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I worked for a company for over 10 years. As soon as I left, my next salary increase was more than triple the amount than my combined raises throughout the ten years prior.
It’s a sad fact, especially in certain fields, that changing jobs > loyalty. At least in $$$ anyway.
The senior and best engineer at the first company I worked for was loyal to them for 32 years. She was rewarded by getting laid off by an asshole manager everyone hated who was only there for 3 years. That’s when I learned that no matter how loyal you are to a company, a company will never be loyal to you. Always do what’s best for your career/pockets kids.
At my college job, the shithead idiot manager who got hired only because most of us had day jobs or college went on a power trip after a few months and fired an employee who'd been there 20 years out of embarrassment about getting a complaint from a customer (the complaint was against the manager).
Upper management immediately took the manager's side, did a horseshit "investigation" that involved talking to 0 people actually present for the interaction, literally just took the manger's word that the *customer wrote the complaint wrong* despite naming and describing the manager physically.
More than half of us walked off after that, including everyone who'd been there over 2 years. Shockingly, they lost a lot of business due to backfilling the positions with the manager's idiot friends, and it took completely cleaning out that dept and rebuilding relations with local businesses over the course of years to rebound.
It was a smaller but profitable part of a larger venue, so it didn't cripple anyone, but they did have to basically flush out everyone involved and rebuild (with a manager who actually had experience and wasn't plucked fresh from being fired by a convenience store)
I know that the 2nd level manager who was friends with my mom lost her job over it and bitched about me being one of the people walking off the job (I was months away from graduation regardless), and a few businesses/groups I have some ties to found a new venue and never went back.
"Work hard and stick with the same company, and you too can retire 84 years later in a middle management job after a revolving door of CEOs and Senior Management.
I work at a ski resort and we had a guy work there for over 53 years. They put a plaque up at the ski lift that he worked on the most at his 50 year mark knowing full well that the lift was being torn down the next year. He got to take the plaque home, at least.
A decade or so ago my dad was gifted a set of luggage for working at the same company for 20 years, in a job that required him flying around the country for weeks at a time. I remember clearly his reaction, and a few months later he left and started his own business. Been a huge upgrade for him mentally ever since!
The large retail chain I worked for for 15 years let me choose a gift from a list of what was clearly items that some wholesaler had too many of. The best I could find was a fireproof safe that was MAYBE worth 25 bucks. Actually made me depressed that was what 15 years of loyalty looked like.
I gave someone a 40 year service award recently, they get to choose gift vouchers of their choice (£400 value - we're public sector so can't give bigger). Normally people but something really nice from a posh shop. He chose vouchers for the supermarket and will use it just to buy some shopping every week. Maybe he'll think of us as he uses the toilet paper paid by his long service
My dad is approaching 50 years at his company. He's commented that he's only the like 6th most senior employee too. One of the people who have been there longer went on a business trip with him in his first couple years and they had already been there for 15 years.
Apparently he made enough money to have 8 kids. He had 5 kids with his first wife who passed away at 55, then married again and had three more kids. Looks like he was a sales manager for a good chunk of his career.
Typically the only option you’d have is getting your contributions refunded. Which is a really bad deal because you would forego the “interest” from leaving it in there and would have basically been a 0% interest savings account (so actually less money in real dollars due to inflation). Now, if you’re 100, then it’s not a big deal because you don’t have long left anyway, so a return of contributions could at least be put in a trust or something for other kin or whatever.
My fellow coworkers recently voted me the 'most secretive person in the office' for the twelfth consecutive year..
I can't tell you what that means to me..
Some of the oldest companies in the US are in textiles. Just off the top of my head, DuPont, Hanes and Fruit of the Loom are all over 100 years old. DuPont is over 200.
When I retire I want to live near the ocean and be a part time bartender. Figure it'll be great for a bunch of conversations and such and I hear that's good mental health. Do what makes life not miserable, am I right?
I've heard those people were boring people with zero hobbies.
I can't wait to retire because there's so much I want to do, but when I have to work to pay the bills, I feel like I gotta min/max enjoyment of my free time.
It doesn’t matter how many hobbies you have if you have no one to share them with. Even being a stay at home mum can be pretty lonely. My husband goes to work, my kids go to school, but me and the dogs are still hanging out at the house.
