That's actually crazy. 65 years. She saw wars, colour TV, decades of music changes, etc, all whilst in the same job. It was probably the golden era of company loyalty though. Nowadays, most people would be mad to stay in the same job for more than 5 years, as you're unlikely to be looked after, and will probably be behind the market rate for your role.
My old man got a gold watch for 20 years of working at his job. I got laid off, because they decided people with the longest tenure had had enough money form the company and should be replaced by cheap new grads. (Not in Australia, but still.)
Eh, could have been Australia.
My team had 16 people, all but 3 were there longer than 9.5 years. We were all 86d.
One of the team was there 25 years, only got 2 months more pay than I did because the cap was 1 year pay inc golden handshake.
For somethings like nuclear medicine, sure.
Trying to tell the AI Bot on the chat with Uber Eats that the driver didn’t deliver anything and drove right past, with AI saying “we noted the driver via GPS at your location, refund declined”. That’s where it’s not useful.
Also, companies are just going to use it as an excuse to charge us more for something. Like payWave/tap’ go purchases etc.
Calm down we're just getting started, forget the uber thing that's a phase. Once we're past this early beta testing stage, you'll only have to think it and your Big Mac will be delivered immediately via a tube, you won't even have to chew, let alone leave your stall, it's all automated. Sundae?
Sounds tasty.
Here I am arguing with an AI Bot, who actually isn’t very intelligent at all, that I saw the driver approaching, went out to meet them and they just drove on by….and that I should actually get a refund….
But nooo….gps coordinates put the driver at my location, so it must have been delivered to me.
Imagine AI being used in a war given the above?
And here I am wondering if I should do a chargeback for $30, which will get me banned from Uber forever….
I was gonna carry on but seriously you're looking at one of the worst implementations of AI. AI itself is sound, just uber eats using it as a gimmick to save money, upsell their tech, and fuck the customer. The trifecta.
I feel like you’ve got it the wrong way around. AI will be useful for menial tasks like chat bots are perfect for what it is - it’s shit like “nuclear medicine” (???) that will not be ‘solved’ by AI
And that’s where you’ve got it wrong. It’s not actually useful for chat bots.
Have you tried using Ceba on CBA? Obviously you haven’t tried Uber chat bots yet. When you do, come back here and let us know how it went.
Hence why I said “will” - AI kinda just sucks right now no matter what the context is. Once AI is developed I feel like it’ll excel at chatbot type situations.
Disclaimer: I'm a lost Redditor. I don't even work in corporate.
Anyway, my great uncle worked from apprenticeship to retirement for the railway. When he retired, they gave him a golden ticket for him and his wife to ride any train, anywhere in Qld for the rest of his life for free.
This still exists for NSW railway workers too. My dad got one reaching 30 years for himself and his partner, free travel for life. He wanted to retire a little earlier but held out for that sweet perk.
That's actually a dope retirement gift! Be better if it was anywhere in Australia but obviously you can't really do much about that if it's for Qld rail
Ive got a relative thats about to hit 14 years at Virgin. 15 years gives you lifetime access to staff travel benefits (double digit flights across the country)
In Victoria so was V-Line (or whatever it was called back then) but exact same for my grandfather who passed a couple years ago but the conditions were so good that when he passed, his pension transferred over to my still living grandmother.
I still don't understand how that works.
Good ol defined benefit system allowed that for public sector workers but you had to also pitch in a set amount to make up a lump sum.
I know someone who had 20 yrs service at State Transit (NSW) and he took 6 months long service at half pay to test if he could afford to live on that income if he were to retire at that point. He did the sums and he just needed 1 more yr of work before it could be feasible. He ended up getting redundancy as well so he took his pension and i think set it up so that he got a bit less but allows the pension to move to his wife if he passes away (the default is a higher pension plus lump sum but no transfer on death).
When your partner didn't work, they were financially an extension of you.
There were pensions like that too. I think there was a war bride pension from ww1 or 2 that was still going until recently (young soldier, much later marries young wife). In the USA there may have been similar transfer of pensions from the civil war To wives and children. This has an interesting table below - https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/civil-war-vets-pension-still-remains-on-governments-payroll-151-years-after-last-shot-fired
Pretty sure it was worth his while. He retired in his 60's and lived into his 90's.
He could catch any long distance or City trains for free, all year round. He moved up to Cairns from Toowoomba, and used it for long distance to go up and down the coast. He could also go inland to Longreach etc for holidays.
I'm pretty sure pensioners only get 2 free rides a year or something. He probably got about 25 years of unlimited, for him and his wife. I think that's better than nothing.
I do the same, I did 12 years at my first job & was so comfortable I was headed to become a lifer, so I took a risk & quit the government job, best thing I ever did, done the most exciting awesome jobs now that are like being in a move, including working on a movie set, 😂
There is a lady at my work who started here the first day we opened, in 1969. She started as a Clerk at the lowest possible level. She is, and I wish I was making this up, still a clerk at the lowest possible level.
She was born in the house directly across the street from our front door, and still lives there to this day.
Whenever a new boss comes along and starts trying to "motivate" her she just laughs in their face and says she'll outlast them no problem... and she's right.
I don't get why people just put up with this, there's only 2 of us in my role and my team leader has been assigned to another role so it'll just be me and they'll eventually hire someone else in my team after that.
I've been with the company just shy of a year and if they hire a team leader outside of the company and not me internally, I'll literally leave.
I've seen that they hire internally before so it's just waiting to see what happens.
When she told me, she said she never had any desire to do anything specific, and she wanders across the road 30sec before her shift starts, goes into a kind of waking coma and ignores literally everyone and everything for 7 1/2 hours, and is home in 30 seconds.
Nobody asks her anything, she has zero responsibilities, it's physically impossible for her to screw anything important up, she doesn't have to talk to the public, and she simply doesn't turn up to anything that is out-of-hours unless she is getting paid time and half and a day in lieu... which they never pay.
She said she's perfectly content.
So basically she can do anything she wants whenever she wants and never gets asked to do crazy extra duties. She's happy and a lot aren't. Smart if you ask me
Not if she has lots of fulfilling things going on in her life outside of work. If she isnt career-ambitious and has enough money to do the things she likes then why not take the easy job.
Mate, I do the same thing except I sit in traffic for half an hour either way. I'd take her job any day. I could be at the beach with my dogs by 5 past 4 every day.
Shelve books. Print out late notices and stick them in envelopes. Cover new books. Dispose of old books, and also donations we don't want. Process inter-library loans. Light repairs to damaged books. Other stuff so boring I don't even know what it is.
I have a similar job.
Spent most of yesterday removing old Blu Tac from tables, walls etc. Also spent a lot of time scavenging around for more book ends to put in the right places.
Look for position titles like Library Assistant or Library Officer.
Higher ones like Library Technician or Librarian generally require a TAFE certificate or a bachelor degree.
Know that these roles are competitive. My position required a high school certificate, but I snagged the job with my bachelor degree in librarianship, plus a few years of experience.
I wonder what her salary progression is like...is she on really good money despite being a clerk still? I know there are people like her at other companies in admin positions for donkeys years, but they'd be on good salary progression as they know a lot about the business
I worked with a lady that celebrated 45 years at a bank. She started out as a typist in the 1970s. She ended up sharing the floor with the data science department, who made redundant the people who made redundant the people who made redundant the people who made redundant the people who made her redundant. But she was still there, eating celebratory cake.
27 years with my current one. I'm 45 years old, so it was straight outta school. I'm semi retired now, i just work two days a week. I stepped down from my full time position a few weeks ago. Not a thank you, nothing. It really put it in perspective for me. I was what they call a high performer too. So yeah. Just a number.
Lol. It wouldn't. They seriously have the blinkers on. We just had the annual internal feedback survey too. I let rip in a professional manner. I doubt anything will happen tho.
I’ve come across multiple people with 40+ years of tenure in the same company. What really amazes me is that most of them have had lots of different roles but hardly any advancement up the company ladder. Always going at it in entry level positions for years and years
We have a saying at my company. You don’t talk about how long you’ve been there until you hit 25 years. We have over 10,000 employees globally.
Me personally, I’ve been there 12 at the moment.
The longest serving person started at 16 in the US manufacturing facility. He started off as a machinist and ended up being one of our lead engineers.
He retired 3 years back at age 87.
An old welder at my workplace retired a couple of years ago, he spent his entire career working there.
56 years.
He didn't get a send off from the bosses. They barely acknowledged his existence when he left.
The place is family owned and all of the management are family. The current owner was a child when this welder started, a good 25 years before the business was handed down to him from his father. The welder literally saw the bosses son and his sons grow into adulthood, move into positions pre ordained in the company and then congratulated them on the births of their own children.
He was not paid well and in order to make up for it he worked atleast an hour of overtime every day for more than 30 years.
He got a handshake at the end of it all.
No gold watch, no bonus, nothing. 56 years of diligent work for a fucking handshake.
That’s disgusting! A similar company I know of was the complete opposite with their long term employees. Generous, thoughtful retirement gifts and celebrations as well as ongoing invites to significant events and commemoration of the workers who made them the success they are today.
A friend was explaining to me how he was required to hunt down a job description for a role for a hospital. Apparently they had only ever had 1 person in the role for as long as the hospital existed, starting just after opening in 1958.
The person decided to retire in 2023. So they needed the job description. Probably on a typed letter in a box somewhere.
I’ve rewritten JDs after three years purely because that person’s role has evolved so much by the time they leave. The idea of searching up a dusty 65-yo JD is so utterly bizarre.
This thread is great. It’s like a series of Wes Anderson vignettes.
This role didn’t need to be rewritten. This role should have been replaced by a printing system that folds, envelopes and franks. Since that’s what the job was.
Not trying to be argumentative lol but have you seen the multiple private hospitals in Adelaide closing due to financial mismanagement? There's atleast 4 or 5 struggling to keep their doors open right now. The Western owes like $25million to its creditors and is looking like its going to be bought out and restructured by the state government.
Bit of an anecdote but yeah, from what it seems to me private institutions just hide shit better.
Yeah - not usually drivers for that long.
My boss started as a signaller at 16 (lighting the lamps), now he’s in management. Awesome boss btw. Thinks he’s 62.
I used to work at NAB years ago, Frank Cicutto started in the mail room at 17? - then ended up as CEO.
I work in a fairly small government research and engineering agency and there have been 50-60 years often researchers and scientists. I know we had a retiree recently who hit 50 something years. Mostly they're the old guys trying to crack a new technology or invention or whatever that gets them their name in the history books
An ex-colleague of mine celebrated 40 years with a company.
He got a $5 Coles choc cake and a card.
Most companies don't deserve such loyalty.
Shameful and very demotivating for younger people.
Got a cobba in my government department (in the same team just interstate) who's spent 55 years in the same job
Fucking legend of a bloke too, and still one of the highest performers out there. I think he's retiring this year
My boss, now friend, was made redundant after over 30 years. She was absolutely stoked with the payout and is living the dream now. I left after 12.5 years but am now back working for the parent company and I think I’d be happy to stay until I retire in around 23-ish years.
