Mine spent 30 years at the same company, was a pro-capitalist hardworking bootstrap kind of guy that would always defend the boss. Was their best worker and the only guy who knew how to do anything because the company was too cheap to train anyone new.
Long story short, a new boss bought the company one day, fucked everything up, ripped the copper out of the walls, and the company went bankrupt because of the new higher ups poor decisions (which involved wasting money by making the company too top heavy, the usual corporate bs)
So my dad's gift for 30 years of work was a redundancy!
On the plus side, he's sort of become more anti-capitalist and doesn't shit on my leftist ideas anymore.
I can’t help but feel for boomers. My dad is a pretty apolitical in terms of electoral politics but will be the first one to defend the business in whatever conversation
Mine worked for a mega corp for 20+ years as a scientist, won awards for what he did, was with them to the hilt
His role got reduced and altered against his desires, and then the company relocated the site he worked at from being a 10 minute drive away to being 1,200+ miles away
Then they jerked him around on severance for a year, the amount in question being absolutely trivial for a company their size
Don't lick boots, don't work overtime, and don't play nice with corporations kids because they'll happily fire you out of a cannon if it means they can save some money and still seem to get by
Mine spent 30 years at the same company, was a pro-capitalist hardworking bootstrap kind of guy that would always defend the boss. Was their best worker and the only guy who knew how to do anything because the company was too cheap to train anyone new.
Long story short, a new boss bought the company one day, fucked everything up, ripped the copper out of the walls, and the company went bankrupt because of the new higher ups poor decisions (which involved wasting money by making the company too top heavy, the usual corporate bs)
So my dad's gift for 30 years of work was a redundancy!
On the plus side, he's sort of become more anti-capitalist and doesn't shit on my leftist ideas anymore.
I can’t help but feel for boomers. My dad is a pretty apolitical in terms of electoral politics but will be the first one to defend the business in whatever conversation
Sad stuff
Mine worked for a mega corp for 20+ years as a scientist, won awards for what he did, was with them to the hilt
His role got reduced and altered against his desires, and then the company relocated the site he worked at from being a 10 minute drive away to being 1,200+ miles away
Then they jerked him around on severance for a year, the amount in question being absolutely trivial for a company their size
Don't lick boots, don't work overtime, and don't play nice with corporations kids because they'll happily fire you out of a cannon if it means they can save some money and still seem to get by