“They once employed 30,000 workers, the current population is 65,000. Secretaries enrolled in their savings and security program retired with close to a million dollars - it was a gift to the capital district.”
I knew a guy who worked in the shop at GE Research his whole career and accumulated nearly a million dollars of GE stock over several decades.
Probably back when a million bucks was real money. Today, it doesn’t go far.
My wife had an assistant in the early 80s. Her husband was an engineer at NASA in Mt. View, CA. He got a job offer from Boeing and they moved to Seattle. The woman took a secretarial job at the then-new Microsoft. Guess who in the family made all the money?
Probably back when a million bucks was real money. Today, it doesn’t go far.
My wife had an assistant in the early 80s. Her husband was an engineer at NASA in Mt. View, CA. He got a job offer from Boeing and they moved to Seattle. The woman took a secretarial job at the then-new Microsoft. Guess who in the family made all the money?