The Retirement Thread
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27 Nov
11:25am, 27 Nov 2024
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cathrobinson
117 weeks for me  lol
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27 Nov
11:40am, 27 Nov 2024
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Mandymoo
Also loving the countdowns. Was lucky enough that I was either paid overtime or give the time back |
27 Nov
11:45am, 27 Nov 2024
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westmoors
53 attendance days to go!
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27 Nov
12:08pm, 27 Nov 2024
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geordiegirl
Exciting times close retireees! My husband is still planning leaving in Jan/Feb. I am also one of those who works far too many hours largely as my workload is huge and I don’t like leaving things to finish if I can get it done as by the next day another dozen things have dropped. Even when I was a grade that paid overtime my boss refused as it was expected to show I was capable of taking on more work … promised grade increase never came. I’m still a grade lower than I should be and it makes you resent the job and why I will bail, if I don’t get the grade increase this year there will be serious discussions on me leaving next year too. My worry is the final salary pension might not be as good as it sounded, certainly isn’t to take it out and into a private pension. We’ll have another IFA meeting in the new year. |
27 Nov
12:16pm, 27 Nov 2024
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ThorntonRunner
I fought back against the expectation of regular overtime. Told my boss I'd signed a contract to sell 37 hours a week of my time to the company and anything else was over and above and at my discretion. Didn't make me popular with him (there were other issues between us as well - this is my boss for last 15 years of my 40 at the company), but by then my experience was important to them and I had no desire for advancement so we tolerated each other. My elder son is an instructor at an outdoor activity centre close to the lake district and my younger son has set himself up as a dog walker and sitter. Neither will make a fortune, but they're doing jobs they enjoy. |
27 Nov
12:24pm, 27 Nov 2024
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bigleggy
Did a very similar thing TR , and even when it was explained to me that it would hurt my chances of promotion, I still walked out at 5pm every evening. Was always accused in reviews of being 'unambitious' I used to correct them and say that it should read 'un-slavelike' Those ambitious types all got made redundant same time I did :-/ |
27 Nov
12:28pm, 27 Nov 2024
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Windsor Wool
I love to read stories like your sons @ThorntonRunner. Brilliant. I remember once being told by my boss that I was clearly a family man rather than a corporate one. It wasn’t meant as the compliment that I now look back on it as! |
27 Nov
12:33pm, 27 Nov 2024
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EvilPixie
Teaching contracts actually state you will work the hours required to do the job So all the evening weekend and holiday hours were unpaid If you calculated an hourly rate for a teacher it would be in single figures so well below minimum wage |
27 Nov
12:38pm, 27 Nov 2024
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Rosehip
We used to have time clocks and flexi time in the 80s, which was brilliant - every other Friday afternoon was an early finish But when all that went out of the window (we blamed too much American management involvement) I couldn't have coped with the extra expected hours, but negotiated to do early and late meetings from home. We used 'Sametime' a long while before zoom meetings etc became the norm (Singapore first thing, USA in the evenings) I'd have burnt out and been divorced long before I took VC if I hadn't Obviously the chemistry wasn't done from home and there were a *lot* of bloody longs days with recalcitrant reactions - but I was able to control the controllable hours. |
27 Nov
12:45pm, 27 Nov 2024
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jda
In theory we had hours to work but in reality it was always flexible, my first job we clocked in and out with flex-time so we could take off occasional days without eating into leave, and in Japan we filled in monthly time sheets but no-one noticed if and when we were there so we just made them up. Putting the effort in was always a personal thing really, you could coast but wouldn't make anything of your career and contracts don't always get renewed...
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