RE: joke time
February 6, 2022 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2022 at 2:02 pm by Fireball.)
(February 6, 2022 at 1:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 6, 2022 at 11:46 am)Fireball Wrote: A lot of people are carrying the load for other people. When I was still working, I wasn't just burning the candle at both ends, I broke it in half so that I could double my output. I retired at 62, and am pretty sure that if I had waited to 65, I wouldn't have made it. It was about 1.5 years before I recovered some sense of well-being (now I'm 69). There were 3 people doing what I used to do, after I retired.
That’s management for you - why lay out pay and benefits for two people when your can save money by working one person like a dray horse?
Boru
So true. I was up for a promotion that would have netted ~ $25k more a year, but after the mismanagement dragging their feet for over 2 years, I decided that retiring was the thing to do. At 62 years of age, I doubt that I would have been able to find another job like that. Interestingly, the contracts I worked on allowed the company to charge for the number of people working on them (within limits, obviously). So, they make more money on the three who replaced me. The irony.
BoT, looks like the joke was on me!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.