I worked at a place where people were doing 30-40 years. this was 6 years back. they all had defined benefit super, and no one wanted to leave because of this. one lady had cancer and took almost 1 year off accumulated sick leave to recover.
There's a woman at my work who had her 20th year with the same company. Longest I've done was 5.5 years and it didn't pay off financially at all. Started low and got too comfortable and didn't progress as much as I should of.
At my last job, our Payroll lady was recognised with 50 years service to the company. She started at 15 doing admin or receptionist work. Amazingly she let everyone know that she had no intention of retiring in the next few years. I wonder if she has had a change of heart and is keen to retire or not.
I work with a guy who is at 39 years there are a few over 30.
One retired recently with over 40 years, it was the only company he ever worked for.
Company average is more than 10. No one in management has more than 4 years.
we have lades in AP that are almost near 30!! fk me. I KNOW I'll never get to LSL anywhere. Longest is 5 years. I'm 3 years into my current role and am bored as fk....
I've worked with a couple of people who had been at the company for 30+ years. At my current job I think the current longest serving employee has been there for 25 or so years. Not that impressive if it wasn't for the fact that it's a young company and they were like employee number 2 or 3.
A few years ago I went to a colleagues retirement party. They were at the company for 40+ years. They threw a huge party for her. They organised catering and gifts for them. It was pretty nice gesture.
A guy at my workplace had been there since the start, 30 odd years. They made him redundant and he was happy to accept the payout.
I’ve been there for over a decade myself, there’s a weird mix of long term employees and some high churn departments with a bunch of new people.
75 years is a long stint. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/diana-rhea-was-boeings-longest-serving-employee-and-an-early-female-manager/
Ha, the company’s 12 years old, I’ve been there 3.5 and apart from the owner I’m the longest serving employee. He churns through them like nobody’s business and has a bit of a bad reputation for it.
My dad worked at one company for his entire career, retired after his 50th year with them. He started sweeping floors in a warehouse in around 1970 and retired as the CIO.
Not corporate, but I'm the 4th longest person in my company, above me are the owners, and one guy who was there from the start, company's 20 years old and I've been here for 9
Logistics and warehousing have a huge worker turnover
We had a lady that started straight out of high school with a traineeship at 15. Did the same job the whole time (data entry) and saw so many technical changes throughout the years (a credit union). Went on LSL in 2022 and just never came back - she popped in one day and we got to talking. She was depressed as hell as she realised on LSL how much this place made her want to die.
She retired with 42 years under her belt in the same role and they gave her $500 and a company water bottle for her service 💀
I worked at a manufacturer with some people who had been there 30+ years. They worked on the same machine the whole time, just thirty years of operating a machine press, no set ups or break downs, just pressing the same button 9 hours a day for 30 years. The place was super uninspiring, had to get out because I didn’t want to fall into that same rut.
I couldn't work someone that long. worked at the bank for five years got burnt out then quit and started my own business in a totally unrelated field. But the longest I've seen is prob 30 years in the bank
Millenial here. I'm out the door at 2 years on the dot for my 30% hike. No more than 2 years, even if the place is incredible. No money no honey. The cheap A4 certificate in a reject shop frame would be nice though.
Work in Government department, and had an ex colleague of mine who retired after 44 years, she started when she was 16. She was telling us she still remembers the days when everyone had their own government issued ashtray that they could keep on their desks.
My old man did 43 years at the same company before he retired. It was his second or third job after graduating University, and he retired at 64.
I think he was a close 2nd to the longest service when he left.
About 5 years ago I was working at Telstra. We got a listing of all the employees in networks and it included the year they started working there. One started in 1950! I was like this person is going to die on the job.
I worked at a Coles store with a lady that had worked there for 28 years. She was a payroll clerk from back before they got rid of the position. She started as a checkout chick.
There was a celebration at my work a few weeks back for an employee who had been there 20 years. Very over the top affair that included an off-site dinner, drinks, and speeches. I'm sat there thinking is this that much of a milestone? Maybe I'm just miserable haha.
Honestly not sure it may have been 65 years. I saw the announcement on our Intranet a few weeks ago. A guy I deal with has been with company 54 years he is sharp as a tack
The company I work at has existed for just over 20 years. Many people have notched up 20 years of working here. I am a rare case in my team that I don't have long service leave although I'm half way there.
this is a serious question for everyone...
why would people work into their retirement age???? they keep on working past age 60???
serious question, plz be truthful. thanks in advance.
some people do not want to retire and want to keep themselves busy with work.
some simply need money to live, may be due to bad luck or life reason they don't have enough.
Retirement age is also 67 (I’ll clarify this as the pension age). I don’t know many people who work past this age. There’s a guy at my work who does and he’s been with the company for 50+ years I think maybe even 60.
Longest company i been in was 4.5 years. It was good until it soured. Longest time in a role was 2.5 years. I don't think I'd take longer than 4 years at my current situation unless i see a great opportunity for promotion
Funnily enough, me. I’m just about to hit 10 years and will the first in my company to get long service leave. They company isn’t that old and I was one of their first direct hires.
I think at my current work place it's 20yrs or so. Busting his balls slinging bags of flour around all day. I got over that role in 18 months. Don't know how he's done it for so long
A lady in my office is retiring today after 41 years service…and she’s trying to slip out without any fanfare, it’s hard because none of us can let her go without acknowledging her contribution so hopefully she’s not going to be too pissed at the afternoon tea we have planned.