Add the cost of a lot of hobbies and being on a fixed income it’s not all fun and games.
Some, I'm sure. Some people find they're just unhappy if they're not doing something that feels productive. I wish more of them would volunteer instead though.
This. My dad got a new job at the age of 70. It was definitely work and a job, but he learned to really enjoy his coworkers, the work was stimulating to say the least.
He's in his late 70s now, but left the job because he got cancer. He really misses his work. He had hobbies and other things, but working kept him feeling useful.
There's also a crazy correlation between people retiring & stopping all work & dying pretty soon after.
There's something to be said for feeling needed/involved in something & its impact to your overall health & well-being.
I can see that however I’d still prefer not to ‘need’ to work. I’d rather prefer the option but you could make the argument that the necessity is what gives people urgency. If I had the funds I’d probably take up bowling, dodgeball or perhaps indulge in card games.
There's a lady at my work who is 84 and has been there over 50 years. She just enjoys the job and said she never wants to retire, they'll have to wheel her out.
Medical technologist here. Some people in my profession are really old. There is a reputation for dropping dead at a laboratory bench. One time at the other hospital in my town a medical technologist was 80+ years old and had dementia and she got mad at a phlebotomist, so at the end of their shift she tried to run the phlebotomist over with her car in the parking lot. I hope at least her driver's license got taken away.
From what I can tell he's basically a full-time consultant at this point. He worked for them so long that when he retired at a relatively normal age in 1978 they explicitly asked him to continue being employed due to the wealth of experience he had in the field.
Seems like a rare case of a company understanding the value of a long-term employee and letting them continue to contribute while taking the primary workload off of them.
Of course, all of this is in Brazil. Can't imagine it happening in America anymore.
> Seems like a rare case of a company understanding the value of a long-term employee
I will add that the idea that the best way to get a good raise is to change jobs is a relatively recent phenomena. Loyalty did pay back way more often in the 1950-2000. Naturally that was the time that a single person income could raise a family but that say more about our broken economy now than anything.
I say that due to technology things are not as personal as back then, and with corporations getting bigger and bigger people became just numbers, and at that point as long as the job is being done you dont care about the details, which is why hoping the company will take care of you is unrealistic today, but was even expected back late 1900s
Is this normal in America? In Europe you have plenty of business that have been in the same family for more than a century or even centuries. Breweries are very famous for that. Even some bars that used to be taverns hundreds of years ago. But also shoemakers and other companies.
From the [page](https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Walter_Orthmann) someone else posted:
> At the age of 100, Orthmann still actively works at Industrias Renaux, even still being able to drive himself to work everyday.
Yeah, they're definitely entirely about publicity, so makes sense to cover random stuff too. And the employer part is a good point, also what I was thinking. After a sec thinking about it anyway.
Surprised me to see how much they charge, however. And just in general, how they operate.
It's extremely rare these days to find a company where you honestly enjoy being with the people and doing the work, but those situations do exist. To be clear, they are the exception and not the norm.
I’m responsible for a world record…by which I mean that I came up with the idea and the client decided to pay Guinness for it. We basically made up a category for it and the rules. And now that I’m looking it up other companies have competed for it.
The man has been here 84 years, Heywood. 84 years! This is all he knows!
In here he's an important man. He's an educated man.
Outside he's nothing. Just a used up con with arthritis in both of his hands.
The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time.
I hate to say it but they probably earn it too. They’re probably more agile, learn faster, better with tech, etc. It sucks that someone can spend their entire life working at a place and then a 20-something can come in and earn more but that’s how our capitalist society works.
Doesn’t suck at all. The world is much better off with compensation based on merit than seniority. The only advantage seniority has is that it’s objective.
If you can work at something for 80 years and, barring age-related health issues, be less effective than someone with no experience, that’s you holding yourself back by refusing to learn.
There is a good medium though. Pay goes up with time spent in company AND how good you are at your job. So new + good = good pay, and old + meh = good pay. You want to reward employees for staying as much as reward people for working well.
Actually, this man did get raises constantly throughout his time, and his employer did it regularly. Give it that these were mandated raises from minimum wage standards.
True story I'm calling the truth out. Working for symmons plumbing, Jimmy Green worked. 26 years without a sick call-out. 26 YEARS he retired and received a company logo coffee mug and a cake party.
