LewPort71 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 In 1975 I started working for company U in SE Ohio, then was transferred to NE Ohio and company E bought the division of company U that I worked for. Stayed there until 1988 when company E decided to send me to WV. Which in the long run was a good deal since the plant in NE Ohio has been closed for several years. Been in WV since 1988. In 2005 company G bought the WV plant and I have continued with them until now. I am in the lab and test materials in the ferroalloy industry. It is kinda funny that I am in the lab for 10 hours a day, since I generally disliked labs in college. So I have been working in the same field for 38 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 22 years this past February. Yikes... I am only... I say only 45 too... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
major Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Going on 14 years with current employer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kegtapr Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 5 years with my first company, 10 years with my current. I don't like change, will be staying a lot longer if I can. Just took a new position within the company and there is more room for upward mobility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 39 years at GE. Lost 6.5 on downsizing. 2 years till retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 As I moved along the public education career ladder from high school teacher to Superintendent of Schools I had occasion to move too many times. The impact mill speaks of could be uprooting family from schools, church and other relationships to the extent that when they are on their own later in life they don't actually have a "home town" to relate to as is the case with many families. Friends, familiar places, etc. are lost by moving from town to town/job to job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) 23 years, 6 months, 5 days with a company outside Rochester. 9 months contract before that. Never Once called in sick. Laid off last December. Used to tell my co-workers "what we do isn't fun but it isn't work. landscaping, farming, that's work." I'm landscaping. now. i hate being right. Edited June 29, 2013 by Steve O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowgirlsFan Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 37 years as of March 3 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 As I mentioned 12 years at current job. When I worked in restaurants prior I worked at probably 20 places in 25 years. Oh and I'll save you guys from racking your brains with witty remarks and say this. I kept moving around because I got tired of cleaning the same fryolator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFFALOKIE Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 13 years. I wish I made more money, but I truly enjoy my work most of the time. We are a niche business and havent had much success in our attempts at diversification. No one else in the world does what we do, which is awesome, but it could hurt me if/when I have to hunt for a job in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 13 years. I wish I made more money, but I truly enjoy my work most of the time. We are a niche business and havent had much success in our attempts at diversification. No one else in the world does what we do, which is awesome, but it could hurt me if/when I have to hunt for a job in the future. Same with my place of employment. We're a small niche factory that works with steel molds as well as plastic injection molding. Not many places in the country like ours, but with China stealing most of this business it's really tough to compete. We're keeping our head above water, but it's becoming tougher every year to survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowery4 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 8 years and that was working for family, but have been an artist for more than 30 now which is sort of a lot of work. I have had more than 40 job, jobs in my life (I have been in the new economy almost all my life it seems). But it is okay, makes me nervous at times about older age but I always seem to get by and be happy, so there is that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 35 years with United Airlines. I turned 55 and 3 weeks later they filed CH 11. Retired in 2003, they dumped our pensions into PBGC in 2004 , I had no idea what PBGC was, or that United could do such a thing when I decided to retire. Same thing happened to many WNY'er's in the Steel & Auto industries. So they go thru "Bankruptcy," emerge as the "new" United Airlines and suddenly have Billions to spend on new 787's & A-350's. WTF!!! I was blessed, found another job (56 years old) and have been there 9.5 so far. Hopefully I'll try to really retire in the next year or two with a small State Pension-unless they go broke too!. so were you screwed out of your pension? Sorry I don't know what PBGC means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsWatch Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 7 years for me at Raytheon. Got ill, dealt with it on job and then government pulled my clearance I had maintained off and on for 20+ years due to insomnia which investigator classified as 'mental illness' despite medical documentation and I lost my job. Told that if Raytheon had laid me off for same reason it is illegal but government can and did violate its own rules (one investigator stated that they ignore rules they do not agree with and put false statements on forms) and then cloaked it as 'clearance required for details' and told 'only appeal possible is internal and all attempts will be denied' making it impossible for me to work in same industry. Later found out that all details including customer who was supposed to be TS/SCI is available in security clearance file anyone with any ability to look up clearance information including personnel offices by people w/no clearances. Oh and PBGC stands for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 'which protects the retirement incomes of more than 44 million American workers' and allows corporations to dump pension agreements made with employees for cents on the dollar with government providing pension benefits significantly less than originally promised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 2years till retirement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 The PBGC is a relic of political patronage to unions from the 70's. It's an absolute abomination funded with tax-payer dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 The PBGC is a relic of political patronage to unions from the 70's. It's an absolute abomination funded with tax-payer dollars. So instead of something, even if it is pennies on the dollar. They should have got nothing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 So instead of something, even if it is pennies on the dollar. They should have got nothing? That's what happens when companies go through bankruptsy. It's one of the reasons pension systems aren't generally viable. Don't like it? Too bad, you get what you bargain for; and sometimes what you inadvertantly bargain for if a failed pension system from a company that can't afford it's obligations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 That's what happens when companies go through bankruptsy. It's one of the reasons pension systems aren't generally viable. Don't like it? Too bad, you get what you bargain for; and sometimes what you inadvertantly bargain for if a failed pension system from a company that can't afford it's obligations. So then he should get a free pass on his personal unsecured debt? No dragging him to court to get a judgement. Don't like? Don't offer the credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 So then he should get a free pass on his personal unsecured debt? No dragging him to court to get a judgement. Don't like? Don't offer the credit. Sure, if he qualifies for bankruptsy and goes through the proceedings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 (edited) Sure, if he qualifies for bankruptsy and goes through the proceedings. K. Please fix that pesky "s" to a "c". You are creeping me out. :-P Edited July 2, 2013 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 K. Please fix that pesky "s" to a "c". You are creeping me out. :-P Bleh. I make that typo constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Large Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 10 years at my current employer, one move internally. My plan right now is to be resigning from this job 7/1/2013 and moving onto a new chapter in my work life, something I like instead of just for money- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Your late. It's July 2 nd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Your late. It's July 2 nd ROFLMAO! Too funny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWVaBeach Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 20+ years in the Navy & 14+ years at my current job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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