Cool Creator

On the last Friday of each month, our company puts together a luncheon where we talk about office stuff, people's anniversaries and birthdays, show film, and present an award called Cool Creator. So this month, I was awarded as the Cool Creator. It's sort of like the employee of the month. They recognized my work during the 6 months I've been there, gave me a nicely laminated sheet that shows the month and the year, with a statement of my achievement. I thought that it was a very nice gesture and felt really good about being a Cool Creator, and having my work recognized in this form. I realized that having simple incentives like this make for a good and encouraging working environment where people feel recognized for the effort they put in. In the short time that I've been working there, I've also received an unexpected bonus, and a "mother's day" gift certificate to a nice restaurant. All these were totally unimaginable at the old work place. There's also been no figer pointing in the projects that I'm on, and if there were problems, we deal with it collectively. Also totally unimaginable at the old work place....