Longevity at work - How long have you been working for your present employer?

How long have you been working for the same employer?


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#21
12 years for me... Then again, the group has changed names and owners twice and our site has changed names several times during those years.... You know the drill, people... :rolleyes: ...as soon as you have all the stationary and paperwork in order you have to start changing it again.

/Claes
 
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Craig H.

#24
It will be 18 years with this company on July 1 this year. More than 25 years in this industry, though.
 
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somerqc

#26
Sorry to hear that Jim! Unfortunately, it seems like the new "normal" in today's times. There have been MANY of those types of announcements in Canada as well - especially in the auto industry (GM has thier Canadian HQ about 1 hour from my home).

Hopefully we start to pull out of this soon. I still have a job (4+ yrs) but it may not last much longer as I don't know how much longer my employer can handle the conditions! Fortunately, my wife has some security with working for the government.

Crossing my fingers for you Jim and all the others in that situation.
 
#27
I will be starting my 11th year on the 9th. I thought I had it all figured out. I kept saying I was going to retire (started saying that in '02) at the end of the year. So instead of firing me, they would just figure I was leaving anyways, so they would wait for me to leave.

I think they are on to my plan though........ :notme:
 
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Kevin H

#28
I'll have 7 years in April of this year - would have been January, but for a short 3 month stint trying another job last year. The longest before that was 8 years, and the next longest was 5 & 1/2. As a metallurgist who graduated in the 1970's, living in western PA and starting work in the steel industry, there are too many companies who I started working for that just don't exist any more. I managed to get out ahead of the axe about 50% of the time.

Wish I'd had someone like Wes to help during the early career days - probably would have helped a lot.

Now, benefits are too good, the job interesting enough, and corporate culture OK enough that I'm just hoping/planning on hanging in 11 or 12 more years and retiring. I'll be 66 or 67 by then, so hopefully will have enough saved and be able to retire and pursue personal interests.
 

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#29
I'll have 7 years in April of this year - would have been January, but for a short 3 month stint trying another job last year. The longest before that was 8 years, and the next longest was 5 & 1/2. As a metallurgist who graduated in the 1970's, living in western PA and starting work in the steel industry, there are too many companies who I started working for that just don't exist any more. I managed to get out ahead of the axe about 50% of the time.

Wish I'd had someone like Wes to help during the early career days - probably would have helped a lot.

Now, benefits are too good, the job interesting enough, and corporate culture OK enough that I'm just hoping/planning on hanging in 11 or 12 more years and retiring. I'll be 66 or 67 by then, so hopefully will have enough saved and be able to retire and pursue personal interests.
No matter how much you think is enough saved, it isn't.:nope:

I wrote long ago, EVERYBODY needs an "exit strategy." My small company clients who are sole proprietorships and giant corporation execs have one factor in common - they rarely have a well-thought out and coordinated exit or succession plan.

The net result usually means some "expert from afar" has to come in at an exorbitant fee to keep the crew from drowning when the captain abandons ship (on purpose or force majeure) both events which might have been softened by a quick and dirty periodic FMEA (failure mode & effects analysis.)

Complacency has destroyed more careers and companies than any other single factor - a topic for a thread of its own.

Over my career, I have seen a noticeable trend away from long-term employment at the same company, EXCEPT where the individual is building an equity interest in the business. Such equity interest might be actual stock or a profit-sharing fund.

Without that mutual tie of money, the idea of two-way loyalty (and longevity) seems to have disappeared throughout the world, even in Japan, where the jolt to the cultural psyche is still echoing in articles, anecdotes, and statistical surveys.
 
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