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[FloridaDean]

still raining.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

[A Friend of Charlie]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

Personally? Or he was able to expense it?

[South Carolina Redfish]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

While I am not an old fart I know some and here is an example.

The govt gave me a shitty $50 watch with their name on it for 20 years service.

My office had a nice luncheon for me and included  some of the TxDOT folks I worked with

My office “Team” gave me a $100 Bass Pro Shop gift card

And most of all my boss and the big boss finagled me an extra performance bonus for the year designated to buy myself a $3000 watch with.

Gave myself a fishing boat

Employees paid for lunch & team gift
Govt paid for shitty watch

That's a nice send-off.

Yes it was

Oh yeah, my boss lady and the big boss gave me the TX State Flag that flew over the State Capital on the day of my retirement and the State of TX gave me a Thank You for my service to the State certificate also certifying the authenticity of the Flag.  A very nice gift and the only one ever given in my office so quite special.  It is folded in a display frame hanging on my wall.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

[A Friend of Charlie]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

And now since the contributions are low and the plaque already cost so much, they're talking about making it a brown bag - byo lunch - situation. I think he might appreciate a kick in the nuts more. Sheesh.

[Threebean]

when I worked parttime as the nut bus driver and quit when my marriage ended and heading for Florida I had separate parties from Mental Health, Addictions, Public Health, and the County Board gave me a certificate and hand shake.

We celebrate work anniversaries here at 5 year intervals.  The employee gets a nice surprise gift at our quarterly luncheon. We have a guy this month celebrating his 15th year.  He's a big gun guy so the company bought him a $1300 rifle he's been coveting.  Have never had anyone retire from here yet so no idea how that will go.

[South Carolina Redfish]

when I worked parttime as the nut bus driver and quit when my marriage ended and heading for Florida I had separate parties from Mental Health, Addictions, Public Health, and the County Board gave me a certificate and hand shake.

Damn I miss those morning nut-bus stories every morning

[South Carolina Redfish]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

And now since the contributions are low and the plaque already cost so much, they're talking about making it a brown bag - byo lunch - situation. I think he might appreciate a kick in the nuts more. Sheesh.

Yeah, that’s pretty pathetic

[Threebean]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

And now since the contributions are low and the plaque already cost so much, they're talking about making it a brown bag - byo lunch - situation. I think he might appreciate a kick in the nuts more. Sheesh.

Sheesh is right. Why the show of ingratitude?  Is the guy from Israel?

[South Carolina Redfish]

Wardens company used to throw lavish cocktail and dinner parties with very nice company paid for gifts but when the Socialist Norwegians took it over they cut all that shit out so she got a few nice things paid for by people she worked with and a moderate company paid luncheon.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

And now since the contributions are low and the plaque already cost so much, they're talking about making it a brown bag - byo lunch - situation. I think he might appreciate a kick in the nuts more. Sheesh.

Yeah, that’s pretty pathetic

If you're really looking deep for a silver lining here,  at least they're taking this fiscal responsibility thing very seriously. I'm told they did a similar thing when the director (CEO) retired. Of course, people actually contributed to that one.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

And now since the contributions are low and the plaque already cost so much, they're talking about making it a brown bag - byo lunch - situation. I think he might appreciate a kick in the nuts more. Sheesh.

Sheesh is right. Why the show of ingratitude?  Is the guy from Israel?

I have seen that sentiment, it's no joke. But in this case he's Philippine Filipino.

[FloridaDean]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

Personally? Or he was able to expense it?

probably a NYSDOT credit card.

[FloridaDean]

Ok, I have a question for the old farts on here... What did your companies do for you as far as retirement parties / gifts? How about your colleagues / friends?

I put in 30 years with NYSDOT, worked all over the state, knew thousands of guys, had a crew of 20+ of my own at 3 different locations for years. my retirement consisted of lunch with my Engineer, Assistant Engineer, a co-supervisor, and our purchasing agent. that was 2009, I have not been back since.

Who paid for the lunch?

the Assistant Engineer.

We have a guy retiring next week. He put in 32 years with the UN. He gets jack shit from the organization. The "friends" are expected to chip in to throw him a party/luncheon and buy him a gift. His current boss kicked us off by personally contributing $100. Someone decided to have a plaque made with the organization's logo and give it to him as his gift. So now it looks like the they paid for it. I'm calling bullshit. Especially since it costs $160 and it will be the first thing he discards when he's a couple of pounds over on his suitcase (He's going back to his home country).

I had about 20 various award plaques in my office when I retired and I shitcanned every one of them!

same here.