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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 3816966" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>I think I have told this before. When I retired after 20, I was making $8.10 per hour in 1995. I was training guys that came in making $10. I loved the job, I loved the guys, I hated the legal system and the city fathers that kept creating circumstances where you could never get a raise. For years it was promised but never given, Cost of living at the end of the year maybe, MAYBE! Then they decided to have a merit based system with yearly evaluations. It also came down from on high that no one in the entire city would get raises so they had to make the eval's fit. Have you ever not screwed up within a year? </p><p></p><p>I quit and had a temp employment business going in two cities so I was making a good paycheck. But, my paycheck depended upon my people I placed going to work. When I can make it 90 miles one way to my other office and they cannot even walk across the street? I was looking for another job.</p><p></p><p>I got hired knowing nothing about the alarm systems but was making $16 to start. I sent a copy of my new paycheck to the chief who laughed when I retired and threw my 20 year pin at me. Cheap gold and a fake diamond. Cheapskates!</p><p></p><p>Anyway the alarm gig turned out really well. I got to work for a national company nobody had heard of but we had the Fortune 100 companies as clients and did airports, shipping docks major hospitals, Wildlife preserves, military bases, you name it. It got to where I was alone handling the service calls in two states and had been requested by name several times by VP's to get on chartered airplanes and go fix something nobody else could.</p><p></p><p>Tooting my horn here....</p><p></p><p>I tried retiring this time I was sitting at home. Then the demonrats stole the election and we have 9.1% inflation..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 3816966, member: 44288"] I think I have told this before. When I retired after 20, I was making $8.10 per hour in 1995. I was training guys that came in making $10. I loved the job, I loved the guys, I hated the legal system and the city fathers that kept creating circumstances where you could never get a raise. For years it was promised but never given, Cost of living at the end of the year maybe, MAYBE! Then they decided to have a merit based system with yearly evaluations. It also came down from on high that no one in the entire city would get raises so they had to make the eval's fit. Have you ever not screwed up within a year? I quit and had a temp employment business going in two cities so I was making a good paycheck. But, my paycheck depended upon my people I placed going to work. When I can make it 90 miles one way to my other office and they cannot even walk across the street? I was looking for another job. I got hired knowing nothing about the alarm systems but was making $16 to start. I sent a copy of my new paycheck to the chief who laughed when I retired and threw my 20 year pin at me. Cheap gold and a fake diamond. Cheapskates! Anyway the alarm gig turned out really well. I got to work for a national company nobody had heard of but we had the Fortune 100 companies as clients and did airports, shipping docks major hospitals, Wildlife preserves, military bases, you name it. It got to where I was alone handling the service calls in two states and had been requested by name several times by VP's to get on chartered airplanes and go fix something nobody else could. Tooting my horn here.... I tried retiring this time I was sitting at home. Then the demonrats stole the election and we have 9.1% inflation.. [/QUOTE]
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