Popular Post Rattlecan ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 17, 2017 but I wasn't expecting anything anyway. Yesterday, I got a call from the office of my former employer, apologizing that they still had my retirement gift, and had overlooked sending it out. This morning, when I got home from the gym, there was a package on my doorstep. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 17, 2017 Share #2 Posted January 17, 2017 Congrats, I can't wait for retirement. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #3 Posted January 17, 2017 Gold watches are over rated. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #4 Posted January 17, 2017 Wow, I didn't get any toys when I retired, I had to buy my own. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #5 Posted January 17, 2017 I think it's more meaningful than a gold watch. Says the guy who wears a 198 yen black plastic watch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted January 17, 2017 Share #6 Posted January 17, 2017 that's pretty cool when my dad retired from ARCO, they didn't do anything for him at all. He worked up on the north slope and the contractors up there took a half inch thick piece of steel and cut it out like the shape of Alaska and then polished it up and engraved it and gave it to him like a plaque but anymore you retire and just get thrown out with the trash 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #7 Posted January 17, 2017 happy retirement 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wilbur ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Popular Post Share #8 Posted January 17, 2017 5 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Wow, I didn't get any toys when I retired, I had to buy my own. I haven't retired but I was outsourced. At that time, they gave me 3 years pay, a gold Omega Constellation and gold Tiffany's cufflinks. Guilt and ease of conscience for those money grubbing assholes. I sold the watch and cufflinks. Like a need a reminder.... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Popular Post Share #9 Posted January 17, 2017 The guy that retired just before me sold his watch to one of the guys still working before he left the building. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share #10 Posted January 17, 2017 The model is very detailed, and looks very much like the real thing. I can't dig up any good photos right now. most of them are on the computer that crashed. This is about the best I can find at the moment. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #11 Posted January 17, 2017 That's pretty cool! Hmm, maybe the watch is the freight. Didja open it up?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #12 Posted January 17, 2017 1 minute ago, Rattlecan said: The model is very detailed, and looks very much like the real thing. I can't dig up any good photos right now. most of them are on the computer that crashed. This is about the best I can find at the moment. I had never been an aviation stuff collector and have few photos except with memorable groups or celebrities. At the end of my Edmonton training contract, the guys I trained gave me a very high quality model of the airplane and a large framed photo of the cockpit. It is the only aviation related stuff in my house but I really enjoy them in my office. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted January 17, 2017 Share #13 Posted January 17, 2017 Congrats on the belated retirement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #14 Posted January 17, 2017 Oh ya, congrats!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted January 17, 2017 Share #15 Posted January 17, 2017 yea, if you retired, then you just became my new role model! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Share #16 Posted January 17, 2017 At the chemical company when our best client retired, we gave him an HO scale model of one of our railcars. It was very detailed & I heard, very expensive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 17, 2017 Share #17 Posted January 17, 2017 I like the truck model-- it should remind you of adventures--probably both good and bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share #18 Posted January 17, 2017 43 minutes ago, Airehead said: I like the truck model-- it should remind you of adventures--probably both good and bad. Mostly good, thankfully. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Come Lately Name Posted January 17, 2017 Share #19 Posted January 17, 2017 The hourly scum never got anything, where I was. In several cases, we made something for them. (One guy got a plaster cast of a hand with a middle finger extended - everyone signed it. Another guy got a chunk he broke off from a die and a note from the tool room thanking him for retiring). Salaried folks got a gift card which came in a little silver box. When they brought me one of the boxes to engrave for a guy who was retiring, I looked in the little velvet-lined, silver box and said "Oh....so when you retire, you get your soul back?" HR was not amused. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted January 18, 2017 Share #20 Posted January 18, 2017 Those trailers look really long to be pulling tandems. How long are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted January 18, 2017 Share #21 Posted January 18, 2017 I haven't yet retired, and not sure I'll be able to, but at one job where I left all the tradesmen in the electrical shop and the HVAC shop got together and gave me a picture of all of them. Everyone of them was smiling, holding an 8-1/2x11 sign that said "Thaddeus Who?", while standing in front of a piece of equipment I'd modified that had failed on a Sunday morning and shut down a college data center. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share #22 Posted January 18, 2017 33 minutes ago, Parr8hed said: Those trailers look really long to be pulling tandems. How long are they? They are 53 footers. Overall length is 130' Everything is relative. In Australia, that would be a toy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted January 18, 2017 Share #23 Posted January 18, 2017 6 minutes ago, Rattlecan said: They are 53 footers. Overall length is 130' Everything is relative. In Australia, that would be a toy. Dang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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