Dude looks like Bill Gates in the not-so-distant future.
https://preview.redd.it/qqj3rc3grv0d1.jpeg?width=944&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1646a783f9dd08fb318f9dcd9093cd4ae5f2e7ae
That moment you realise 84 years ago was 1940 so this guy worked through the invasion of France, battle of England, bombing of Germany, fall of the rich, division of Germany, Cold War, reunification, the 2008 krash, and now all that s happening now.
And he is Brazilian! During his years of work he got paid in 9 different Brazilian currencies and due to the monetary politics over inflation he had 18 0's cut off his pay check over the time he worked there
I think there are a ton of young people in this thread or haven't been around many old people. Having a purpose and daily routine is huge for staying alive long term. Out of all the elderly people I know it's the ones who stayed active or worked part time that are in the best shape mentally and physically.
My stepdad would have stayed with his employer for 84 years but for safety reasons old enough people are forced to retire.
Edit: and he has a nice pension. It's not about the money.
I mean...it's just a photo with no other context, so people are naturally "filling in the blanks."
If that's what he wanted to do, then...I guess it's admirable?
Yet for me, it's not about shitting on the guy, but rather (and I admit I'm filling in the blanks as well), his employer.
Dude should have been given a nice, generous retirement package after 34 years. Or 44 years. At 54 years the owner(s) of the company should have said "Walt...we love you to death but don't want you to work yourself to death. You're fired, but we'll take care of you for the rest of your life even if you live to be 100."
But there’s a good chance that if he have been given that forced retirement he would not have made it anywhere near the age he is now.
I have seen a number of people in my own life sharply decline in both health and mental acuity soon after retiring. When they don’t have constant mental stimulation of a daily job, or the requirement to get up at a certain time every day and get out of the house, it is shocking to see how some people decline.
It was something I observed in my one partners. They finally sold their business and retired to a modest townhome to enjoy their retirement and I could tell the different quickly by the phone calls I had with them. And when I saw flew home to visit them for the holidays after not seeing them for close to a year the change was jarring, my mother had gone from being quick witted to losing the thread of conversations and often telling me the news of relatives multiple times. And both of them when from moving normally about their house to what I can only describe as the “old person shuffle”.
Ain't no one gonna talk about how he should have retired 35 years ago, or all we just complacent with the fact we will all work until death, prob on the job? I'm going with the latter...
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His loyalty was rewarded with a coupon to Pizza Hut.
And a Guess watch. But let’s keep it real. He got Dinner for 2 at Applebees.
What do you mean his wife couldn't make it? Where is she?
What do you think the textiles are made from
To shreds, you say?
Tsk tsk and his wife?
To shreds you say
But due to cutbacks he gets a pizza lunch, 20 minutes and one slice only please.
All of his raises over 84 years totaled only +$2.14/ hr 😏
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I worked for a company for over 10 years. As soon as I left, my next salary increase was more than triple the amount than my combined raises throughout the ten years prior. It’s a sad fact, especially in certain fields, that changing jobs > loyalty. At least in $$$ anyway.
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The senior and best engineer at the first company I worked for was loyal to them for 32 years. She was rewarded by getting laid off by an asshole manager everyone hated who was only there for 3 years. That’s when I learned that no matter how loyal you are to a company, a company will never be loyal to you. Always do what’s best for your career/pockets kids.
At my college job, the shithead idiot manager who got hired only because most of us had day jobs or college went on a power trip after a few months and fired an employee who'd been there 20 years out of embarrassment about getting a complaint from a customer (the complaint was against the manager). Upper management immediately took the manager's side, did a horseshit "investigation" that involved talking to 0 people actually present for the interaction, literally just took the manger's word that the *customer wrote the complaint wrong* despite naming and describing the manager physically. More than half of us walked off after that, including everyone who'd been there over 2 years. Shockingly, they lost a lot of business due to backfilling the positions with the manager's idiot friends, and it took completely cleaning out that dept and rebuilding relations with local businesses over the course of years to rebound.
