Today I am interviewing for the job I have done for the past 6 years - and done well I might add. With a reorganization and new bosses who do not value experience I am on shaky ground. They actually want me to take a demotion to continue doing my job - something I am going to fight.

Thanks to you all.

"...new bosses who do not value experience..."

Hmmm, I have heard this tune way too much lately.

A bit of a tired saying but, God will not close a door without opening a window. Hang tough and keep your faith.

After 31 years, it was suggested that "perhaps you need to think about retiring." There are only two of us left that are not college educated and don't have PE's. The two of us came up the "hard" way. One of the interviewers said, "those days are over." I reminded them of how many of those PE's I trained over the years that went on to have big positions within the department. They didn't have much to say about that. I told them I might just stick around for "awhile."

They "realigned" our titles. There were about 25 of us that were affected in this region.

Good luck

Joe

I used to work for a company like that... they had a habit of hiring guys right out of college, working them like dogs for three or four years, at which time they would resign and go find better pay (which generally wasn't difficult).

One of their process engineers was a man who in a 30-year career at this ONE site (he was a hold-over from a previous company buy-out) had already forgotten more than I will ever know about steam-sterilization of IV solutions. They wouldn't promote this guy... basically they were encouraging him to disappear. So he took his retirement and left.

Six months later I see him in the hallway with a contractor's badge on. He is now a consultant, hired at three times his former rate of pay to come back in and run the same projects he would have been given if he had received his promotion. Seems nobody else at the plant had the chops for it.

Funny how companies shoot themselves in the foot.

-AaronB

That things will out the best for you.

It's not right. It's not reasonable. It's not rational. But it is real. Good Luck with it.

Going on in state government right now. It appears to me the governor is trying to push people with 30 years or so in out the door. Encouraging you to retire is probably a violation but may not be worth pushing. My oldest son is going through the same interview process. Realigning/reorganizing and abolishing positions is their way of getting around what little civil service protection we have left.

Yes good luck to you Tom. Prayers sent.

Mike

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

I "retired" when I turned 55. I had discussed it with my boss and the HR department beforehand, and they agreed with my plan wholeheartedly. I contacted a local "contractor house" and they hired me immediately . . . and immediately placed me with the place I had just "retired" from. Essentially I took a week off and then returned to my old desk (which I hadn't even cleaned out), turned my computer back on, and resumed working on the project I was handling before my "retirement".

Everybody was happy. I made much better money, got paid for every hour I worked, and had a totally better attitude "working for myself" . . . and I didn't have to go to all the meetings.

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I feel that the interview went very well. Now the wait comes until all the others are interviewed.

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