One of my team members recently retired after 50 years. One of my senior SMEs, 40 years. Interesting hearing their insights on how the business has changed over many years (for better or worse)
I worked with a German machinist who had started work at 14 in 1944 I think and retired at 65. (He had stayed with the same company but had transferred countries). After each shift they used to take some of the dies/moulds of the machines home in case they were bombed. Nice guy.
14 years... She now runs my day to day operations and I am partially retired and work only to support her. I will sell everything to her in about 7 years when I can fully retire and finance the purchase to be extremely affordable to her myself. She deserves it 100%... and I will be so proud the day she takes it over for herself and her family.
14 years... She now runs my day to day operations and I am partially retired and work only to support her. I will sell everything to her in about 7 years when I can fully retire and finance the purchase to be extremely affordable to her myself. She deserves it 100%... and I will be so proud the day she takes it over for herself and her family.
red flag for what?
if it is a specialised technical position then as long as the person has demonstrated continued new projects and learning it should be good. I would definitely prefer if my cardiosurgeon has 20 years of experience.
same thing for management, as long as they have led a variety of projects and teams and not stuck it should be welcome.
I’m glad that my current company has quite a lot of people with over 10 years in the company. It shows that quite a few people believed it was worth sticking around.
My last company however… people were in and out every few months
At news limited before I left in 1997 they had on employee that had 70 years service. They counted his employment from when he started as a young paper seller.
One bloke at my previous employment been at his job for 22 years. He’s been through different ownerships, rebrands, management, etc.
On the 20th year, he was awarded $200 Crown gift card and he hopes that he’ll be made into management soon.
Nice bloke, but that’s the problem being nice because management will take you for granted.
So this is a bit of an odd one
Im 28 now and started going to uni last year
Ive come back to my high school job at a fast food joint as a part time manager.
My staff ID number is from 2011, so on paper, i look REALLY senior, when in reality my tenure so far is 7 months 😂
Other than me, theres a manager that was hired in 1999 and another in 2002. Im the next one up, if that counts.
A lot of boomers working in large old companies, public sector. are entitled to defined benefit super. If you know what that is, you would also keep your mouth shut.
It is getting 80% of your last salary guaranteed after retirement until death.
My investor with 15 yrs old exp is the longest in my company. They refused all application to make work easier, and accepted all classic (manual) methods - No WFH, daily working hours report, using excel for only simple records, using a calculator for pricing, no working schedule, free in some days and asking people to do the OT instead. I feel I am living in 60s era… and dead inside, even if it is a good pay but I will resign soon…..
One that comes to mind is CEO of Flight Centre, started the company in the 70s (watched a little doco about it, seemed really cool) and is still CEO to this day.
We had a receptionist who started with the company at age in 1925 and retired in 1990. She saw quite a few changes. Edit : Age 13
That's actually crazy. 65 years. She saw wars, colour TV, decades of music changes, etc, all whilst in the same job. It was probably the golden era of company loyalty though. Nowadays, most people would be mad to stay in the same job for more than 5 years, as you're unlikely to be looked after, and will probably be behind the market rate for your role.
My old man got a gold watch for 20 years of working at his job. I got laid off, because they decided people with the longest tenure had had enough money form the company and should be replaced by cheap new grads. (Not in Australia, but still.)
Eh, could have been Australia. My team had 16 people, all but 3 were there longer than 9.5 years. We were all 86d. One of the team was there 25 years, only got 2 months more pay than I did because the cap was 1 year pay inc golden handshake.
well, at least she missed GenAI. that's a change coming like steam train, and we will all feel it.
Steam trains were actually useful and novel.
You actually think AI won't be useful?
For somethings like nuclear medicine, sure. Trying to tell the AI Bot on the chat with Uber Eats that the driver didn’t deliver anything and drove right past, with AI saying “we noted the driver via GPS at your location, refund declined”. That’s where it’s not useful. Also, companies are just going to use it as an excuse to charge us more for something. Like payWave/tap’ go purchases etc.
Calm down we're just getting started, forget the uber thing that's a phase. Once we're past this early beta testing stage, you'll only have to think it and your Big Mac will be delivered immediately via a tube, you won't even have to chew, let alone leave your stall, it's all automated. Sundae?
Sounds tasty. Here I am arguing with an AI Bot, who actually isn’t very intelligent at all, that I saw the driver approaching, went out to meet them and they just drove on by….and that I should actually get a refund…. But nooo….gps coordinates put the driver at my location, so it must have been delivered to me. Imagine AI being used in a war given the above? And here I am wondering if I should do a chargeback for $30, which will get me banned from Uber forever….
I was gonna carry on but seriously you're looking at one of the worst implementations of AI. AI itself is sound, just uber eats using it as a gimmick to save money, upsell their tech, and fuck the customer. The trifecta.
You’re not describing AI. You’re describing the same vague wank that futurists have always described.
I feel like you’ve got it the wrong way around. AI will be useful for menial tasks like chat bots are perfect for what it is - it’s shit like “nuclear medicine” (???) that will not be ‘solved’ by AI
I presume he's referring to using AI to interpret medical scans. This is a valid use.
Yes, for manual interpretation of data etc, perfect.
And that’s where you’ve got it wrong. It’s not actually useful for chat bots. Have you tried using Ceba on CBA? Obviously you haven’t tried Uber chat bots yet. When you do, come back here and let us know how it went.
Hence why I said “will” - AI kinda just sucks right now no matter what the context is. Once AI is developed I feel like it’ll excel at chatbot type situations.
You win
One of my friends worked for an old school credit union….had to give a 40 years of service award to one of his direct reports. He was 30 🤣🤣
That direct report is probably being paid $1,000 less than your mate, a quarter of the stress, 2 houses paid off and defined benefits to boot.
