The Retirement Thread
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Mar 2023
1:39pm, 29 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
the first IT company I worked for was opposite a wine bar every Friday the owner would come in then after work leave his card behind the bar! |
Mar 2023
1:46pm, 29 Mar 2023
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TROSaracen
My first boss at BT was an alcoholic. I was quite startled to turn up on my first day and get taken for a very boozy lunch - I was told it was very unusual for her to be in work in 9:30 when I was due in on my first day, 10:30-11 was more usual. I later found out a very boozy lunch was a daily occurrence if you wanted it, and I was told that the bottle of mineral water that went everywhere with her was full of vodka. Very sad - she never got to grips with it, died a few years later. |
Mar 2023
1:48pm, 29 Mar 2023
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GregP
Card behind the bar. Those were the days. Buying your own drinks in the City in the 80s and 90s was positively vulgar. You'd just swagger up to the bar, order a round and ask the person serving to put it "on Dave's tab". In the unlikely event that nobody called Dave had a tab running you just tried another name until you got a hit.
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Mar 2023
2:04pm, 29 Mar 2023
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Lip Gloss
In the place I normally work in and share with another another practice always has a 'fat Friday' . One of the GP's comes in leaves their CC and an order goes into Gregg's for us all. Don't think I've seen anyone who retires from my work stay longer than the morning teabreaks and the usual presentation of flowers etc . |
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Mar 2023
2:09pm, 29 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
we occasionally have a fat Friday too
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Mar 2023
2:17pm, 29 Mar 2023
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bigleggy
First job I got had a pub in the basement of the building. We used to describe working there as 'A Drinking Club with a Life Insurance Problem' You could finish work and get the lift to the pub. I rarely went home in those days  2 hours lunches were common place. As was giving back holidays because your Flexi Time debit was out of control !!! |
Mar 2023
2:18pm, 29 Mar 2023
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3M
Very nice, Sigh! I'm off out tonight on a colleagues retirement drinks do. It's only slightly annoying that he's 5 years younger than me! He did get a very healthy boost because he used to work for one of our predecessor companies who used to give much more generous pension terms. (That's one reason why "we" were able to buy "them", back in the day!) Although when I used to sit next to him I watched him micro-managing his pension funds on a very frequent basis. It obviously can pay off if you know what you're doing. |
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Mar 2023
2:26pm, 29 Mar 2023
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TROSaracen
I remember my (and 2 others) having a leaving do in the city mid 90's card behind the bar heyday, we put the corporate card behind the bar with the code 'I love you' as the code to use it for payment. Bloody messy night that. |
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Mar 2023
3:19pm, 29 Mar 2023
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Lip Gloss
This will be me 😂😂 |
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Mar 2023
3:20pm, 29 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
haha I think this is what Mr Pix fears even though we shouldn't have an issue at all |
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