Thursday, July 9, 2009

We were forced into taking an early retirement from our position as general manager of a small weekly newspaper owned by a large company. Knowledge and experience be damned, youth and degrees (and lower salaries) became the thought process of our corporate office.
In all fairness, we had seriously considered retiring at the end of 2009. We informed our employer in the fall of 2008 of our thoughts.
It was December when we were called to the office for an annual evaluation and told: We've talked it over and decided that if you are going to retire we don't need to do an evaluation. In fact, we were told, if you decide to retire 10 months early we're willing to offer a severance package.
And what if I wanted to stay until the end of the year?
Well, I could still leave 10 months early and wouldn't be eligible for the severance package.
We've done some nutty things in our life and people have been more than willing to tell us that. But, in truth, momma didn't raise no nuts!
So, we "retired" and took the severance package.
As it turned out things have worked out fairly well so far. We get to do some traveling, see the country and now we have found the wife a job that will require her to travel the country in our travel trailer (we're the driver) while she works.
Like we said . . . momma didn't raise no nuts!

1 comment:

  1. OK--got it--------thanks for continuing the BACK PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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