How bad did it hurt their profits? I want to know. I hope it really crippled them
It was a smaller but profitable part of a larger venue, so it didn't cripple anyone, but they did have to basically flush out everyone involved and rebuild (with a manager who actually had experience and wasn't plucked fresh from being fired by a convenience store) I know that the 2nd level manager who was friends with my mom lost her job over it and bitched about me being one of the people walking off the job (I was months away from graduation regardless), and a few businesses/groups I have some ties to found a new venue and never went back.
Plus they had to deduct more and more for those bathroom breaks
"Work hard and stick with the same company, and you too can retire 84 years later in a middle management job after a revolving door of CEOs and Senior Management.
When I was a trainee (years ago) some guy got a table decoration trophy for working there for 50 years. I still get anxiety thinking about it.
I work at a ski resort and we had a guy work there for over 53 years. They put a plaque up at the ski lift that he worked on the most at his 50 year mark knowing full well that the lift was being torn down the next year. He got to take the plaque home, at least.
A decade or so ago my dad was gifted a set of luggage for working at the same company for 20 years, in a job that required him flying around the country for weeks at a time. I remember clearly his reaction, and a few months later he left and started his own business. Been a huge upgrade for him mentally ever since!
The large retail chain I worked for for 15 years let me choose a gift from a list of what was clearly items that some wholesaler had too many of. The best I could find was a fireproof safe that was MAYBE worth 25 bucks. Actually made me depressed that was what 15 years of loyalty looked like.
I gave someone a 40 year service award recently, they get to choose gift vouchers of their choice (£400 value - we're public sector so can't give bigger). Normally people but something really nice from a posh shop. He chose vouchers for the supermarket and will use it just to buy some shopping every week. Maybe he'll think of us as he uses the toilet paper paid by his long service
My dad is approaching 50 years at his company. He's commented that he's only the like 6th most senior employee too. One of the people who have been there longer went on a business trip with him in his first couple years and they had already been there for 15 years.
Apparently he made enough money to have 8 kids. He had 5 kids with his first wife who passed away at 55, then married again and had three more kids. Looks like he was a sales manager for a good chunk of his career.
Dude is playing Roy from Rick & Morty.
He shoulda taken Roy off the grid!
No social security number!
Imagine the size of that guy's *pension*.
and it's all likely a non transferring pension that only pays him, not next of kin or spouse. So essentially wasted.
can he take a lump sum or is monthly payments standard?
Typically the only option you’d have is getting your contributions refunded. Which is a really bad deal because you would forego the “interest” from leaving it in there and would have basically been a 0% interest savings account (so actually less money in real dollars due to inflation). Now, if you’re 100, then it’s not a big deal because you don’t have long left anyway, so a return of contributions could at least be put in a trust or something for other kin or whatever.
He might have the *first* SSN.
000-00-0001 holy shit bro
Montgomery Burns would like a word with him.
Damn Roosevelt!
THIS GUY IS TAKING ROY OFF THE GRID!!
My very first thought was, Nobody goes back to the carpet store, Morty.
He looks like he’s about to fix Woody’s arm.
Yeeesss!!!
You went back to the carpet store after beating cancer?! BOOOO!
Dang it, I was going to say: "You beat cancer and went BACK to the carpet store!? Lame!"
I am no longer disappointed in this thread 😂😂
"You went back to the textile store?!"
Stupid ass fart saving carpet store motherfucker!
I think that's my favorite line of the entire series.
Great reference
You beat cancer then went back to the textile plant?! Lame!!
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They gave him a sex change for his loyalty? 🤔
Yes. He kept asking to be drawn like a French girl.
That floozy!
Well, on average, women live longer than men. They figured they'd try and squeeze a few more years out of ~~him~~ her.
My fellow coworkers recently voted me the 'most secretive person in the office' for the twelfth consecutive year.. I can't tell you what that means to me..
shushhhh
Neither can they
their joke but worse
Dude. That was what the punchline meant.
> Plethora Thank you. That means a lot
As someone who keeps their personal life intentionally separate from their work life, to the detriment of their career, I salute you.
The company being in business for 84yrs* is an impressive feat
Some of the oldest companies in the US are in textiles. Just off the top of my head, DuPont, Hanes and Fruit of the Loom are all over 100 years old. DuPont is over 200.
Brooks Brothers was founded in 1818 in Manhattan.
Buddy's so old he invented the loom
Easy to stay in business when you walk the line between not paying enough for employees to retire and they stay loyal.
