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When you retired what was your final day like?
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<blockquote data-quote="Darmark7" data-source="post: 5238270" data-attributes="member: 83127"><p>Question 1…. About the belittle comment from BC… No people here seem to belittle people after 40 yrs, that seems to be the magic number (I don‘t know why that is) I had 39 yrs 2 months and 1 week. People here has said “those people staying over 40 are weird, I just squeaked out of weirdness I guess. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p> Question 2… I didn’t know what my supervisor did or didn’t know. I did not talk to the supervisors unless they talked to me besides saying “Hello” in passing. I wasn’t sure if word had gotten back to them that I was retiring or not. I was kind of surprised when I got the phone call, but that was the point that I knew he hadn’t heard up until that point.</p><p></p><p> Question 3… I took the call because I would always take any call from supervision (very rarely did that happen). Management didn’t harass me my last years (they had learned by then it didn’t work) so I was really surprised when my phone rang on the way to work. I was low profile not a butt to management.</p><p></p><p> Lastly… I did find it feeling weird the last 5 or 6 yrs. Before that I didn’t think about it I just did my job day to day. I remember feeling like I didn’t belong there but by that time I had to many years invested. I was a high school drop out that took my GED so I was grateful to have a high paying job. I would think of leaving at times but didn’t want to take the financial hit I would take doing something else. like I said I flew under the radar so management didn’t bother me except for the daily crap that they bother everyone with. I was at the company for the money and benefits and really nothing else. That was the only reason I stayed all those years. The last yrs the job kept getting worse and worse until the day I knew I did not want to do this anymore. I woke up one day and all concern about retiring was gone and I knew I could not do this job any longer. That was the feeling (sign) I had been waiting for to know it was time to retire.</p><p></p><p> So I thank UPS for making it possible for a high school dropout to be able to retire at 57 yrs old while my college graduate buddies are still working and telling me how much they envy me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darmark7, post: 5238270, member: 83127"] Question 1…. About the belittle comment from BC… No people here seem to belittle people after 40 yrs, that seems to be the magic number (I don‘t know why that is) I had 39 yrs 2 months and 1 week. People here has said “those people staying over 40 are weird, I just squeaked out of weirdness I guess. 😂 Question 2… I didn’t know what my supervisor did or didn’t know. I did not talk to the supervisors unless they talked to me besides saying “Hello” in passing. I wasn’t sure if word had gotten back to them that I was retiring or not. I was kind of surprised when I got the phone call, but that was the point that I knew he hadn’t heard up until that point. Question 3… I took the call because I would always take any call from supervision (very rarely did that happen). Management didn’t harass me my last years (they had learned by then it didn’t work) so I was really surprised when my phone rang on the way to work. I was low profile not a butt to management. Lastly… I did find it feeling weird the last 5 or 6 yrs. Before that I didn’t think about it I just did my job day to day. I remember feeling like I didn’t belong there but by that time I had to many years invested. I was a high school drop out that took my GED so I was grateful to have a high paying job. I would think of leaving at times but didn’t want to take the financial hit I would take doing something else. like I said I flew under the radar so management didn’t bother me except for the daily crap that they bother everyone with. I was at the company for the money and benefits and really nothing else. That was the only reason I stayed all those years. The last yrs the job kept getting worse and worse until the day I knew I did not want to do this anymore. I woke up one day and all concern about retiring was gone and I knew I could not do this job any longer. That was the feeling (sign) I had been waiting for to know it was time to retire. So I thank UPS for making it possible for a high school dropout to be able to retire at 57 yrs old while my college graduate buddies are still working and telling me how much they envy me. [/QUOTE]
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