Retirement is great!

Albermarle

 Last month my line manager, who worked 4 compressed days a week, and his line manager were both made redundant. I was gutted that I didn't win that lottery.

Maybe a problem with being too good at your job.

The irony in these situations is often the ones who get made redundant, are gutted as they had not expected it/not planned for it/see it as a personal blow to their ego, and the ones remaining wish it was them.

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Albermarle said:

 Last month my line manager, who worked 4 compressed days a week, and his line manager were both made redundant. I was gutted that I didn't win that lottery.

Maybe a problem with being too good at your job.

The irony in these situations is often the ones who get made redundant, are gutted as they had not expected it/not planned for it/see it as a personal blow to their ego, and the ones remaining wish it was them.

In my former line of work it wasn’t a case of who’s is good at their job, it was how much salary you was getting. The people on the highest salary got the chop first.

 

garyelder

I retired over 2 years ago sold a property to fund me until I want to take my pension I’m nearly 62, I find the years fly I want them to slow down got 3 holidays booked plus got a caravan in Norfolk do a bit of gardening which keeps me busy have to juggle around the holidays 
arrange curry nights with different bunch of guys and so plenty of beer nights plus go to the gym
blimey so busy but can’t beat it
wife gets her Lloyds pension December at 60 but she loves working at a school looking after the young ones 

Albermarle

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Albermarle said:

 Last month my line manager, who worked 4 compressed days a week, and his line manager were both made redundant. I was gutted that I didn't win that lottery.

Maybe a problem with being too good at your job.

The irony in these situations is often the ones who get made redundant, are gutted as they had not expected it/not planned for it/see it as a personal blow to their ego, and the ones remaining wish it was them.

In my former line of work it wasn’t a case of who’s is good at their job, it was how much salary you was getting. The people on the highest salary got the chop first.

 

Well my experience was the opposite. The ones who rubbed up people the wrong way and kept arguing about everything to a daft degree, were invariably the ones out of the door first.

MallyGirl

Albermarle said:

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Albermarle said:

 Last month my line manager, who worked 4 compressed days a week, and his line manager were both made redundant. I was gutted that I didn't win that lottery.

Maybe a problem with being too good at your job.

The irony in these situations is often the ones who get made redundant, are gutted as they had not expected it/not planned for it/see it as a personal blow to their ego, and the ones remaining wish it was them.

In my former line of work it wasn’t a case of who’s is good at their job, it was how much salary you was getting. The people on the highest salary got the chop first. 

Well my experience was the opposite. The ones who rubbed up people the wrong way and kept arguing about everything to a daft degree, were invariably the ones out of the door first.

My line manager was certainly one of those! I am just holding the thought that 19 years service is too much to walk away from at this point