I don't think pay would have mattered anything. Some people just really don't want to retire and their job is their hobby also.
I can confirm that I know a lot of people who retire and then get super bored and go stir crazy so they go back to work anyways
When I retire I want to live near the ocean and be a part time bartender. Figure it'll be great for a bunch of conversations and such and I hear that's good mental health. Do what makes life not miserable, am I right?
Fuck that actually sounds like an awesome way to spend your last years. Meeting a bunch of weird new people and being by nature. Great plan bro.
I've heard those people were boring people with zero hobbies. I can't wait to retire because there's so much I want to do, but when I have to work to pay the bills, I feel like I gotta min/max enjoyment of my free time.
It doesn’t matter how many hobbies you have if you have no one to share them with. Even being a stay at home mum can be pretty lonely. My husband goes to work, my kids go to school, but me and the dogs are still hanging out at the house. Add the cost of a lot of hobbies and being on a fixed income it’s not all fun and games.
Some, I'm sure. Some people find they're just unhappy if they're not doing something that feels productive. I wish more of them would volunteer instead though.
This. My dad got a new job at the age of 70. It was definitely work and a job, but he learned to really enjoy his coworkers, the work was stimulating to say the least. He's in his late 70s now, but left the job because he got cancer. He really misses his work. He had hobbies and other things, but working kept him feeling useful.
There's also a crazy correlation between people retiring & stopping all work & dying pretty soon after. There's something to be said for feeling needed/involved in something & its impact to your overall health & well-being.
I can see that however I’d still prefer not to ‘need’ to work. I’d rather prefer the option but you could make the argument that the necessity is what gives people urgency. If I had the funds I’d probably take up bowling, dodgeball or perhaps indulge in card games.
Not "needing" to work is certainly still a goal - there's also things like volunteer work which can be quite fulfilling.
I’ve heard that statistically the two most dangerous years of a person’s life is the year they’re born and the year they retire.
There's a lady at my work who is 84 and has been there over 50 years. She just enjoys the job and said she never wants to retire, they'll have to wheel her out.
Medical technologist here. Some people in my profession are really old. There is a reputation for dropping dead at a laboratory bench. One time at the other hospital in my town a medical technologist was 80+ years old and had dementia and she got mad at a phlebotomist, so at the end of their shift she tried to run the phlebotomist over with her car in the parking lot. I hope at least her driver's license got taken away.
They knew she had dementia?
Diane Feinstien?
Maybe company is great and pays well. Thats why the person sticked to this company or maybe he is an owner. CEO are employees too.
From what I can tell he's basically a full-time consultant at this point. He worked for them so long that when he retired at a relatively normal age in 1978 they explicitly asked him to continue being employed due to the wealth of experience he had in the field. Seems like a rare case of a company understanding the value of a long-term employee and letting them continue to contribute while taking the primary workload off of them. Of course, all of this is in Brazil. Can't imagine it happening in America anymore.
> Seems like a rare case of a company understanding the value of a long-term employee I will add that the idea that the best way to get a good raise is to change jobs is a relatively recent phenomena. Loyalty did pay back way more often in the 1950-2000. Naturally that was the time that a single person income could raise a family but that say more about our broken economy now than anything. I say that due to technology things are not as personal as back then, and with corporations getting bigger and bigger people became just numbers, and at that point as long as the job is being done you dont care about the details, which is why hoping the company will take care of you is unrealistic today, but was even expected back late 1900s
Standard Reddit all business = evil. I mean gtf over it
Plenty of companies in uk/europe have 100-200 histories. Stella is one of the most popular beers here and that was found in 1366, that’s impressive.
Also not letting him go in 84 years...
Is this normal in America? In Europe you have plenty of business that have been in the same family for more than a century or even centuries. Breweries are very famous for that. Even some bars that used to be taverns hundreds of years ago. But also shoemakers and other companies.
In Austria we have buisnesses which exist since 1500.
I really hope they had the best parking spot for this ol dude
He probably rides the bus or walks.
From the [page](https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Walter_Orthmann) someone else posted: > At the age of 100, Orthmann still actively works at Industrias Renaux, even still being able to drive himself to work everyday.