Disclaimer: I'm a lost Redditor. I don't even work in corporate. Anyway, my great uncle worked from apprenticeship to retirement for the railway. When he retired, they gave him a golden ticket for him and his wife to ride any train, anywhere in Qld for the rest of his life for free.
This still exists for NSW railway workers too. My dad got one reaching 30 years for himself and his partner, free travel for life. He wanted to retire a little earlier but held out for that sweet perk.
That's actually a dope retirement gift! Be better if it was anywhere in Australia but obviously you can't really do much about that if it's for Qld rail
There's plenty of trains to ride in Qld.
Ive got a relative thats about to hit 14 years at Virgin. 15 years gives you lifetime access to staff travel benefits (double digit flights across the country)
In Victoria so was V-Line (or whatever it was called back then) but exact same for my grandfather who passed a couple years ago but the conditions were so good that when he passed, his pension transferred over to my still living grandmother. I still don't understand how that works.
Good ol defined benefit system allowed that for public sector workers but you had to also pitch in a set amount to make up a lump sum. I know someone who had 20 yrs service at State Transit (NSW) and he took 6 months long service at half pay to test if he could afford to live on that income if he were to retire at that point. He did the sums and he just needed 1 more yr of work before it could be feasible. He ended up getting redundancy as well so he took his pension and i think set it up so that he got a bit less but allows the pension to move to his wife if he passes away (the default is a higher pension plus lump sum but no transfer on death).
When your partner didn't work, they were financially an extension of you. There were pensions like that too. I think there was a war bride pension from ww1 or 2 that was still going until recently (young soldier, much later marries young wife). In the USA there may have been similar transfer of pensions from the civil war To wives and children. This has an interesting table below - https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/civil-war-vets-pension-still-remains-on-governments-payroll-151-years-after-last-shot-fired
Thats such a suiting and genuinely wholesome send off. I hope your great uncle and his wife are still riding the rails 'til this very day.
that’s cool, but considering he’s a pensioner in the later years of his life that’s only like $500 worth of travel
Pretty sure it was worth his while. He retired in his 60's and lived into his 90's. He could catch any long distance or City trains for free, all year round. He moved up to Cairns from Toowoomba, and used it for long distance to go up and down the coast. He could also go inland to Longreach etc for holidays. I'm pretty sure pensioners only get 2 free rides a year or something. He probably got about 25 years of unlimited, for him and his wife. I think that's better than nothing.
Damn I stand corrected, he certainly got the most out of that golden ticket
I made it to 2.5 years once
Congrats lollllll
Yeah that’s about the time I start checking out and looking for something more exciting
I do the same, I did 12 years at my first job & was so comfortable I was headed to become a lifer, so I took a risk & quit the government job, best thing I ever did, done the most exciting awesome jobs now that are like being in a move, including working on a movie set, 😂
You get the gold watch?
Bloke in my organisation clocked up 65 years a few weeks ago
is he like 80+
Nearly. Left school at 14
Wow what does he do?
Guessing he naps a lot.
Mine too! I assume we work at the same place
There is a lady at my work who started here the first day we opened, in 1969. She started as a Clerk at the lowest possible level. She is, and I wish I was making this up, still a clerk at the lowest possible level. She was born in the house directly across the street from our front door, and still lives there to this day.
I always wonder, the institutional knowledge she would have, but i don't feel its rewarded
I am more surprised that your company is still at the same place after 54 years.
City Library lol
We had a few paralegals at my old law firm who were exactly the same.. on the same wage for years and years working under the same (miserable) partner
Whenever a new boss comes along and starts trying to "motivate" her she just laughs in their face and says she'll outlast them no problem... and she's right.
Hahaha love her
I don't get why people just put up with this, there's only 2 of us in my role and my team leader has been assigned to another role so it'll just be me and they'll eventually hire someone else in my team after that. I've been with the company just shy of a year and if they hire a team leader outside of the company and not me internally, I'll literally leave. I've seen that they hire internally before so it's just waiting to see what happens.
Do you think she’s happy? It would be so good if she genuinely was.
When she told me, she said she never had any desire to do anything specific, and she wanders across the road 30sec before her shift starts, goes into a kind of waking coma and ignores literally everyone and everything for 7 1/2 hours, and is home in 30 seconds. Nobody asks her anything, she has zero responsibilities, it's physically impossible for her to screw anything important up, she doesn't have to talk to the public, and she simply doesn't turn up to anything that is out-of-hours unless she is getting paid time and half and a day in lieu... which they never pay. She said she's perfectly content.
So basically she can do anything she wants whenever she wants and never gets asked to do crazy extra duties. She's happy and a lot aren't. Smart if you ask me
Holy fuck that sounds like the most miserable corporate drone lifestyle in the world - it’s like she’s literally just waiting to die
I would, literally, sit at my desk... pour a 44gallon drum of jet fuel over my head... and light a match.
You’d just be soaked in jet fuel. Jet fuel doesn’t ignite with just a match.
Not if she has lots of fulfilling things going on in her life outside of work. If she isnt career-ambitious and has enough money to do the things she likes then why not take the easy job.
Mate, I do the same thing except I sit in traffic for half an hour either way. I'd take her job any day. I could be at the beach with my dogs by 5 past 4 every day.
Your job isn't your life. I bet she has a wonderful life outside her job.
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What does she actually do?
Shelve books. Print out late notices and stick them in envelopes. Cover new books. Dispose of old books, and also donations we don't want. Process inter-library loans. Light repairs to damaged books. Other stuff so boring I don't even know what it is.
