canaryinthemine
Retirement....The Job I Was Born To Have!
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Anyone know if ABF has quietly discontinued one of it's long-standing traditions of giving a limited-edition set of collectible ABF doubles to retirees?
The last guy who retired at our terminal was given his set on the day he retired three years ago. I've been retired for more than a month, and haven't gotten mine. When I asked our TM, he said: "Yes, you'll get it...." , and then 10 minutes later, he said he wasn't sure......
I haven't been able to get a straight answer out of him, because he claims he can't find out from anyone when I'll get the retirement doubles.
Such a little thing,......but indicative of the downward spiral of morale..........They beat the daylights out of you, ask the older guys to take on more and more,......because "You know how to do it so much better/faster than our newer employees"......Push you to work longer hours because their pay/vacation fiasco in the last contract dried up their stream of new-hires,.........And, ...you do it all, because of some archaic sense of a work ethic.......
And,......like the proverbial gold(plated) watch that companies used to give out as a minor "tip"......to give a slight wink to the fact that you busted your butt for the company,.......... That..."tip"....the doubles,....apparently has gone the way of the gold watch.......
Maybe I'm mistaken,.....maybe it's an internal thing with my TM,......But I can't ask this question on InfoRoundtable, because on the day I retired, they changed the format for me, and I can no longer access many of the pages that I could when I was an active employee,......including InfoRoundtable. They were pretty quick on that..........
Anyone have any idea whether there is,...or isn't retirement doubles anymore?
The last guy who retired at our terminal was given his set on the day he retired three years ago. I've been retired for more than a month, and haven't gotten mine. When I asked our TM, he said: "Yes, you'll get it...." , and then 10 minutes later, he said he wasn't sure......
I haven't been able to get a straight answer out of him, because he claims he can't find out from anyone when I'll get the retirement doubles.
Such a little thing,......but indicative of the downward spiral of morale..........They beat the daylights out of you, ask the older guys to take on more and more,......because "You know how to do it so much better/faster than our newer employees"......Push you to work longer hours because their pay/vacation fiasco in the last contract dried up their stream of new-hires,.........And, ...you do it all, because of some archaic sense of a work ethic.......
And,......like the proverbial gold(plated) watch that companies used to give out as a minor "tip"......to give a slight wink to the fact that you busted your butt for the company,.......... That..."tip"....the doubles,....apparently has gone the way of the gold watch.......
Maybe I'm mistaken,.....maybe it's an internal thing with my TM,......But I can't ask this question on InfoRoundtable, because on the day I retired, they changed the format for me, and I can no longer access many of the pages that I could when I was an active employee,......including InfoRoundtable. They were pretty quick on that..........
Anyone have any idea whether there is,...or isn't retirement doubles anymore?