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Subject: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:30 AM Greetings: After thirty-seven and a half years year with the New York City public school system, yesterday -- June 18, 2009 -- was my last day of work. I ended exactly as I began, as a per diem substitute teacher. I spent yesterday morning watching a room of high school students take their New York State Regents Examinations in English, and I spent the afternoon grading some of their papers. That isn't very exciting work, but excitement is something I can do without at my age. Over the year I rose from per diem substitute to full time classroom teacher. Later I became a unit coordinator, sort of a foreman who was relieved of some of his teaching duties to do administrative work. As my career continued I became a teacher trainer, then a member of the development team for a new high school, a school based director of special programs, an assistant principal, and eventually a district based supervisor of special education. I worked in an office rather than a school, and classroom teaching had become a distant memory. Then in 2003 the school system underwent reorganization and I was laid off. Rather than face either demotion or unemployment, I put in my papers for retirement and started collecting a pension. I also found various part time jobs within the public school system. Most recently I have been working at the school I helped found in 1993. At first they paid me as a per diem assistant principal at $308 a day for up to forty days per school year. Then, with budget cuts throughout the system this past September, the principal said he could only pay me as a per diem teacher at $154 a day for doing essentially the same work, which was supervising the creation of individualized educational plans for students with disabilities. I decided to accept the 50% pay cut and tough it out for one more year. I turned 62 past February and became eligible to receive early Social Security payments. That's when I told the principal I would be calling it quits at the end of the current school year. The term officially ends next Friday, but that's only to hand out report cards and next year's programs. There are no more classes and no more exams. Thus, I am no longer needed. Shall I call the story of my career Rise and Fall, or does that sound too melodramatic? :-) --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: maeve Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:39 AM It sounds like you've had a full and absorbing career. You are still needed, by the way. You just need to discover where the need lies. Time for new adventures; congratulations! Best wishes, maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: fat B****rd Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:55 AM Enjoy your 'retirement' in any way you like. ATB from Charlie(3 years to go)Stenger |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: MartinRyan Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:59 AM Enjoy it. In my own case, at a similar age and with a rather similar career arc (don't think of it as rise and fall!), I find it a great help not to have work getting in the way of my other interests! Regards |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Micca Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:06 AM Steve, on to fresh foods and pastas new!! I have just over a year to go!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:18 AM Move to a small locale and work as a sub. Your experience is valuable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Beer Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:43 AM Retirement can be a lot of fun if you have things to do. All the very best in your new career. Beer (adrien) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: meself Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:56 AM Conratulations. Enjoy life. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: katlaughing Date: 19 Jun 09 - 10:14 AM Congrats and take a cue from Reginald Perrin and call it "Fall and Rise!" It's a new life! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 19 Jun 09 - 12:45 PM congratulations, enjoy your retirement - whatever form it takes. sandra (who retired Feb 07 & enjoys life!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Ebbie Date: 19 Jun 09 - 12:54 PM As a schoolteacher friend said after a year of retirement: "Haven't had a bad day yet!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: gnu Date: 19 Jun 09 - 01:19 PM I hope you enjoy it! I kinda like what Rapaire said... even if you just take work as a way of "travelling" or "vacation". Good luck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Will Fly Date: 19 Jun 09 - 01:23 PM Enjoy! I have just 10 weeks to go myself, and then I can devote 150% of my time to music and other important things, instead of just 100%! I've had 47 years of day work, on and off - most of it thoroughly enjoyable - and 44 years of evening work - mostly music. It'll be good to convert the day work into something else. Mind you, I've reckoned without my crafty son and his partner. They've known for ages that I my last day at work is 21st August, and have cunnningly arranged for my 2nd grandson to be born on 22nd. Or on 23rd (which is my 65th birthday bash). They obviously reckoned I'd have some spare time on my hands... Anyway - over to you - very best wishes for a happy retirement! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Rasener Date: 19 Jun 09 - 01:45 PM Good luck Steve. Go out and enjoy life while you can. The rise and fall reminds me of a happy little tune called The Rise & Fall Of Flingel Bunt - The Bootleg Shadows Les |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 19 Jun 09 - 01:50 PM Everyone, Thanks for all the encouraging words. I retired from full-time employment effective July 1, 2003. Since then I have held various part time or temporary assignments within the New York City public school system. In the fall of 2007, for example, I had a temporary job visiting sites where students were sent when they were on long term suspension from their regular schools, invariably for serious offenses. My job was to see if they were getting various mandated services to which they were entitled (e.g. speech therapy, counseling, resource room, ESL) and then report directly back to someone high up at the central Department of Education headquarters. I cannot divulge my findings -- they are a confidential work product used in defending against a lawsuit brought against the Department of Education by a child advocacy group -- but I can tell you it was a lot of fun playing "inspector general," even if it was for only two months. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Amos Date: 19 Jun 09 - 03:13 PM Steve: WHatever you do, stay engaged and connected with something, so you are connected and are paddling instead of drifiting. THere's a great world of stuff to paddle into. I wish you great joy and not a little jealousy! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: maire-aine Date: 19 Jun 09 - 04:39 PM Congratulations, Steve. I left the world of work on 31-Dec-08, after 36 years with the same company, and 20 years as a computer programmer. I took a buy-out offer that was too good to turn down. I had already been making plans to retire, so the timing was perfect. Maybe some day I'll go back to work part-time, but I'm not in a hurry. I am enjoying doing whatever I want, whenever I want, even if it's doing nothing at all. Hope you have a great retirement. In the immortal words of Charlie King, "our life is more than our work, and our work is more than our job". Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Riginslinger Date: 19 Jun 09 - 04:58 PM Steve - The budget cuts your school district suffered seem to describe the problems with schools all over the country. It just seems like there should be some way to fix it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Bobert Date: 19 Jun 09 - 05:29 PM Well, Steve, congrates... Take a coupl;e months off and then figure out what yer gonna do next... No slackin', ya hear??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: JennieG Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:23 PM Steve, just enjoy the fact that your time is your own and you are answerable to no one but yourself! I retired in December 2008 after working for just on 46 years, although that included a few years out of paid work having babies. Himself followed me in March this year. Since then we have been wondering how we ever found time to go to work. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 20 Jun 09 - 12:06 AM Greetings! Thanks again for all the encouraging words. As I said earlier, I've been into retirement for six years already, so I already know how to keep busy. For example, I'll be returning to the UK for another whirlwind tour with Anne Price in May 2010. I also serve on the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club board of directors and the People's Music Network steering committee, I am a member of the collective that runs the Peoples' Voice Cafe in New York City, I produce the annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash, and I recently coproduced a compilation CD called Open Your Hearts to he Paradise / The Best of the Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash 2001-2008. It's just that I thought I could hang onto part time work indefinitely. But now, with a 50% reduction in my daily pay, it's no longer worth my time. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Barry Finn Date: 20 Jun 09 - 01:48 AM "It's just that I thought I could hang onto part time work indefinitely. But now, with a 50% reduction in my daily pay, it's no longer worth my time." That's great Steve, now go spend 100% of your time on things worth spending it on & if you get paid for some of it, all the better, enjoy yourself while you can. Isn't that what you worked up to for a retirement plan? Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Backwoodsman Date: 20 Jun 09 - 06:03 AM What everyone else said. I've got 3 years to go and I can't wait to get out of that Fruitcake Farm where youth, a long brown tongue and a willingness to bury one's face in the right person's arse-crack are more highly valued than many years-worth of experience and knowledge. Roll On The Day! (Cue for a song?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 25 Jun 09 - 09:33 PM I'm going into work tomorrow (Friday, June 26) but not to work. They are having a luncheon in my honor. So who said there's no such thing as a free lunch? It me only took thirty-seven and a half years to get one. :-) --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: dick greenhaus Date: 25 Jun 09 - 10:24 PM Hop you have better luck staying retired than I have had--I think I'm on my fourth or fifth one now. Each one from a different line of work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 27 Jun 09 - 05:34 PM I do have to say my workmates gave me one really nice luncheon in the back room of a bar called Teddy's on North 8th and Berry Streets in Brooklyn, New York. I had a blackened catfish sandwich and a glass of chianti. They also gave me a beautiful leather bound book filled with photos and handwritten tributes, and the cover is a hand painted portrait of me done by Joe Matunis, one of Brooklyn's best known street artists and muralists. Click here to take a look. They also brought out a guitar and asked me to sing Where's My Bagel and Lox? and When I Was a Hippie in Arkansas. I honored the first request, but I substituted The October Waltz for the second. So ended my career, June 26, 2009. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 11 Mar 11 - 04:17 PM Even though I have been retired for nearly 21 months, I am still listed as an active employee on the website of the place where I used to work. Please take a look. What is that all about? --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: GUEST,ChanteyLass on cell Date: 11 Mar 11 - 11:05 PM That so? Demand back-pay for those 21 months! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Mar 11 - 05:42 AM & apart from working there, what else have you been doing? sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 14 Mar 11 - 10:47 AM Sandra, I have been so busy since retiring that I cannot figure out how I ever found the time to go to work. :-) My wife Marilyn and I spend much of our time with music-related activities. For example, both of us serve on the board of directors of the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club (Folk Music Society of New York, Inc.), and we are part of the volunteer collective that runs the Peoples' Voice Cafe. Until very recently, we also were members of the steering committee (board of directors) of the People's Music Network. Although we chose not to stand for re-election, we are still very active members of that organization. In addition, I produce the annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash, a multi-performer round robin concert. If that's not enough, I also perform about a dozen times a year, usually with my friend Anne Price, but sometimes on my own. I also arrange many of Anne's bookings and handle some of her publicity. As far as non-musical activities go, Marilyn and I do a lot of walking, mostly through the less known parts of the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn – we live in Queens – but sometimes we cross a bridge into Manhattan and a couple of times we have crossed another bridge into the Bronx. (There is no way for us to reach New York's fifth borough, Staten Island, on foot.) Finally, I spend time collecting and exhibiting United States postal history. Postal history is a branch of philately, and it is very much related stamp collecting. However, you leave the stamps on the original covers (envelopes) or cards with all the addresses, postmarks, and other markings intact. That way it is possible to study the rates, routes, and how the mail was processed. Oh, dear! I fear I have rambled on much longer than I had intended. :-) --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Bobert Date: 14 Mar 11 - 10:58 AM Welcome to retirement... It'll work yer butt off, that much is for sure... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: fat B****rd Date: 14 Mar 11 - 11:46 AM Ramble on, Steve. Good to hear you're good. Charlie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Crowhugger Date: 14 Mar 11 - 10:06 PM LOL, everyone I know who retired is twice as busy as they were while working. Some magic formula at work I guess. Have you got an up-to-date link to the tribute book you mentioned? I clicked the link but it gave me an error message. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Beer Date: 14 Mar 11 - 10:29 PM I retired at 54 now I am heading on 64 and my agenda book is so filled up that i like you Suffet wonder how the hell we got things done when we were at work. Life is good so enjoy it. Adrien |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 14 Mar 11 - 10:47 PM Crowhugger, That link was to my former website which is no longer active. I put a JPEG file of the painted cover on the homepage of my new website. Please click here to take a look. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Little Robyn Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:10 PM Me too! In another 8 hours!!! Today, Friday 18th March (here in NZ already). I reached 65 last November but stayed on until now. I don't want a fancy farewell - just a sing-along on the Weavery porch with my friends. I've been working at Hohepa Homes for almost 8 years, helping look after a group of adults with special needs. My original group consisted of 6 lovely wee Downsies who were all in their 50s or 60s but over the years they have gradually died until now there are only 2 of them left. The oldest is lying in bed most of the day, just skin and bones. If she makes it to May, she'll turn 70 but I'll be surprised if she does. That leaves just one and he's doing fine! But the place is changing, there are no vacancies for workers in the studios and I'm not prepared to do night shifts so I've become redundant. They don't call it that because they offer you other positions instead, but I'm not big enough to handle the new kids, the big strong boys who have just graduated from the Home School so I've elected to retire! I'll miss the residents - my friends who have lived there most of their lives, but I won't miss some of the staff! Time to go! See you later. Robyn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 29 Feb 12 - 11:09 PM So today I took a long walked and ended up back at the high school in Brooklyn, New York, from which I retired in 2009. It is a school I helped found in 1993. And guess what? A young woman whom I helped train when she was a first-year teacher is now the principal. That's further than I ever got in my career. At one time I was her boss, but if I had stayed on the job she would now be my boss. Has that actually happened to you or to someone you know? I'm curious. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Beer Date: 29 Feb 12 - 11:22 PM No, not me. But the question is...........How is retirement going? ad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: katlaughing Date: 29 Feb 12 - 11:40 PM Sounds as though she had a good trainer...resting on your laurels?:-) That's really neat! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 01 Mar 12 - 01:18 AM I'm also curious about your retirement. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Doug Chadwick Date: 01 Mar 12 - 02:50 AM It happened to me. The guy working under me, for five years or more, moved to a different job in the company and drew level with me. He came back into the department at a higher level than me but not directly in charge of me. Then the sections within the department were re-organised and he became my boss. I always tried to treat him with respect and he returned the favour when the roles were reversed. We always worked well together and, no matter who was in charge, we made a great team. As for retirement, at the time of writing this, I have 29 days 9 hours and 41 minutes to go. Not that I'm counting, of course. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 12 - 03:12 AM It happened to me, too, Steve. I trained a bright young man (23 years old) in about 1997, and I could see he was headed to the top. Sure enough, he became a manager in less than five years, just a while after I retired. I was a "shining star" when I started work in the 1970s, the youngest employee in the country to be in charge of a field office of my government agency. But I didn't like the politics of management, so I remained a working "officer in charge" and decided not to become a manager. I'm glad I didn't. I liked the work but didn't like management. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Suffet Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:52 AM Greetings: For those who have asked, here is a very quick summary of how I have been spending my retirement. I have been busy with music. Only a small portion of my time, however, has been devoted to making music. Much more of my time is spent: • Helping to run the Peoples' Voice Cafe in New York City. I am one of two people who currently do the booking, I am often the MC and/or the person who collects the money at the gate, and I sometimes run he sound system. • Serving on the board of directors of the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club / Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. This is my home club, so to speak. • Producing the annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. • Doing work for the People's Music Network. I had served on the PMN steering committee, as they call their board of directors, but I chose not to stand for re-election in 2011. I still manage to do some performing. For example, my singing partner Anne Price and I have four gigs in the UK this coming May. (We are not accepting any payment for ourselves. Whatever money we receive will be accepted as a donation to our home club.) --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Backwoodsman Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:57 AM 61 days of work at the nutbag-farm left. The brown-nosers are still brown-nosing their way upwards, faces buried in other, senior arse-cracks. Those of us with the knowledge and experience regarded as dozy old twats who aren't worth bothering with. Thank fuck I'll be out of it soon, I am so heartily sick and tired of those shit-eating tossers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Charmion Date: 01 Mar 12 - 08:26 AM I have eleven months to go to the day I pull pole and leave the Public Service of Canada. It will be a voluntary move, one that I can afford to make because I am married to an excellent person who wishes to remain at the grindstone for a while yet, and who will receive a comfortable annuity (popularly known as an army pension) on formal retirement. Before he came into my life, I was looking at hanging on grimly to whatever job I could get until I dropped in the traces. Like everyone else in this thread, I feel the generation gap yawning at my feet every working day. My immediate colleagues are Public Affairs Officers in the Canadian Forces, bright young folks seething with energy, brimming with ideas, and eager to take on the crises that come apparently weekly. Trouble is, they're all adrenalin addicts and I find it hard to get excited about any event that doesn't involve mass casualties. I look forward to going back to freelance work, which I will actually enjoy because I will be able to turn down work I don't want. I will feel entitled to take weekends off and holidays -- or even just spend my time on housework, long walks and music. Actually, I can hardly wait. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Charley Noble Date: 01 Mar 12 - 08:34 AM I've never been busier since I retired, whenever that was! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: gnu Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:28 PM Great update, Suffet. Glad to hear it. I was looking forward to buying something at the Jean Coutu pharmacy on Wednesday because it's Senior's Day there... my first one. But, my health insurance company invoice arrived today and because I am now a senior, I get to pay them $750 per yer more than last year. A 10% savings on asswipe doesn't seem like such a great deal after all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Beer Date: 01 Mar 12 - 11:07 PM Sounds like your getting fucked Gnu. But then we all will fall in the same spot ah!! ad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: JennieG Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:29 AM Retirement is good. While I keep busy with membership of two choirs and also belong to two quilting groups, and have two regular volunteer 'jobs' it's so much more relaxed and stress-free than my last job - where we were continually having to re-invent ourselves. I decided I was too old for that so started my retirement a wee bit earlier than I had planned, and have never regretted it. There's a lot to be said for not having to get up when it's still dark. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:46 AM what happened to my post? now what did I say? I retired 5 years ago at 55 on a good public service pension & have just reached 60 (11th Feb) & am waiting for my application for a Seniors Card to be processed. I spend 2 days a week at craft groups, & meet a former colleague for lunch every week so keep up with work gossip. I occasionally attend the office Christmas party, & visited the new office after my colleagues moved from the old premises, but that's as close to work I'll ever get! Tho I teach at one of my craft groups, so that is work but doesn't feel like it, cos it's volunteer work! When I have my Seniors card I can use a single concession ticket all day on all public transport (trains, buses & ferries) - I've been waiting 5 years for that card. Then I won't have to use 4 tickets each time I go to Craft Group, or 4 more tickets on the odd evenings I go out again ... Kind (older) friends gave me some pre-paid transport tickets for my birthday ... bless their little cotton socks. I can also get small discounts in shops etc. Wot fun. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Doug Chadwick Date: 02 Mar 12 - 07:40 AM Thank fuck I'll be out of it soon, I am so heartily sick and tired of those shit-eating tossers. That's sad BWM. I've been in my present position for over 30 years, with another 10 years before that doing similar work elsewhere. I've been planning my retirement since I was 21 but I can safely say that I enjoyed my job throughout the years. I'm looking forward to retirement immensely but I'll be leaving friends behind. I'm content that I will be leaving things in safe hands when I go. DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Backwoodsman Date: 02 Mar 12 - 08:23 AM Doug, I thoroughly enjoyed the first 44 years, hard work with great colleagues, and for most of the time, all pulling together and all reaping fair reward. But the past five-or-so have been a constant PITA, as those of us who can continue to do with little or no recognition, and the dodgers reap all the rewards by means of a policy of relentless bull-shitting, arse-licking, and plagiarism of the skills and ideas of us 'Do-ers'. But, as Eric Bogle says, "It's nearly over now, and now I'm easy". So fuck 'em all! :-) :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Doug Chadwick Date: 31 Mar 12 - 03:50 AM I've worked my last day. I'm now officially an ex-employee – someone who USED TO work in an oil refinery. I've been waiting for this day since I was 21. Here's to life as a pensioner! DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: MartinRyan Date: 31 Mar 12 - 04:10 AM Welcome to the gang! Enjoy it. Regards |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Allan C. Date: 31 Mar 12 - 06:34 AM Only 321 more days for me! But who's counting? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 31 Mar 12 - 07:15 AM I'm enjoying my retirement, fully retired on Mondays and working from Tuesday to Friday, which being self employed is fine - no Class 4 NIC from April!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Charmion Date: 31 Mar 12 - 09:51 AM Good for you, Doug! I've got 10 months to go ... and yes, I'm counting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: gnu Date: 31 Mar 12 - 11:39 AM Congrats! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: fat B****rd Date: 31 Mar 12 - 04:48 PM Outstanding Doug C, outstanding !! I've had me pension forecast and on july 3rd I shall be officialy retired. I'm thinking of giving up my paper round and devoting even more time to gardening. Happy days. PS Doug, are you a Grimsby person? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: Doug Chadwick Date: 01 Apr 12 - 04:07 AM Hi FB, Yes, Grimsby by adoption. I only came to Grimsby for the job. Now that is over and the kids have all moved away (3 in London and one in South Yorkshire), the world is our oyster and we could go where we please. However, I have fallen in love with Lincolnshire over the last 30 years, particularly the Wolds. What hidden gem they are. You can walk for miles in beautiful rolling hills and hardly meet a soul and yet, a mile or two either side and you can be down on the flat if the weather turns bad. I intend to spend lots of time there both on foot and by bike. We live on the edge of town, so I can walk out into the country directly from home but I have my bus pass and the bus into town passes my door. There are lots of opportunities to go out and make music around and about, so here I will stay, at least until one of the kids chooses my nursing home. DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Last day of work! From: JohnInKansas Date: 01 Apr 12 - 07:28 AM Someone up above mentioned: I get to pay them $750 per yer more than last year. A 10% savings on asswipe doesn't seem like such a great deal after all. All you gotta do is buy $7500 per year worth of asswipes to break even.(?) A recent article that I saw "somewhere" (I think the subject was "victimizing of the elderly?) claimed that an elderly lady was induced to "subscribe" to what apparently was an "asswipe of the month" plan under which they automatically sent her a fresh supply each month. When the "plan" was discovered, they estimated that she had a little over a 4 year supply on hand. Since she probably payed at least 3x (more likely 5x) what it was worth, she might have made break-even on your plan. It can be done! When you get old you have to consider all the possibilities. John |