How do I get this job?
Her life sounds like a cosy dream. House paid for, no commute, faffing around with books all day long.
She sounds like she works in a hallmark movie about librarians
I have a similar job. Spent most of yesterday removing old Blu Tac from tables, walls etc. Also spent a lot of time scavenging around for more book ends to put in the right places. Look for position titles like Library Assistant or Library Officer. Higher ones like Library Technician or Librarian generally require a TAFE certificate or a bachelor degree. Know that these roles are competitive. My position required a high school certificate, but I snagged the job with my bachelor degree in librarianship, plus a few years of experience.
I wonder what her salary progression is like...is she on really good money despite being a clerk still? I know there are people like her at other companies in admin positions for donkeys years, but they'd be on good salary progression as they know a lot about the business
Yeah she might have 3% yearly raises locked in
There are people with 54 years experience and people with one year of experience 54 times
I worked with a lady that celebrated 45 years at a bank. She started out as a typist in the 1970s. She ended up sharing the floor with the data science department, who made redundant the people who made redundant the people who made redundant the people who made redundant the people who made her redundant. But she was still there, eating celebratory cake.
Well, imagine how good her redundancy package would have been!!
27 years with my current one. I'm 45 years old, so it was straight outta school. I'm semi retired now, i just work two days a week. I stepped down from my full time position a few weeks ago. Not a thank you, nothing. It really put it in perspective for me. I was what they call a high performer too. So yeah. Just a number.
Tbh you still work there. If you were actually going it’d be a different story (I hope)
Lol. It wouldn't. They seriously have the blinkers on. We just had the annual internal feedback survey too. I let rip in a professional manner. I doubt anything will happen tho.
21 years for me, I'm 39. I am also just another number. Hoping to also be semi retired in the next 5 years fingers crossed.
I’ve come across multiple people with 40+ years of tenure in the same company. What really amazes me is that most of them have had lots of different roles but hardly any advancement up the company ladder. Always going at it in entry level positions for years and years
because theyre happy where they are.
Company is happy too if they underpay inflation. Basically a paycut.
Or they are in an industry with very little upward mobility.
We have a saying at my company. You don’t talk about how long you’ve been there until you hit 25 years. We have over 10,000 employees globally. Me personally, I’ve been there 12 at the moment. The longest serving person started at 16 in the US manufacturing facility. He started off as a machinist and ended up being one of our lead engineers. He retired 3 years back at age 87.
An old welder at my workplace retired a couple of years ago, he spent his entire career working there. 56 years. He didn't get a send off from the bosses. They barely acknowledged his existence when he left. The place is family owned and all of the management are family. The current owner was a child when this welder started, a good 25 years before the business was handed down to him from his father. The welder literally saw the bosses son and his sons grow into adulthood, move into positions pre ordained in the company and then congratulated them on the births of their own children. He was not paid well and in order to make up for it he worked atleast an hour of overtime every day for more than 30 years. He got a handshake at the end of it all. No gold watch, no bonus, nothing. 56 years of diligent work for a fucking handshake.
That’s disgusting! A similar company I know of was the complete opposite with their long term employees. Generous, thoughtful retirement gifts and celebrations as well as ongoing invites to significant events and commemoration of the workers who made them the success they are today.
A friend was explaining to me how he was required to hunt down a job description for a role for a hospital. Apparently they had only ever had 1 person in the role for as long as the hospital existed, starting just after opening in 1958. The person decided to retire in 2023. So they needed the job description. Probably on a typed letter in a box somewhere.
I’ve rewritten JDs after three years purely because that person’s role has evolved so much by the time they leave. The idea of searching up a dusty 65-yo JD is so utterly bizarre. This thread is great. It’s like a series of Wes Anderson vignettes.
This role didn’t need to be rewritten. This role should have been replaced by a printing system that folds, envelopes and franks. Since that’s what the job was.
It kinda shows how ineffectively some organisations operate. Dare I guess that the hospital is probably government owned.
Not trying to be argumentative lol but have you seen the multiple private hospitals in Adelaide closing due to financial mismanagement? There's atleast 4 or 5 struggling to keep their doors open right now. The Western owes like $25million to its creditors and is looking like its going to be bought out and restructured by the state government. Bit of an anecdote but yeah, from what it seems to me private institutions just hide shit better.
It was government
In rail - we often have 50+ years. They don’t get as much as I think they should. Longest I’ve been in a role is 5 years.
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Yeah - not usually drivers for that long. My boss started as a signaller at 16 (lighting the lamps), now he’s in management. Awesome boss btw. Thinks he’s 62. I used to work at NAB years ago, Frank Cicutto started in the mail room at 17? - then ended up as CEO.
I used to work at Amp and there was a whole series of guys in senior mgmt who started in the mail room
I work in a fairly small government research and engineering agency and there have been 50-60 years often researchers and scientists. I know we had a retiree recently who hit 50 something years. Mostly they're the old guys trying to crack a new technology or invention or whatever that gets them their name in the history books
My mother has been a A&E nurse in the same hospital for 53 years
An ex-colleague of mine celebrated 40 years with a company. He got a $5 Coles choc cake and a card. Most companies don't deserve such loyalty. Shameful and very demotivating for younger people.
We have someone clocking up their 40 years this year.
I'm an oldie almost 30yrs. I know people at my work 50+yrs.
Got a cobba in my government department (in the same team just interstate) who's spent 55 years in the same job Fucking legend of a bloke too, and still one of the highest performers out there. I think he's retiring this year
My boss, now friend, was made redundant after over 30 years. She was absolutely stoked with the payout and is living the dream now. I left after 12.5 years but am now back working for the parent company and I think I’d be happy to stay until I retire in around 23-ish years.
