“If you are eligible to retire and can afford it, do it—especially if you are working for a lefty corporation or institution.”
That is the advice that we are giving our younger relatives in their mid to late 50’s age wise.
I was 57 with 30+ years with my company, and they offered a great early out program with great benefits at the end of a calendar year. I just had to add some non disclosure forms and a signed pledge not to work for a competitive company for one year past my retirement date.
So, I took it and that probably saved me from a stroke or heart attack as the corporation went after those who didn’t take the early out. In the first 6 months after the big let out early events, if you didn’t have an Ivy League degree, you basically got walking orders. People were handed an empty Kinko’s box by security guys (retired cops, MPs and FBI) as they came into the buildings where they worked.
The employees were told to put their personal belongings into the Kinko box, hand it to their new security buddy and go to the parking lot. Their new security buddies put the Kinko boxes into the soon to be former employees’s vehicles. The soon to be former employees signed a good bye form, and they became former employees. Most got a termination check at that time.
Then, they got into their vehicles and drove out a new one way out of the parking lot with exits on the company’s roads. The city where they worked had blocked any parking on the city’s exit streets for about 2 blocks. Cops were on the street making sure no former employees stopped close to the company’s grounds.
A couple of years later most of the company went bankrupt, and the so called survivors became the new walking wounded.
Sundown at Coffin Rock… Did you and your grand dad have a nice walk?.. “Yes,” the boy answered, opening the refrigerator. “You can call Agent Goodwin tomorrow. Gramps finally showed me where it is.”
The Price of Free Corn.. The allegory of the pigs has a serious moral lesson. This story is about federal money being used to bait, trap and enslave a once free and independent people.
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