My grandfather was an aeronautical engineer who spent most of his career at one company - he joined early enough that he was friendly with the founder. That did

My grandfather was an aeronautical engineer who spent most of his career at one company - he joined early enough that he was friendly with the founder. That didn't stop them from laying him off right before he would have been able to collect his pension. (They did this with their other older engineers as well). This was around the end of the cold war when that whole sector was shrinking. Say what you will about unions, but they do exist for a reason.