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Did you get a 'Thank You Card' from your manager over xmas?

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Did you get a 'Thank You Card' from your manager over xmas?

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Thank you cards a hit:A simple thank you goes a long way

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You told us being recognised for a job well done was important to you. Over Christmas, special Christmas-themed thank you cards were launched.

Many managers across the business ordered the seasonal thank you cards to tell their team their hard work was appreciated.

Abdul Rehman, collections hub manager at Cardiff mail centre, gave distribution driver Khalid Idris, pictured above right, a thank you card for his excellent customer service. A local business customer phoned in to praise Khalid’s for his exceptional helpfulness.

Abdul, pictured above left, said: ‘One of our customers contacted me to say that Khalid could not be more helpful in his approach, always providing requested equipment and generally giving an excellent service. This is really positive as we have seen this company grow over the last two years and volumes are increasing.’

Khalid said he was proud to receive the thank you card: ‘It’s great to know you’re doing a good job and that your manager appreciates it. It’s a small gesture, but it goes a long way,’ he said.
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Post by dtyssmshdchrb »

Didn't even get a verbal thank you/team thank you.

Previous managers at our office would always make an effort to give thanks and put out sweeties and order the entire office breakfast rolls from the snack van during xmas' gone by. Not a bean from this one.

It is actually nice to be appreciated and recognised for the hard work we do and at a personal level that just never really happens. :Boo hoo!
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I think it's lost in the post.
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got nothing, no huddles over the festive period until into Jan on the first day we were wanted to lapse
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We got an egg and bacon roll !!
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No, but we did get a buffet laid on paid by our managers on the Wed before xmas, pork pies, sausage rolls, ham sarnies, cheese sarnies and scotch eggs and biscuits sort-of-thing. We were allowed a plateful to take back to the fittings before we went out. And he thanked us all on the tannoy, and shook our hands and wished us merry xmas on xmas eve when we left. Quite impressed to be fair.
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Not a sausage from our resident Hitler, but five in our office gave him the gift of a grievance, the gift that (hopefully) keeps on giving.
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We got a big fat thank you !!, that did warm the cockles of my heart...................sarcasm.
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in answer to the OP no.
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we got more Absorption :crazy:
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we were more lucky, I guess:)....as we got everything : thank you cards and "laid buffet"...and lapsing, of course!...
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troubadour2012en wrote:we were more lucky, I guess:)....as we got everything : thank you cards and "laid buffet"...and lapsing, of course!...
You did lapsing over Xmas?
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We got lapsing Christmas Eve, ho ho ho !!!

I can't remember the rest of December, too long ago :-(
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We had lapsing on Xmas eve as a reminder of where we stand
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We got bacon rolls. Manager went around the day before around asking what the vegetarians would like instead as he felt guilty for forgetting us the past xmas. Veg sausages was the request. Next day it was just bacon rolls produced. Manager had 'forgotten' the vegetarians amongst us AGAIN. Muppet :roll: