Nicest Thing Your Boss Has Ever Done For You?

Take me out to super high end steakhouses that I wouldn't personally pay for on my bday and let me run up the bill. Did the same thing when I passed my series exams and CFA lvl 1. Also paid for CFA lvl 1 out of their own pockets b/c the firm didn't pay.

$550ish bonus since I put a two weeks notice and was so good at serving food x)

Two things 1 ) My direct boss took our team out to lunch about 1-3/wk. Pretty incredible considering he doesn't get ALL of it expensed.

2) My car had an engine problem and he drove me to O'reilly's and helped me fix the oil leak.

Overall, very solid guy.

Employment. Then a very nice gift card at Christmas and takes me out to lunch quite a bit.

Still waiting

I've never had a boss push me to the point where I've beaten them to within an inch of death. So I have a clean record. There's that.

Now one or two have gotten me close.

My favorite boss story is when my boss took me to Costco at lunchtime and bought a bottle of Ménage a Trois wine for me to take home to share with my gf

gave me a raise after 7 month

he provided a salary that was just enough to pay for my expenses but had me coming back for more haha

I found a job in San Fran but they fought to keep me and gave me a raise to pay me what I would have made there + low COL in Texas, I stayed at the company (was an intern)

A partner at a regional boutique took me in as an interns for my sophomore summer when I was desperate for an internship. An MD in my current group let me took a half a day off so I could spent the time with my girlfriend before she left for her residency in another city.

Did my work for me while I was on bereavement leave. And gave me extra time beyond the company policy.

In high school I did direct sales (not mlm) and my then boss got me some cigar and scotch sampling packs, and a few months later Laphroaig 12 for graduation, of course saying "now you have to sell X in the new Y weeks so you can afford and try the 18 year old." Good incentives

My boss gave the entire team travel packages at the expense of the company after a successful year, and we had a great rest.

My boss arrived early for a client meeting, where his badge expired. He had to go to the bathroom in the common area but couldn't come back into the office section and had to message me to open the door. That brief moment of me deciding whether I should open the door or not is the nicest level of authority he has ever given me.

Nothing.

Gave me a protected 2 hours once - UBS IB

I went on a fairly big vacation (rare for me) one time and when I got to the hotel room there was a bottle of wine and a card from my boss. Total surprise because I had only mentioned the name of the hotel one time and that was a few weeks before the trip.

3 weeks severance.

When my wife quit her job for a better one her boss said "want me to lay you off so you get severance?" You have to work hard to get loyalty like that.

Nicest thing? My boss approved my 3 day vacation and I was ecstatic. This is so sad thinking about it now...

I gave my Managing Director my 3 weeks notice to move from my first analyst gig to the buyside. My boss, at first, was not happy to see me leave but understood it was a great opportunity for me.

A few days later, the girl who handles our recruiting that I was friendly with showed me an email that she was copied on. The email was from my boss and sent to the the HR director, informing the director of my resignation and need to begin the recruiting process for my replacement. There was a sentence in there that said something like: "He exceeded our expecations and added tremendous value to our team." It was short, but meant a lot to me to hear him speak so highly to others without me copied, it showed - to me at least - that he wasn't just being "polite".

My last day was a friday, and he was participating in one of those industry organization golf outings with a client of ours. It is something they do every year, all the big wigs are there. He told me he would try to finish up early and be back by 4pm to see me off. This was a summer friday and our office usually clears out around that time. I hung around for 20 minutes or so, starting to think he was drunk, forgot, etc, until he finally showed up - full golf attire. We chatted a bit and he said "call me anytime you need anything...we will always have a spot for you here if things dont work out." I felt genuinely appreciated by those words and that he left the "party" to come all the way back to the office (45-mins to an hour) to give me a professional send off.

Hired me?

That's about it the guy isn't very nice.

Just paying for my lunch - I mean they pay me a salary for this very reason, so its always super nice when they go out of their way like that

Took my girlfriend and I to the bahamas for a week

Always bought more than his fair share of drinks for the rest of the team

Gave me a Daniel Wellington watch and a $60 bottle of booze. Made me one highly strung motherfucker...

Wrote me a 2 page recommendation letter that was from the heart and definitely has assisted me in developing my career.

Nicest thing my (former) boss did was fire me. I say this in hindsight, of course.

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When my boss gave me my offer he said, "I think you're smart enough to do this job, but you're not a genius. And if you do think you're a genius we need to have a different conversation".

Getting close to a year later and I haven't decided if its the nicest thing I've been told or the most backhanded compliment.

wedding present and holiday = little bonus for honey moon!!

I was lucky enough to get tapped to help a Sr. Principal launch our 4th closed-end fund (real estate private equity). I researched and wrote the 10 or so pages of the PPM that detailed the Market Opportunity--essentially, the "why you should invest in our fund." This took hundreds of hours of researching, going back and forth with our lawyers and fund administrators, and probably 50+ rewrites. Rewarding, but extremely labor-intensive.

Anyways, as we were nearing the finish line, the out-of-state team from our fund administration firm flew out for a meeting at our office. The morning of, my boss texts me/another analyst and says to bring shorts and casual shoes with us to work. After the morning meeting, he tells us to change and meet him at a dock...where he has his 60 ft. boat (yacht? idk) parked. We took the rest of the day off cruising up and down the SoCal coast drinking margaritas and bullshitting with him and the out-of-town guys. Pretty cool thank-you.