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My grandfather worked for GE his entire life after coming back from Korea in his early 20s, I was 6 in the early 90s when he finally retired at age 64/65 and th
by imbnwa 3y ago
My grandfather worked for GE his entire life after coming back from Korea in his early 20s, I was 6 in the early 90s when he finally retired at age 64/65 and the bosses came to his retirement dinner and gave him a gold watch. Can you imagine something like that happening today?
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- ghaff 3y agoI've been at a couple companies 10+ years (and a third almost that long) and have colleagues who are 20+ years but, yeah, it's rare today--certainly in the tech industry, probably more common elsewhere.
- phendrenad2 3y agoMakes me wonder what changed. Was it a bad deal for employers? Employees? Or did we just collectively decide to stop doing that for no reason?
- TingPing 3y agoThe whole corporate and government mindset changed, largely after Regan, focusing on funneling wealth upwards. Those decisions were never reversed so here we are. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reaganomics.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reaganomics.asp