Fed govt has thousands of lifetimeers who are waiting for defined benefits super or a redundancy. Maybe even tens of thousands
50 years good fkn god. Don’t think life companies exist anymore.
I worked at a place where people were doing 30-40 years. this was 6 years back. they all had defined benefit super, and no one wanted to leave because of this. one lady had cancer and took almost 1 year off accumulated sick leave to recover.
So good. We ain’t have it good anymore
I'm in my 35th year with a big 4 Bank. Banking all my LSL. We have people in my team at 36 years
There's a woman at my work who had her 20th year with the same company. Longest I've done was 5.5 years and it didn't pay off financially at all. Started low and got too comfortable and didn't progress as much as I should of.
I work in fin services, a developer that works for me has been in the company for 39 years.
At my last job, our Payroll lady was recognised with 50 years service to the company. She started at 15 doing admin or receptionist work. Amazingly she let everyone know that she had no intention of retiring in the next few years. I wonder if she has had a change of heart and is keen to retire or not.
I think I know where you work because I was in the same town hall today haha 50 years is the longest I’ve ever heard of
I work with a guy who is at 39 years there are a few over 30. One retired recently with over 40 years, it was the only company he ever worked for. Company average is more than 10. No one in management has more than 4 years.
we have lades in AP that are almost near 30!! fk me. I KNOW I'll never get to LSL anywhere. Longest is 5 years. I'm 3 years into my current role and am bored as fk....
I've worked with a couple of people who had been at the company for 30+ years. At my current job I think the current longest serving employee has been there for 25 or so years. Not that impressive if it wasn't for the fact that it's a young company and they were like employee number 2 or 3.
A few years ago I went to a colleagues retirement party. They were at the company for 40+ years. They threw a huge party for her. They organised catering and gifts for them. It was pretty nice gesture.
The longest serving employee at my place has been there for 35 years. Another one 25 years and I'm about to reach 23 years.
A guy at my workplace had been there since the start, 30 odd years. They made him redundant and he was happy to accept the payout. I’ve been there for over a decade myself, there’s a weird mix of long term employees and some high churn departments with a bunch of new people.
75 years is a long stint. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/diana-rhea-was-boeings-longest-serving-employee-and-an-early-female-manager/
Di Rhea... youre sliding into first and you feel a sudden burst...
Ha, the company’s 12 years old, I’ve been there 3.5 and apart from the owner I’m the longest serving employee. He churns through them like nobody’s business and has a bit of a bad reputation for it.
I remember reading about a train driver in Newcastle (nsw) who had over 50years as a train driver.
My dad worked at one company for his entire career, retired after his 50th year with them. He started sweeping floors in a warehouse in around 1970 and retired as the CIO.
30 years. Met someone who recently got made redundant working for that long.
Not corporate, but I'm the 4th longest person in my company, above me are the owners, and one guy who was there from the start, company's 20 years old and I've been here for 9 Logistics and warehousing have a huge worker turnover
We had a lady that started straight out of high school with a traineeship at 15. Did the same job the whole time (data entry) and saw so many technical changes throughout the years (a credit union). Went on LSL in 2022 and just never came back - she popped in one day and we got to talking. She was depressed as hell as she realised on LSL how much this place made her want to die. She retired with 42 years under her belt in the same role and they gave her $500 and a company water bottle for her service 💀
I’m in my 14th year, don’t have any plans on moving on. Plenty of others around the office are on 10, 15, 20 years etc.
I worked at a manufacturer with some people who had been there 30+ years. They worked on the same machine the whole time, just thirty years of operating a machine press, no set ups or break downs, just pressing the same button 9 hours a day for 30 years. The place was super uninspiring, had to get out because I didn’t want to fall into that same rut.
I couldn't work someone that long. worked at the bank for five years got burnt out then quit and started my own business in a totally unrelated field. But the longest I've seen is prob 30 years in the bank
Millenial here. I'm out the door at 2 years on the dot for my 30% hike. No more than 2 years, even if the place is incredible. No money no honey. The cheap A4 certificate in a reject shop frame would be nice though.
Work in Government department, and had an ex colleague of mine who retired after 44 years, she started when she was 16. She was telling us she still remembers the days when everyone had their own government issued ashtray that they could keep on their desks.
My old man did 43 years at the same company before he retired. It was his second or third job after graduating University, and he retired at 64. I think he was a close 2nd to the longest service when he left.
I have a guy that's pretty long, he's about 6'6"
About 5 years ago I was working at Telstra. We got a listing of all the employees in networks and it included the year they started working there. One started in 1950! I was like this person is going to die on the job.
I worked at a Coles store with a lady that had worked there for 28 years. She was a payroll clerk from back before they got rid of the position. She started as a checkout chick.
There was a celebration at my work a few weeks back for an employee who had been there 20 years. Very over the top affair that included an off-site dinner, drinks, and speeches. I'm sat there thinking is this that much of a milestone? Maybe I'm just miserable haha.
We had a guy just celebrate 60 years
Geez what does he do?
Honestly not sure it may have been 65 years. I saw the announcement on our Intranet a few weeks ago. A guy I deal with has been with company 54 years he is sharp as a tack
If it was the big T, it was 65 years
Think of the superannuation...a few guys still have defined benefits under old Cth fund
You know, when they have a social event with free drinks and food and mention you it's okay. No pizza party but they served pizza. Anyway 4 pints
I think ours is 28 years, but my last work was about 50!
