For all the fun I had and for all the misery I endured , my organization awarded me Employee of the Year out of 7500+ employees.
As many of my managers have observed, this is the first time so many things have happened different from the tradition; they have welcomed technical contributions as apposed to normal $ increase contributions, any employee is eligible to EOY programme only if he was a EOQ (Employee of the quarter - no where written, but thats what happened), and people get nominated usually after 4-5 years of service. I was neither a EOQ and I joined as a fresher in 2005 and I did crap for first 10 months. Considering all this , I consider myself lucky to be recongized. Though for the most part it is my effort, I also realize that it is the broad mindedness of my supervisors/managers. It takes a lot to whole heartedly appreciate people!
Apart from self satisfaction, a nice little trophy to show off, the only thing good about being an EOY is I got a personal ‘Congratulations Harish!’ from my Once_upon_a_time_crush in HR!
-- In life, it’s not who you know that’s important, it’s how your wife found out. _ Joey Adams_