anyone had a parent layed off?
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Mama is a teacher...so she bout that tenured life. She's a great teacher though so it's not like she would have to pull that card. Deep feelz for anybody's folks that have to go through that.
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Thankfully not. Both retired years ago. When you say laid off at a old age what do you mean? How close to retirement and what was the situation surrounding it? Can it be fought?
With regard to being out of work if they are over 50 it could go one of two ways (in the event they are financialy secure for the time being). My mother embraced it, my dad when he retired was intolerable. Some people just are not used to free time and tend to get frustrated. Was not pretty for a while
With regard to being out of work if they are over 50 it could go one of two ways (in the event they are financialy secure for the time being). My mother embraced it, my dad when he retired was intolerable. Some people just are not used to free time and tend to get frustrated. Was not pretty for a while
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When the economy went to shit in the late 2000's my dad lost his construction job and his house. The union was never able to find him a permanent job only a few weeks of work here and there. My dad has just been doing work independently and will get his full retirement benefits next year when he turns 62. I can't wait, he really deserves to retire after working his whole life to raise 6 kids
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My grandfather worked for a company that laid him off like 2 months before he was set to retire and lost his pension as a result. They did that to quite a few management guys there. Something in their contract about getting a pension at retirement but there was a loophole where they didn't have to pay as he technically didn't retire and fulfill his contract. Pretty shady shit.
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My Mom worked for Flour Daniel for 20 years from 1978 to 1998. She tried to get laid off for the last 5 years to collect unemployment. Even at her worst she was better than the others. She finally quit when she hit retirement age.
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That's fucked man. Good time to go postal imo.
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He was pretty bitter about it as I recall though I can't recall him actually ever saying anything to me about it. I was just a kid at the time.
He lived right next door to the place too. When the workers there went on strike a few years later, he opened his house for all of them and they'd come over and have coffee and then they'd go back and picket. He was popular there. Good man. A lot of my family worked at that place before and after they did that to him too.
I haven't thought of that in years, its bringing back some memories for me.
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I just can't believe someone could get away with that. Seems like it could've been fought.
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Thanks for the replies guys , basically they screwed my dad over big time . 20 years with the company , slowly let go of everyone In the most important department of the company. They had no means of laying him off and the way they did it was dirty. He is going to compile a wrong doing against them.
The worst part is he loses his 401k loan , had 1 year left until senior age. He said things will be fine with my parents though . Think I finally hit the point where I want to work even harder now to help them out until retirement.
The worst part is he loses his 401k loan , had 1 year left until senior age. He said things will be fine with my parents though . Think I finally hit the point where I want to work even harder now to help them out until retirement.
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Sort of. My dad used to get hired as a consultant, and his contracts were only so long before he had to find new work.
Once i reached high school he began to get really sick and he could only take certain jobs if they accommodated his illness.
I remember there was a stretch where he couldnt find work, maybe a year or two, and when he finally did, he had become too sick to take the job.
Once i reached high school he began to get really sick and he could only take certain jobs if they accommodated his illness.
I remember there was a stretch where he couldnt find work, maybe a year or two, and when he finally did, he had become too sick to take the job.
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Like I said, I was just a kid so there is likely much I'm leaving out of the story. I've heard it mentioned by my aunts and uncles a few times over the years though, the skeleton of the story is there.
I guess it wasn't the money, the pension was not a lot anyway, but more the morality of it. He felt more betrayed by a place he gave much of his life to than he actually cared about the money.
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An ex girlfriends dad got laid off when he was 45, 10 years from his planned retirement, gf was 20 at the time.
Seemed quite gloomy until he realized there was an enormous severance payment involved.
He managed to retire 10 years earlier and had enough to build a cinema and music room extension to their house.
Seemed quite gloomy until he realized there was an enormous severance payment involved.
He managed to retire 10 years earlier and had enough to build a cinema and music room extension to their house.
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This happened to my father in around 2010 or so. He was like 53, with 31 years in the company when he was made redundant...his only job since graduating university and coming to UK. He was working there as an engineer almost his entire working life. It was a major international telecoms company.
They basically shut down their operations in UK in favour of india and made everyone redundant. They gave him a package of around 1.5yrs salary.
He decided to become a teacher but gave up when he spent 2 weeks actually teaching kids and realised not everyone was as well behaved anr as intelligent as his own kids were haha.
He then got another job fixing DVRs which he hated so much.
Now he works for rolls royce designing the electronics for nuclear submarines. Jobs with military applications were his lifeline because it's one of the only jobs they still hire British people to do. It worked out well. Another 5 yrs till retirement tho.
They basically shut down their operations in UK in favour of india and made everyone redundant. They gave him a package of around 1.5yrs salary.
He decided to become a teacher but gave up when he spent 2 weeks actually teaching kids and realised not everyone was as well behaved anr as intelligent as his own kids were haha.
He then got another job fixing DVRs which he hated so much.
Now he works for rolls royce designing the electronics for nuclear submarines. Jobs with military applications were his lifeline because it's one of the only jobs they still hire British people to do. It worked out well. Another 5 yrs till retirement tho.
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My dad was an operating engineer and he decided to retire at 62 in 1980 when the economy was down. He figured the younger guys needed the jobs but he still got called because he was a good operator.
My mother was a registered nurse and hospitals were calling her well into her 70s. Two of them told her she wouldn't have to do anything but sit at a desk. They have to have an RN on duty on every floor. Most nursing students are Licensed Practical Nurses these days because the education is shorter.
I even got one call 2 years after she died.
My mother was a registered nurse and hospitals were calling her well into her 70s. Two of them told her she wouldn't have to do anything but sit at a desk. They have to have an RN on duty on every floor. Most nursing students are Licensed Practical Nurses these days because the education is shorter.
I even got one call 2 years after she died.
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There must be more to it. Otherwise thats lawsuit worthy. In my industry after 5 work years (not calendar years) of service you are vested in your pension. If i worked for 29.9 years and was laid off and they said sorry no pension id be dialing 1-800-call-sam in a blink of an eye.
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Well, I was like 6 years old when it happened and my grandfather has been dead for over 20 years. I never heard from anyone that anything happened but my grandfather getting shafted.
His pension kicked in at retirement. Technically he didn't retire, he was laid off, so he didn't fulfill his contractual obligation. He got no pension. That's all I can tell you. I know he wasn't fired for a performance issue or said the wrong thing to the wrong person. I know he was respected where he was. He was just part of a massive layoff and it happened to be months before he would have retired.
