Retirement Thread

[RedRaider56]

So I'm 12 days into this retirement thing and I find myself getting a lot of things accomplished around the house. Primarily all having to do with landscaping chores that have been put off the the last 2-3 years.

I find myself sleeping better, calmer demeanor, less stress & worry. (taking stock market fluctuations out of the equation).

The funniest thing about the whole situation is I heard that the person that was hired to replace me, quit after 10 days. Underestimated the amount of work that had to be done AND had enough of my old boss already

That made me laugh....

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by RedRaider56

So I'm 12 days into this retirement thing and I find myself getting a lot of things accomplished around the house. Primarily all having to do with landscaping chores that have been put off the the last 2-3 years.

I find myself sleeping better, calmer demeanor, less stress & worry. (taking stock market fluctuations out of the equation).

The funniest thing about the whole situation is I heard that the person that was hired to replace me, quit after 10 days. Underestimated the amount of work that had to be done AND had enough of my old boss already

That made me laugh....

My problem was that it took them 18 months to find someone who had the breadth of knowledge/experience that I had because I had assumed some additional roles that extended beyond my normal job position.

In the end they took a person who was in Accounting and slid that person into my job.....and they agreed to take the additional duties I had assumed and put them on a different team member.

[RedRaider56]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

My problem was that it took them 18 months to find someone who had the breadth of knowledge/experience that I had because I had assumed some additional roles that extended beyond my normal job position.

In the end they took a person who was in Accounting and slid that person into my job.....and they agreed to take the additional duties I had assumed and put them on a different team member.

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

[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.

[RedRaider56]

Originally Posted by KC Dan

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.

Well my ex-company will survive without me, but sorry to hear about your old one. That is terrible.