Herman by Jim Unger for March 06, 2020

That’s pretty much what happened to me 25 years ago! I was lucky, the new company was much better.

Glad I was able to keep my 401K going from one company to another after the layoff. Retirement is sweet.

You’re giving me $300 to take Old George?

Is the suit included?

I’ll take two!!

Does he do windows?

$325.00?

Work hard, get good at your job, get promoted and get pay raises and after 20 years, Oops you’re too expensive. We can start two college kids to take your place and give them only two weeks’ vacation instead of the 5 you’re getting and all those benefits you’ve been grandfathered into, guess what? We don’t have to give them anymore either.

I know three people who got laid off from their jobs after 40 years. That’s loyalty for you.

It’s happened so many times in my career that the last time it happened, I had to console my boss. He was more upset about losing me than I was about losing the job.

At least your boss had some decent human emotions. What gets me is the expectations around cheerleading and buying into the corporate culture, despite the fact we know we are all disposable on a whim.

the average worker from mid-level to hourly is like a bullet: there’s always another being loaded even as one is fired.

I think you’d have to be “loaded” to continue working for that company! Go into business for yourself; start a “shell” company in the Bahamas; it worked for me!!!

When the current owner of the company where I work was showing around a relative he basically pointed me out and said “He came with the company, just like the rest of the office furniture.” If the place ever goes out of business, hopefully I will be sold off to a decent owner and not just shipped to the dump with the rest of the old discarded office equipment.

That is probably the value of his pension payout.. that the company hopes to recover.

Does he do windows?

He’s ‘as is’.

35 years and now the company is shutting down operations in the US. I can’t complain about my treatment, it was a great place to work, but who is going to hire a 60-something year old?

I dunno – looking a little long in the tooth, to me.