Longest time in one job

[homerdog]

Fair Isle?

Ha! No, although I sailed past it on numerous occasions!

 

[Blue Mist]

The old man spoke up in a bar
Said I'd never been prison
A lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

30 years as a Prison Officer. Didn’t realise the stress levels I’d been under till I took early retirement. Couldn’t have coped on the wings till I’m 68, retirement age, with the levels of violence towards staff.

That’s amazing you did 30 years, most of my family have and are working as prison officers, including 3 who are in the Australian prison service.

I take my hat off to you!

 

[BimboBob]

Ha! No, although I sailed past it on numerous occasions!

What do I win?

 

[homerdog]

What do I win?

A new jumper!

 

[Barcon]

Slightly off-topic but I hate that phrase “round of toast”, it’s so vague. You’ve quantified the eggs and sausages, but have left us guessing on the size of toaster you own, which is probably huge being that side of the Atlantic (I also hate the use of the word “pond” here).

>>> off to the appropriate thread >>>

It's a four slice toaster (as I'm sure you imagined) but it holds normal size slices (rounds) of bread. For clarity, I had two slices.

 

[stonerblue]

Nearly 11 years, and I have taken voluntary redundancy I leave at the end of the month buzzing. Straight into a new job 5th of Jan no messing about.

Nice. Bit of redundancy money is great if you get another job straight away.

 

[stonerblue]

Six months at Refuge Assurance on Oxford Road in Manchester, then joined North West Water, where I worked for 39 years and 9 months.

Opted for redundancy with 12 month's tax free redundancy offer. I could have stayed another three months and missed out on redundancy but would have got to go on a freebie overnight stay with meal at a posh hotel for my long service award. This got cancelled anyway because of Covid.

Retired at 59 with a decent pension.

My Dad worked for Refuge years ago after being laid off from engineering factory. Be around 1980

 

[stonerblue]

It's a four slice toaster (as I'm sure you imagined) but it holds normal size slices (rounds) of bread. For clarity, I had two slices.

My piece of shit toaster doesn't fit any sliced bread. I mean, who the fuck designs a toaster too small? Bastards.

 

[Paladin]

My Dad worked for Refuge years ago after being laid off from engineering factory. Be around 1980

I was there from August '79 to December '79. They took me in the expectancy that I would pass my A levels, which I didn't. Lovely building though, and I sometimes go back for a bite to eat. Unfortunately not very often at their prices.

 

[Barcon]

My piece of shit toaster doesn't fit any sliced bread. I mean, who the fuck designs a toaster too small? Bastards.

Chinese. They're tiny.

 

[Hiley rated]

Self employed massage therapist, just into my 34th year. Hopefully retire in two more years. Started aged 22.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

9 years at Microsoft - I liked my manager and the excellent calibre of most of my colleagues.

In retrospect - I should have left Microsoft after 2 years or so - their stock was hugely under-performant as compared to their competitors circa 1999.

It's a huge mistake to be loyal to your company - in almost all cases, at least as an American - your continued employment is purely transactional. There's zero loyalty to you if times are bad or if there's a better alternative to keeping you as an employee.