Fear of change is a powerful dr-g.
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I'm five years away from 30 years. Too old now to be marketable. Just have to wait it out. Not much else to do. When I get to 30, I'm gone.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
My husband keeps hanging on because he feels like he can’t do better. He works two jobs because he has a fear of being let go at at T. And now the union by telling everyone to walk off the job without no advanced notice has made that a reality. I was close to paying off my home and having financial freedom in 18 months. Now thanks to this strike my kids could become homeless. I got him a great job two years ago with better benefits, more money, an actual progressing career and no union. He turned it down banking on job security at T (go figure right?) I now have him lying on his resume and applying for temp jobs with my work experience. I’ll teach him how to do the job if he gets one and hopefully his confidence level will rise and he will get out of this AT&T hole. As usual, it’s the boomers whose homes are paid off and whose kids are grown that initiated this strike. As usual, they only care about what they can get and the heck with everybody else. I can pick each one out on this site by their retired in place, entitled, the company owes me statements. Try going out into the real world and working. Why can’t boomers just let go of their grip and head off to the senior living facility never to return? Quit destroying everything for the rest of us. You don’t need to take it all with you. We will manage just fine without you. We’ve been waiting for our turn for awhile. Time to let it happen.
"If they would have just been honest and forthright"
You got that right! When Stankey took away the medicare bridge a few years ago he got a quick bump in retirements, but delayed a bunch of other retirement for many years. If that was still available for early retirees a lot more folks would be leaving now, especially if Stank would have put 5 year target date to remove the medicare bridge.
I have about five years to retirement. Why would I start over at this point? Ride it out or get laid off and retire early.
They don't pay nearly as well flipping burgers.
Money.
I could make more money elsewhere, but I’d have to move to a HCOL area.
I have no other options.
Not afraid. Will embrace it when it comes. Staying for my severance when they lay me off. It’s not an insignificant amount, and I’m unwilling to concede and leave it on the table.
If they would have just been honest and forthright in the approach to shed headcount, and offered severance for the certain vintage of worker they want to be rid of….they would very quickly get to whatever magic headcount number they’re aiming for. But I suspect at this point they would get so many takers that a lot of work would just grind to a halt.
It's fun and fairly easy watching my millions grow.
they pay me $51.00 an hour is why
Why leave? I'm close to retirement, have excellent PTO, decent healthcare, good 401(k) and HSA matches and investment choices. If they lay me off, I'll take my severance and retire. If not, I'll keep accruing wealth until I either hate it or hit Medicare eligibility.