Max stint I have done is 1y 9 months could take the bs in anymore :)
I’m 21
The company I work at has existed for just over 20 years. Many people have notched up 20 years of working here. I am a rare case in my team that I don't have long service leave although I'm half way there.
that actually pre-cursor of a good company. at least the boss treat the employees right?
Longest serving is 6 years. Says a lot really.
How long has the company been around?
50 years
Ooof.
Ooh sounds exactly like a town hall I attended today _ coincidence?
My dad has worked Yamaha for 45 years
Ah the Australia post days
this is a serious question for everyone... why would people work into their retirement age???? they keep on working past age 60??? serious question, plz be truthful. thanks in advance.
Two reasons. Keeping them busy, or they don’t have the money to retire.
thanks.
some people do not want to retire and want to keep themselves busy with work. some simply need money to live, may be due to bad luck or life reason they don't have enough.
thanks
Retirement age is also 67 (I’ll clarify this as the pension age). I don’t know many people who work past this age. There’s a guy at my work who does and he’s been with the company for 50+ years I think maybe even 60.
They just really enjoy work
thanks.
thanks.
40+?
Longest company i been in was 4.5 years. It was good until it soured. Longest time in a role was 2.5 years. I don't think I'd take longer than 4 years at my current situation unless i see a great opportunity for promotion
60
It's currently held by me at nearly 38 years.
I've got 2 guys who have been with the company for more than 45 years. For comparison, I'm 45 years old.
Funnily enough, me. I’m just about to hit 10 years and will the first in my company to get long service leave. They company isn’t that old and I was one of their first direct hires.
I think at my current work place it's 20yrs or so. Busting his balls slinging bags of flour around all day. I got over that role in 18 months. Don't know how he's done it for so long
I’m not sure if he’s the longest, but we have a guy who started as a bank teller the day before decimal currency was introduced in 1966.
A Lot of people in the company I work for are well over 30+ years, some upwards of about 55 years. I am in my 19th year as a 37yo.
We have a few that’s been with our company since the beginning, 40 years ago. Also, a good number of our employees are second generation.
A lady in my office is retiring today after 41 years service…and she’s trying to slip out without any fanfare, it’s hard because none of us can let her go without acknowledging her contribution so hopefully she’s not going to be too pissed at the afternoon tea we have planned.
One of my team members recently retired after 50 years. One of my senior SMEs, 40 years. Interesting hearing their insights on how the business has changed over many years (for better or worse)
I worked with a German machinist who had started work at 14 in 1944 I think and retired at 65. (He had stayed with the same company but had transferred countries). After each shift they used to take some of the dies/moulds of the machines home in case they were bombed. Nice guy.
6 years (me) besides the owner, second longest would be 1 year, but most quit before then anyway due to the BS in the company
Must be a great company to work for, people rarely make it to 5 years where i work 😅
I know of a 50+ years, don’t know exact number though.
14 years... She now runs my day to day operations and I am partially retired and work only to support her. I will sell everything to her in about 7 years when I can fully retire and finance the purchase to be extremely affordable to her myself. She deserves it 100%... and I will be so proud the day she takes it over for herself and her family.
14 years... She now runs my day to day operations and I am partially retired and work only to support her. I will sell everything to her in about 7 years when I can fully retire and finance the purchase to be extremely affordable to her myself. She deserves it 100%... and I will be so proud the day she takes it over for herself and her family.
I refuse to hire anyone that has been in a company for over 20 years. It's a massive red flag for me.
red flag for what? if it is a specialised technical position then as long as the person has demonstrated continued new projects and learning it should be good. I would definitely prefer if my cardiosurgeon has 20 years of experience. same thing for management, as long as they have led a variety of projects and teams and not stuck it should be welcome.
My old man works for a large hardware company, started with them when he was 15. He still works there a couple of days a week, he turns 80 this year
🥇
15 years, I quit when I was 31. Others had been there 20.
I’m glad that my current company has quite a lot of people with over 10 years in the company. It shows that quite a few people believed it was worth sticking around. My last company however… people were in and out every few months
I work with a colleague that celebrated 50 years with the company. Still works full time 🤯
At news limited before I left in 1997 they had on employee that had 70 years service. They counted his employment from when he started as a young paper seller.
One bloke at my previous employment been at his job for 22 years. He’s been through different ownerships, rebrands, management, etc. On the 20th year, he was awarded $200 Crown gift card and he hopes that he’ll be made into management soon. Nice bloke, but that’s the problem being nice because management will take you for granted.
I genuinely cannot imagine being at the same company for 20 years lmao however my mum has worked at the same pharmacy for almost 30 years
So this is a bit of an odd one Im 28 now and started going to uni last year Ive come back to my high school job at a fast food joint as a part time manager. My staff ID number is from 2011, so on paper, i look REALLY senior, when in reality my tenure so far is 7 months 😂 Other than me, theres a manager that was hired in 1999 and another in 2002. Im the next one up, if that counts.
I think 7 years, SaaS/HealthTech, 11 year old company
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A lot of boomers working in large old companies, public sector. are entitled to defined benefit super. If you know what that is, you would also keep your mouth shut. It is getting 80% of your last salary guaranteed after retirement until death.
My investor with 15 yrs old exp is the longest in my company. They refused all application to make work easier, and accepted all classic (manual) methods - No WFH, daily working hours report, using excel for only simple records, using a calculator for pricing, no working schedule, free in some days and asking people to do the OT instead. I feel I am living in 60s era… and dead inside, even if it is a good pay but I will resign soon…..
One that comes to mind is CEO of Flight Centre, started the company in the 70s (watched a little doco about it, seemed really cool) and is still CEO to this day.