Award Programs
The new award programs were announced at my job. There are three levels.
The first is (let's name it Olympic style) bronze. We've had this level for a while. Anyone can reward anyone else for something good they did, giving them a gift certificate-the kind that you can use in a lot of different places. It's not big dollars but it's a really nice thing to do. I've given one out to a tester that helped me and all the other testers to do a better job on a project.
The next level is silver. You get nominated for this, your accomplishment getting reviewed at a fairly high level in our technology organization. The reward is big, we're talking thousands of dollars. The idea is that a lot of these will be given away, not one. Sure cash gets taxed but it's still enough money to pay off some bills or take a short trip.
I don't know how many gold awards they will give away but it's major dollars. This probably has to go to the VP level but it's enough for a real vacation.
We still have the recognition cards that you give to someone when they help you out. There's no money right away but every six months there's a drawing for a gift certificate from the pool of people that gave cards and one from the card recipients.
Also, every six months a number of people are recognized at the tech organization meeting. Anyone can send a nomination to an employee committee that reviews the nominations and chooses six or seven winners. There's usually a project team or two that wins.
Of course there are Happy Hours for software releases--if you can get the software released. I have one project that's had release delayed four times (for quality reasons) and we've about given up on that party. But I've got a release on Saturday!!! Party (I hope)!!!
The first is (let's name it Olympic style) bronze. We've had this level for a while. Anyone can reward anyone else for something good they did, giving them a gift certificate-the kind that you can use in a lot of different places. It's not big dollars but it's a really nice thing to do. I've given one out to a tester that helped me and all the other testers to do a better job on a project.
The next level is silver. You get nominated for this, your accomplishment getting reviewed at a fairly high level in our technology organization. The reward is big, we're talking thousands of dollars. The idea is that a lot of these will be given away, not one. Sure cash gets taxed but it's still enough money to pay off some bills or take a short trip.
I don't know how many gold awards they will give away but it's major dollars. This probably has to go to the VP level but it's enough for a real vacation.
We still have the recognition cards that you give to someone when they help you out. There's no money right away but every six months there's a drawing for a gift certificate from the pool of people that gave cards and one from the card recipients.
Also, every six months a number of people are recognized at the tech organization meeting. Anyone can send a nomination to an employee committee that reviews the nominations and chooses six or seven winners. There's usually a project team or two that wins.
Of course there are Happy Hours for software releases--if you can get the software released. I have one project that's had release delayed four times (for quality reasons) and we've about given up on that party. But I've got a release on Saturday!!! Party (I hope)!!!
posted by changingagain at 8:41 PM
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