dizzy heights of a desk job during their career.

I for one do not relish the thought of having to lift a 25 stone [s]munter[/s] patient down several flights of stairs at 65, never mind 67 or 68. The cumulative effect of constant lifting, often in awkward situations, takes it's toll and a very high percentage of my colleagues have back and other injuries which means they will be lucky to reach that age before being being forced to take early retirement, or even sacked.

It's not all rosy 😉

Well done Sir...Twenty years is good going and you do a fine job.
My jobs crap and my employer of the last 20 years is a git! (I've been self employed all that time 😉 )

Woody makes a good point, how many 60+ year olds will be physically able to do the work of a fire fighter, paramedic or police officer...actually any job that involves a fair degree of physical work?
For people in these careers who have moved on from front line work and are sat at a desk then its not so much of an issue but how effective (really) is a 65 year old fire fighter going to be?....or a 65 year old beat bobby?....almost comical isnt it when you think about it?

Got no probs with people in these jobs being pensioned of earlier than most.

Woody, what's your point ? All I said in my first post was "these are the benefits I get at 5, 10 & 20 years", and contrasted our different pension schemes. I then congratulated and thanked him. In my last post I made this clear, explaining that I was merely illustrating the position I am in vs the position the Op is in. I also explained that I would, given my time again, like to be in the position he is. At no point have I said that his job is easy, or that he should be entitled to anything less that that which he hopefully enjoy in terms of benefits. For what it's worth if I am off sick more than twice in any rolling twelve month period I will get a final written warning, if I'm off four times I will almost certainly be sacked. This rule would, I'm told, apply even if I were 65 and suffering from a debilitating or terminal condition.

bruneep, I'm no good at the fancy words so all I can say is Thank you to you and your colleagues!

After 25 years service I may actually get the carrot that is constantly dangled in front of me.

Why can't you all stop the whole "all I get/got" "me me me" little world you live in and give congratulate this guy. I'm sure in twenty years he will have shown more bravery than the rest of us put together.

Woody, what's your point ?

Apparently after five years with my employer I get a pen - after ten I get some whisky glasses, and after 20 years a decanter (why anyone would want any of these as a long service gift I can't imagine). What I don't get is time to run a business on the side like most firemen I know.

A snide dig, tends to put a different perspective on any following 'thanks'.

You've made your point clear now, so that's all hunky dory 😉

Congrats!

I got my long service medal almost 2 years ago now so nearly due the additional one. I was well chuffed, not sure where it is so no pic.

We had a guy refused his medal as they said that him throwing a rubber chicken at the firemaster during a fire board meeting re. a station closure didn't equate to 'good conduct' 😀

I'd think that after 20 years as a fireman you'd get quite good at avoiding and dealing with flames?

For 10 years service in my last job I got laid off, which actually was pretty much ideal, shame it took so long really 😉

Oh, sorry, I nearly forgot!
Your job's better than my job! Think yourself lucky you double jobbing, free pension getting slacker!

That's what we do here isn't it? I'm harder done to than you!

My last job gave a long service award after 5 years! It was a weekend break to my european city of choice!
I think that might show how shit the job was - I was the only one to qualify that year.... from 900 employees 😯

Then I was 'removed' 😆