Retirement Thread

[KC Dan]

Originally Posted by RedRaider56

Yeah. I had given my notice in December to retire at the end of Jan. They came back and asked me to extend and I did, for another 60 days

A week before my final day, my boss came back and made me an offer to extend another 60 or 90 days. This being after I had told him I had no desire to extend for that long. 30
Days maybe. He and HR never came back with an offer for 30 days and the 60/90 day offer wasn’t worth me losing my sanity.

They basically had 48 hours for me to train/educate my replacement on customers and upcoming contract renewals

The poor kid was destined to failure.

I even asked my boss why they didn’t start serious extension talks earlier. He had no answer
Bottom line they figured I would do, being a nice guy etc

They are paying the price for their lack of long term vision now

Haha, they tried the exact same thing with me. I gave them 30 days extra after they offering me 60 extra days pay and 90 days extra health coverage. I only had about 8 hrs to turnover to a new guy. Needless to say that they are suffering mightily now.
All of the senior engineers under my charge have left the company since except two. The also called me and asked me if I had my files that they could obtain after I wiped my computer hard drive. No to that, lol.
We were in the black for 20 years and this past year, they are around 20 million dollars in the red and screwing their employees to clean their books up enough to get loans. They got rid of PTO, reduced 401k match and forced all to use at least two weeks of previously earned vacation and are cashing out the rest. Really sad to see what we built be dismantled. If it weren't for TSMC, they would be in more horrendous trouble than they are now.