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The Retirement Thread

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Ness
Ness
Sep 2023
6:31pm, 14 Sep 2023
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Ness
Fabulous!
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Sep 2023
6:40pm, 14 Sep 2023
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Not jealous of any photos at all 😂😂😂.

I could have that ice cream every day if I went 10 minutes past my house after work…Auntie Betty’s is practically on my doorstep
GimmeMedals
GimmeMedals
Sep 2023
7:24pm, 14 Sep 2023
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Heading SE to Hayle or SW ? From my experience the bit from Hayle to Lelant isn't worth it, unless ticking a box for completion. All next to a busy road and (fairly smelly) mud. The sand dunes eithe side of the estuary are good though! Enjoy


We didn’t bother with Leland, just over the dunes to Hayle from Upper Towans then back along the beach.
We had some steep, sandy climbs to deal with. Being retired isn’t all that easy, you know…

We had to have a Philps pasty as well as Mr B’s ice cream (I didn’t think to take photos)
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Sep 2023
4:08pm, 15 Sep 2023
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Day off today and I made it productive even with a slight long lie. I could get used this life rather quickly.
Mandymoo
Mandymoo
Sep 2023
4:21pm, 15 Sep 2023
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It won't take long I promise you 😁
Johnny Blaze
Johnny Blaze
Sep 2023
4:23pm, 15 Sep 2023
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Still painting here…
Ally-C
Ally-C
Sep 2023
4:26pm, 15 Sep 2023
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Got an update on my pension pot earlier, it’s went up more in the last year than I intend to take out annually, so that’s promising.

No kids to leave anything to anyway.
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
Sep 2023
7:32pm, 15 Sep 2023
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As WW keeps reminding me, today should have been my last day. I think the three day thing will work out. I hope!

I did have an interesting conversation with my immediate line manager though, where I said that I wasn’t sure I’d get very far past next June. “We only agreed the three day week based on the fact you said you would stay until 2025” to which my reply was “well I’m still only on three months’ notice”
Sigh
Sigh
Sep 2023
7:40pm, 15 Sep 2023
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As WW keeps reminding me, today should have been my last day. I think the three day thing will work out. I hope! I did have an interesting conversation with my immediate line manager though, where I said that I wasn’t sure I’d get very far past next June. “We only agreed the three day week based on the fact you said you would stay until 2025” to which my reply was “well I’m still only on three months’ notice”


One of my final pieces of work before leaving was to produce a proposal for a retirement policy. Possibly a futile exercise, but my boss approved it and she was a board director; In summary, I pointed out that they should be incentivising folks to provide longer notice periods of their retirement dates in return for days off to plan for retirement, preserved bonus entitlement, etc.

It may come to nothing, but without it, more and more times they'll be stung by long-serving employees giving the bare minimum notice and leaving quite a hole.
GimmeMedals
GimmeMedals
Sep 2023
8:17pm, 15 Sep 2023
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Today, my job was to watch seagulls, eat fish and chips and swim in the sea at St Ives. I am an exemplary employee and achieved everything on today’s job list.

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Schnecke (end of school term 07.23)
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