I did get pension-whipped back in those days but the longest tenure I achieved was 15 years between layoffs.
Did 25+ with GE until I couldn’t take it anymore.
Did 12+ with the last until I couldn’t take it anymore.
We’ll see how the current one does....I only need 9 more years to the end of the line.
22 years USN, 25 years with a truly great company. Retired and loving it.
I’ve posted before on related threads that during/after the 2007/2008 start of the Greater Depression many companies simply traded staffs in terms of senior workers (to re-set salaries and benefits like accrued vacation time). Anyone I knew who found jobs in their fields after getting laid off (including people who found the same exact work) took pay cuts and went back to “start” in terms of accruing vacation time. The Greater Depression was used as a pretense to adjust salaries for many people to the “new normal”...