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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Not looking for public recognition. The award, which consists of a certificate and cash, was shared with my supervisor who was expected to share it with me. I was expecting an email with the certificate attached.[/quote]

Then ask about it! Sheesh. She probably was waiting for you to give her confirmation the cash hit your paycheck. Sometimes there's a huge lag. [/quote]

Why would she wait for me to find out about it through my paycheck? What's wrong with a "Hi Larla. Congratulations, you received an award for X. Here's a copy of the certificate. You should expect to see $X in an upcoming paycheck."[/quote]

Are you sure there is an "it"? In my office, the "it" is the form a supervisor fills out to get that payment processed to hit your bank account. It requires about 2-3 sentences of justification. The employee doesn't even see it. But there is an SF-50 issued to reflect you got a performance award. That's your documentation. Yeah, an announcement is nice, but the money is the thing.[/quote]

This.  In my office, there is no "it" - there is an online form that only the supervisor sees, and the end result is the SF-50 and cash or time off.

We used to have a genuinely excellent employee who the boss would just try to recognize regularly, but the employee made it awkward by always wanting to know what specific accomplishment the award was for.  It was usually for something limited and easy to write up, rather than something important or ambitious, because from the boss's perspective the point was the money.  Finally the boss caught on to this employee's "love language" and started verbally recognizing the employee ... but as an unintended side effect the number of cash awards went down.  Bosses only have so much bandwidth.  [/quote]

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