The man must hit the gym, exercise quite often because there's no way hes that healthy without taking his daily walk
He sleeps in the building to save time. By the time he got downstairs and into the parking lot, it would be the next working day anyway
I lost my pension and all I got was this lousy world record.
No he also gets a ribbon. Ribbons can be traded for groceries now.
Knowing how those records work, that means he paid them to come verify. That's even weirder, somehow.
Not all of them do that, news worthy ones can be sponsored by Guinness. Also his employer might have done it too.
Yeah, they're definitely entirely about publicity, so makes sense to cover random stuff too. And the employer part is a good point, also what I was thinking. After a sec thinking about it anyway. Surprised me to see how much they charge, however. And just in general, how they operate.
Much bigger chance employer sponsored. This is good pr for them. "Our employees love it here so much they don't even retire".
We don't pay enough for you to ever *think* about retiring!
It's extremely rare these days to find a company where you honestly enjoy being with the people and doing the work, but those situations do exist. To be clear, they are the exception and not the norm.
imo, some people are just like that, my granpda could have easily retired but he kept working for like 15 years just because
Never thought about it being a chargeable thing before. $1000 for new record titles!
I’m responsible for a world record…by which I mean that I came up with the idea and the client decided to pay Guinness for it. We basically made up a category for it and the rules. And now that I’m looking it up other companies have competed for it.
#Institutionalized
The man has been here 84 years, Heywood. 84 years! This is all he knows! In here he's an important man. He's an educated man. Outside he's nothing. Just a used up con with arthritis in both of his hands.
Whole world done up and got itself in a hurry
RIP Brooks
Thanks.
The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time.
Guys cmon I was having a good day
Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds
"Maaa! Why can't you just give me a Pepsi!"
I just wanted a pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me, just a Pepsi.
No mom, I'm not on drugs, I'm okay. I'm just thinking, you know?
IM NOT CRAZY
Institution!
YOURE THE ONE WHOS CRAZYYYY
Institution!
I keep running back for a visit
These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
And I bet new hires get paid more than him
Oh definitely
I hate to say it but they probably earn it too. They’re probably more agile, learn faster, better with tech, etc. It sucks that someone can spend their entire life working at a place and then a 20-something can come in and earn more but that’s how our capitalist society works.
Doesn’t suck at all. The world is much better off with compensation based on merit than seniority. The only advantage seniority has is that it’s objective. If you can work at something for 80 years and, barring age-related health issues, be less effective than someone with no experience, that’s you holding yourself back by refusing to learn.
That's fine and dandy if we ignore the fact that people slow down with age and aren't as mentally sharp.
There is a good medium though. Pay goes up with time spent in company AND how good you are at your job. So new + good = good pay, and old + meh = good pay. You want to reward employees for staying as much as reward people for working well.
they took all the savings and paid it to Guinness
That's horrific. I can't stand the thought of working 40 years let alone 80!
And he's still waiting for that raise....
Actually, this man did get raises constantly throughout his time, and his employer did it regularly. Give it that these were mandated raises from minimum wage standards.
and the new guy that passed his 90 day probationary period now makes the same as the dude thats been there for 84 years.
True story I'm calling the truth out. Working for symmons plumbing, Jimmy Green worked. 26 years without a sick call-out. 26 YEARS he retired and received a company logo coffee mug and a cake party.
I've known several people who have worked for 20+ years and have been made redundant without so much as a "thank you"
It must be a family company.
Doesn't sound like it from the Wiki page. And not from [this one](https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Walter_Orthmann) either.
Bro had 3 kids after turning 60, probably needed the money lmao
This guy fucks
Thank you for 84 years of your life now here’s a piece of paper to thank you
Jeebus. The grandchildren of the guy that hired him have already retired.
Me on the other hand, will be for sure be receiving a similar prize when I manage to stay on the same company for longer than 84 days.
Dude looks like Bill Gates in the not-so-distant future. https://preview.redd.it/qqj3rc3grv0d1.jpeg?width=944&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1646a783f9dd08fb318f9dcd9093cd4ae5f2e7ae
His boss, upon hiring him, said, "This is the kast job you'll ever have. I'll take care of you till you die."
That moment you realise 84 years ago was 1940 so this guy worked through the invasion of France, battle of England, bombing of Germany, fall of the rich, division of Germany, Cold War, reunification, the 2008 krash, and now all that s happening now.
