Intel is the damnedest place

[Jonathan]

I just got a nice engraved wood and aluminum plaque thanking me "For Outstanding Job In Delivering Detailed Simulator (pwn) And Help Solve Critical uarch Tradeoffs During TR"... Q2 2009.

Two year turnaround? Sheesh.

[quantus]

I used to get a plaque per project at my previous company

[Jonathan]

Yeah, they do that here as well (for all thousand people who worked on a project), but also individual plaques to recognize outstanding work, too.

[George]

I received an award once that was so generically phrased I couldn't initially figure out what it was for. The presenter and other recipients didn't know either. I ended up figuring it out because I had only worked with the two other recipients together once. The three of us had stayed late one night over a year before to fix a problem that was threatening a delivery.

Best part, the award was presented as part of the company's "Timely Award Program".