The Retirement Thread
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10 Feb
7:12pm, 10 Feb 2025
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Sigh
The place I used to work is on my regular 5k route from home, but that's hardly surprising since it's a small town. I used to run past it when I worked there - and not think about work - so it doesn't feel any different in retirement.
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10 Feb
7:46pm, 10 Feb 2025
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Flatlander
I've never been back to my old place of work - except as a patient. 
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10 Feb
8:01pm, 10 Feb 2025
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Velociraptor
I've been able to go back as a visiting relative to the place where I had some of my worst workplace experiences as a junior house officer and it didn't bother me at all. The place where I had my absolute worst workplace experience, an obstetric unit in Birmingham, has been knocked down and replaced with a housing development.
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10 Feb
9:03pm, 10 Feb 2025
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Bob!
I've not been past The Goldstone Ground since it was sold. I don't have a problem with going past previous workplaces. |
11 Feb
7:36pm, 11 Feb 2025
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Muttley
My old workplace, a wonderful stately pile on the top of a hill with equally wonderful grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, has been sold off to developers. Apparently they're turning the place into a retirement complex of which part is independent living and part is care home. I did not win friends among colleagues by wondering aloud if it was too much hassle obtaining planning permission for change of use. |
11 Feb
7:41pm, 11 Feb 2025
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Bazoaxe
My first office has been occupied by another firm and was the scene of a local murder My second office also taken over by other firms My third is flats My fourth is student flats My faith is a trendy pub We sold the sixth as part of a doomed M&A My 7th being refurbed for another firm 8th occupied by other firms 9th was vacated and being let out to other firms 10th is still the main HQ 11th is nice office but miles from anywhere I could probably list another dozen sites where we had offices and I have spent time without being based there And that for one employer over 39 years. |
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11 Feb
7:50pm, 11 Feb 2025
32,178 posts
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Sigh
I spent the first 7 years of working life based in portacabins on building sites, so I've never viewed any workplace in terms of its permanence or otherwise.
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11 Feb
8:51pm, 11 Feb 2025
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Diogenes
My first workplace is now converted for residential use after once being voted London’s ugliest building. wimbledonguardian.co.uk |
11 Feb
9:26pm, 11 Feb 2025
34,474 posts
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Rosehip
mine has been turned into stupid expensive flats and an attempt to make the side of the Grand Union Canal upmarket. greenfordquay.com |
11 Feb
9:29pm, 11 Feb 2025
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OO61
I think you win @Bazoaxe 👏
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