My time here has expired and I am counting days until retirement. At first I could hardly wait to leave, but as that time approaches, I feel a bit depressed. Some will say that this is unusual considering the overall situation in the company, but I still think that I will need more time to adjust to retirement.
I remember some awful times, but still, there were many wonderful moments in this company.
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While you were at work back stabbing, I was at your house stabbing as well. 🖕
@1kiy does BKR really have a "policy" which allows an employee to retire at the age of "60 with 10 years of experience?"
Ironically, I was laid off just before meeting the criteria mentioned above. So, from a timing perspective, was this just a coincidence, or is this an intentional cost savings strategy to avoid paying for retirement?
Wonder how many other employees were in a similar boat and "laid off" as they neared the age of 60!
@6zpk based on your comment, sounds like you worked in Supply Chain.
I liked nothing better than backstabbing my buddies in my dept.
I’m retired 5+ years with no regrets. Take retirement and move on with life. You will adjust. Retirement is what you make of it. Make it great. Take the good memories and forget the bad. In my career I worked for 3 different organizations. Baker had more back stabbers than any of the others. Retirement is great !! I was prudent with my savings while working so I’m doing fine in retirement. Enjoy life!!! It’s short.
Retirement is great
Retiring from BKR is an oxymoron. You have to be 60 with 10 years experience. What about those with 20 years experience and 50. No retirement, you can only quit and move on.
An enormous weight will be lifted from you in retirement. Think about how much of your thoughts are consumed with your job. What happened yesterday, what's going on now and what's coming up. There is usually stress with many of these thoughts.
Then poof! Now in retirement you have to decide what's for lunch. Not much else. I thought I might miss work in retirement but then remind myself of the many down times after working at one place 27 years. I quickly got over it and enjoy not going to the office immensely. And not fighting traffic. Plus, you can do your errands when others are at work. Ever see an empty Walmart? Go Tues at 9am. lol
Enjoy.
Take the good memories and retire with pride that you made (hopefully) a positive impact to the organization and most importantly, brought value to the customer.
If it’s a schietz storm now, take cover and retire. You earned it
I’ve been on both sides of layoffs and neither feels good. I was lucky to have lasted as long as I did considering a lot of factors.
I had a great time delivering projects for the company to our customers, but that’s just who I am.
Sadly the aftermath is pretty much the same, colleagues passing others ideas as their own, friendships dissolving over something as trivial as money. Ungrateful employees and colleagues that we’ve all supported or helped in one manor or another. Projecting one’s own faults onto others publicly, because we believe first one to say aloud is the person in the right
I truly understand why the word integrity is the most common word used by leadership. I often thought it was merely a redundant word, similar to others. But leadership often focuses on risk mitigation the most, and integrity is the biggest risk I’ve witnessed in the past 6 years.
Can’t think of one wonderful moment with this mess, only misery from day one. Most useless bunch of slackers ever worked with.