It's that time of year where families usually stress over the holidays, money, etc. While things in my life are better than previous years, it's always on my wife's mind.

I'm sitting at my desk this morning, my manager is out sick so he calls me on the phone.

Manager: "Hey, I wanted to tell you face-to-face and shake your hand but as you can tell, I'm sick but wanted to tell you that you're going to get another Service Excellence Award for <insert project name>".

(Service Excellence Awards have a monetary value)

Me: "Thank you"

Manager: "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeea, this one is a bit different this time".

Me: "How so?"

Manager: "This one is $5000.00."

Me: "Excuse me?"

I started shaking. Seriously. It's flattering and it's greatly appreciated.

I called my wife and told her and she almost started crying.

I'm spending about $800 on my truck. LOL.

Point:

Keep your head up, take care of your customers and the business and they will take care of you.

 

 

 

Congrats!

 

nice, and youre sposed to tell the wife you got $3k and "only" planned on spending $500 of it on the truck

 

Congratulations! Good to see you are rewarded for hard work

 

congrats..... we had a similar situation a couple weeks ago....our daycare shutdown and the new one we found was about 400 dollars more a month we were trying to figure out how to pay for it.... i was going to have to quit and stay home..... wife got an 8k a year raise, 4 days later i got 10k to stay working there, wife on the next monday got a promotion with 11k. sometimes things just work out.

 

The man up above always seems to take care of us. Good to hear.

Damn though, i wonder how much you pay in day care to have to quit your job though.

 

its 2k a month but with that and gas to and from work and child support it just wasnt worth it

 

Congrats man! I can help you spend that $800