When I started to work for a company, the best on earth at the time, it was said out loud, do your job and you will be here for life. Well I made it 25 years. Saw the ax come by many times and missed my head, then that one time it didn't miss.

Turns out a lot of people were involuntary separated, (that's what they called it) at around 25 years. The company evidently did not want to chance that someone might get to full retirement age. I have been pretty fortunate in that I have made more money ever year after leaving company, but it felt like a betrayal in some sense. I gave my all to the company, and the bastards just pull the rug out from under you with a seconds hesitation.

But I did a days work, and they paid me for that day, so not harm no foul, is the way I see it.

It is sad though what a great company IBM used to be, and the globalist fucked it up. There used be be a real sense of corporate citizenship, and then they started offshoring jobs. I saw the other day where the huge plant in Rochester, Mn was sold. This was a huge facility, and now it gone.

When I started work for a company, the best on earth at the time, it was said out loud, do your job and you will be here for life. Well I made it 25 years. Saw the ax come by many times and missed my head, then that one time it didn't miss.

Turns out a lot of people were involuntary separated, (that's what they called it) at around 25 years. The company evidently did not want to chance that someone might get to full retirement age. I have been pretty fortunate in that I have made more money ever year after leaving company, but it felt like a betrayal in some sense. I gave my all to the company, and the bastards just pull the rug out from under you with a seconds hesitation.

But I did a days work, and they paid me for that day, so not harm no foul, is the way I see it.