Retirement gratitude
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So I had somebody retire today. I've known him for 35 years. He worked in the UK, and when he announced he was going at his request we said he could come over here and work in the US for a week so he could say his goodbyes. I got a card, and managed to raise nearly $300 for a gift, and we took him out for lunch twice with other members of the team.
The CEO also arranged for him to be allowed to attend a second retirement dinner (quite a grand affair) in the US as well as the UK one he'd already attended.
After I'd said goodbye (online) today, a couple of hours later my boss forwarded me a message he'd sent to the CEO, COO and him, basically complaining that none of them had bothered to say goodbye today and they didn't care about him as a person.
WTF.
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Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Retirement gratitude:
That'll teach the brass to pretend to care.
Well, they'll care now. Particularly if he needs a bit of a favour, which quite often happens after people retire.
Burning bridges with no benefit is never a particularly smart move.
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Agreed.
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I remember when a particularly useless low-level co-worker retired, and a certain vice president wrote a long, glowing goodbye, reminiscing about all the stuff they'd gone through together. I was taken aback at choosing that person get so nostalgic over. Then a few months later that VP retired, and she wrote a farewell email to everybody that included a brag about all the money she made in her career there. This was a person who, when addressing the company before, had a very carefully tended air of humility. I'd had quite a lot of respect for this VP, before she shattered the mystique by being herself a couple times.
