the_eric•1mo agoMost Upvoted

Hit 10 years at my company last month and it hit me hard

I started as a temp making $12 an hour in the mailroom back in 2014. Last month I hit the 10 year mark and got a plaque at a team lunch. What got me was looking at the old team photos on the wall - there's maybe 3 people left from when I started. The whole office layout changed twice, we got bought out by a bigger firm, and I somehow ended up as department lead. Has anyone else watched their whole industry change that fast in a decade?

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the_mila1mo agoTop Commenter

Oh this reminds me of something that happened to my buddy Mark at his old job. He started at a small publishing company back in like 2010, did the whole ride through them getting bought by a huge media group. The old office had this weird orange carpet and everyone had their own cubicle with like family photos and plants everywhere. Then the new owners came in and ripped out everything for an open floor plan with those stupid standing desks nobody asked for. He said the last straw was when they got rid of the coffee machine that had been there since the 90s and replaced it with some fancy pod thing that always broke. That company doesn't even exist anymore under the same name, just a logo on some corporate website somewhere.

williamm821mo ago

Hang onto that plaque, seriously. I went through a similar ride at my last place and keeping those little reminders helps. @the_mila's story about the coffee machine change sounds exactly like what happened to us, they swapped our old drip brewer for some subscription bean grinder that needed an app to work. What really worked for me was keeping a simple work journal, just jotting down big changes or wins as they happened. That way when I hit milestones I could look back and see how much actually shifted instead of just feeling like everything blurred together. The old photo thing gets me too, I have a couple snapshots from my first year and the difference in people and even the building is wild.

cameronf8829d ago

Nah, I gotta disagree - sometimes letting go of that stuff helps you move forward without looking back.