I know that I probably shouldn't care but after committing myself to my company and working my ass off for 10 years for my bosses. I feel insulted that they just forgot about my 10 year work anniversary.
It wasn't until the next day did I actually say something through our internal online messenger and had one boss reply with “Thanks for your commitment and being a part of the team. We appreciate all that you've done.” Which I appreciated but all my family and friends seem baffled not only at the fact that my bosses actually forgot but that I didn't get any kind of reward for all my years of service.
My brother in law got a gold watch for his 10 year anniversary, my sister got a paid vacation, my mom got a 3 month paid sabbatical, my mother in law got a huge bonus and a few days off, a friend got a free trip to Italy, another friend got a small raise and 10 more vacation days a years, and my neighbor got gifted one of their companies cars. So unless such anecdotals are very skewed then I got screwed.
It isn't my intention to sound entitled and maybe I'm expecting too much but I just feel like the bosses praise are just empty words. I mean, this isn't my birthday or something small. It's 10 years of my life and I've put in way too much overtime at my work to just have my 10 year anniversary forgotten about.