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Sorry to hear that. Out of curiosity, could you clarify what 'thought that' was, or what contributed to stress? Job hopping or staying?

lazide 5y ago
They had full insurance through their employer, thought the employer would have their back if something happened, then..... For person 1, their wife got cancer. The wife was covered through their insurance plan, and the HR department saw that it was likely to be very, very expensive to cover them, so they started a program of systematic harassment against person 1 until they resigned. The wife died of cancer shortly afterwards, but not until racking several hundred thousand dollars worth of medical bills. Her death was partially due to lack of coverage and stress resulting in difficulty in effective treatment. Person 1 got a heart attack and died within 2 years of resigning, and roughly a year after his wife died. The employer was a small municipal government in California. For person 2, the employer was attempting to makeup a cash shortfall, and was pressuring a number of employees to accept early retirement (at greatly reduced payout for their plan) or quit, especially older employees. Management in a number of divisions started to go around and pressure employees over 55 (quite obviously) to take the buyout, and for those who wouldn't, they started to apply tougher and tougher (and obviously unfair) work standards to them so they could fire them or push them out, which they did to several people who I did not know successfully. Several friends ended up taking the offer and quitting because they saw the writing on the wall, one of them, who stayed on roughly 6 months past the others quitting, had a stroke on the job due to stress and died. He stayed because he felt he didn't have much choice as he was the bread earner in the family, and they had not hit the point he would get a meaningful payout on his retirement, but was too old to go somewhere else (he was in his late 50's). The second one, my mother was one of the ones who took the early payout, and I'm glad she did. She was having heart arrhythmias due to the stress. Magically they cleared up within a month of leaving, and she hasn't had a problem since. She lost somewhere on the order of 50k from her retirement benefits because of it, however. That said, one of my grandfathers worked for a union and a major shipyard in the 50-70's, and his pension and retirement medical coverage had his back faithfully and with good coverage until he died - at 96. So it isn't all bad. It is a lot of faith to place in an organization however.

lazide 5y ago

They had full insurance through their employer, thought the employer would have their back if something happened, then..... For person 1, their wife got cancer. The wife was covered through their insurance plan, and the HR department saw that it was likely to be very, very expensive to cover them, so they started a program of systematic harassment against person 1 until they resigned. The wife died of cancer shortly afterwards, but not until racking several hundred thousand dollars worth of medical bills. Her death was partially due to lack of coverage and stress resulting in difficulty in effective treatment. Person 1 got a heart attack and died within 2 years of resigning, and roughly a year after his wife died. The employer was a small municipal government in California. For person 2, the employer was attempting to makeup a cash shortfall, and was pressuring a number of employees to accept early retirement (at greatly reduced payout for their plan) or quit, especially older employees. Management in a number of divisions started to go around and pressure employees over 55 (quite obviously) to take the buyout, and for those who wouldn't, they started to apply tougher and tougher (and obviously unfair) work standards to them so they could fire them or push them out, which they did to several people who I did not know successfully. Several friends ended up taking the offer and quitting because they saw the writing on the wall, one of them, who stayed on roughly 6 months past the others quitting, had a stroke on the job due to stress and died. He stayed because he felt he didn't have much choice as he was the bread earner in the family, and they had not hit the point he would get a meaningful payout on his retirement, but was too old to go somewhere else (he was in his late 50's). The second one, my mother was one of the ones who took the early payout, and I'm glad she did. She was having heart arrhythmias due to the stress. Magically they cleared up within a month of leaving, and she hasn't had a problem since. She lost somewhere on the order of 50k from her retirement benefits because of it, however. That said, one of my grandfathers worked for a union and a major shipyard in the 50-70's, and his pension and retirement medical coverage had his back faithfully and with good coverage until he died - at 96. So it isn't all bad. It is a lot of faith to place in an organization however.