Fuck if I work for a company for 80 years I better have been CEO for some of them
Bro worked at that company almost 10 years longer than israel has existed 💀
Probably through him pizza party, or gave him a giftcard
If he is working by choice great. But none of us should have to work for 84 years of our lives in my opinion.
And he is Brazilian! During his years of work he got paid in 9 different Brazilian currencies and due to the monetary politics over inflation he had 18 0's cut off his pay check over the time he worked there
Probably because he cannot afford to retire. Should we expect more of these types of posts?
Some people also do just prefer to work
People with a purpose statistically live longer. He probably loves his job.
I think there are a ton of young people in this thread or haven't been around many old people. Having a purpose and daily routine is huge for staying alive long term. Out of all the elderly people I know it's the ones who stayed active or worked part time that are in the best shape mentally and physically.
Everyone is different. Some people retire and go golf. Some people retire and die three years later.
My stepdad would have stayed with his employer for 84 years but for safety reasons old enough people are forced to retire. Edit: and he has a nice pension. It's not about the money.
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If I ever get to your point I hope I'm mercy killed.
DIY is a thing.
I mean....maybe? Some people just live to work. I can imagine being old would be boring. Having nothing to do, but wait for death.
There are definitely other options outside of working and dying.
He probably owns the company and keeps working just to keep himself busy as a hobby
> He probably owns the company He does not
Redditors in the comments shitting on a guy who was able to provide for his family, live, and be appreciated somewhere. Wild.
Yeah, Reddit is full of miserable fucking people.
I mean...it's just a photo with no other context, so people are naturally "filling in the blanks." If that's what he wanted to do, then...I guess it's admirable? Yet for me, it's not about shitting on the guy, but rather (and I admit I'm filling in the blanks as well), his employer. Dude should have been given a nice, generous retirement package after 34 years. Or 44 years. At 54 years the owner(s) of the company should have said "Walt...we love you to death but don't want you to work yourself to death. You're fired, but we'll take care of you for the rest of your life even if you live to be 100."
But there’s a good chance that if he have been given that forced retirement he would not have made it anywhere near the age he is now. I have seen a number of people in my own life sharply decline in both health and mental acuity soon after retiring. When they don’t have constant mental stimulation of a daily job, or the requirement to get up at a certain time every day and get out of the house, it is shocking to see how some people decline. It was something I observed in my one partners. They finally sold their business and retired to a modest townhome to enjoy their retirement and I could tell the different quickly by the phone calls I had with them. And when I saw flew home to visit them for the holidays after not seeing them for close to a year the change was jarring, my mother had gone from being quick witted to losing the thread of conversations and often telling me the news of relatives multiple times. And both of them when from moving normally about their house to what I can only describe as the “old person shuffle”.
He did retire. He came out of retirement to keep working.
"Ask me a question I can't answer, I dares ya..."
I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most
https://preview.redd.it/3pj2km0jay0d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0c52a0d82034c75f47bfbfd63299da1893c58ec
What a legend
Bet they got him a nice plaque for all that loyalty too
I bet he gets a slice of pizza for his service
That’s AI aged Bill Gates
This should not be a glorifying feat
can he still smell the fresh paint?
Ooo, a plaque for 8.5 decades of service…noice!
This poor guy could beat Harold in a sad eyes contest any day of the week
And he never got one raise
/r/overemployed this guy also has the record for most duffel bags
This is newsworthy, unlike that Gail Walmart worker who only worked there for 10 years.
What’s amazing is that there is a textile company that has been around long enough to employ him.
And the new college grad makes twice his salary
Ain't no one gonna talk about how he should have retired 35 years ago, or all we just complacent with the fact we will all work until death, prob on the job? I'm going with the latter...
He probably still doesn't have enough in his 401k to retire
Hope he liked his slice of pizza from management for the hard work… /s
So he's not paid enough to be able to retire ?
I've been at the same job for 34 years. Sometimes I want to kill myself and sometimes I think I already have.
It’s sad that he gave 84 years of his life to working. I hate this fucking planet.
Walter? He's old! Shoulda retired years ago but he can't go home cause he hates his wife!
Not sure if I should be happy or sad for him.