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Offline Mattsglxr

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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #50 on: February 21, 2018, 04:31:42 PM »
17 years next month still a fair few years to go yet. My dad was only a year older than me now when he retired at 48 after 30 years at PMG/Telecom got a redundancy in the 90s. Not a hope in hell of me retiring yet lol.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #51 on: February 21, 2018, 05:18:08 PM »
10yrs in a thankless job
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #52 on: February 21, 2018, 05:27:07 PM »
Quote from: Bird on February 21, 2018, 08:53:09 AM
Used to be 1 interview and start tomorrow...

Now some places now have 5-6 interviews, exams to see how smart, exam to see if you would fit in the environment, psychological tests, police checks, check your facebook page... take me back to 1986 and leave me there.

Hahaha yep had interviews like that ... current employer .... rolled up for interview ... sat in lunch room and just had a chat , i left the room so they could chat , when i walked back in i was offered the job at a dollar amount said i needed a certain number which was aggred on then we shook hands and job was mine ..... never once was any paperwork handed over etc ..... that was approx 15 years ago
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #53 on: February 21, 2018, 05:28:02 PM »
Quote from: McGirr on February 21, 2018, 12:26:17 PM
Does 20 years with the ex count  ;D

Geez ... and the three years I did with mine seemed like a lifetime ....
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #54 on: February 21, 2018, 05:40:22 PM »
Been self employed for the majority of the past 25 years, did do about a year and a half on wages for a builder i had previously contracted to about 4 years ago though. The misses clocked up 23 years recently where she is employed.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #55 on: February 21, 2018, 07:30:23 PM »
It will be 35 for me this year in July. With the ever changing rules on compliance and Legislation, it's getting harder and harder. Still enjoy what I do with the guys and hope to do so for a few more years yet.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #56 on: February 21, 2018, 09:17:22 PM »
Hubby did 33 years until manadory age retirement kicked him out.

I will have 25 years in July year and still many more to go.

Both of us with the same employer.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #57 on: February 21, 2018, 09:31:26 PM »
23 years continued employment last Friday

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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #58 on: February 22, 2018, 05:05:21 AM »
Have had 3 permanent jobs
First was just over 4 years then they shut the ractory and was made redundant
Longest stint was 9 years 5 mths before redundancy. 5 roles so kept changing roles
And now 3 years in current company
 Just realised I've never left a company with perm employment where I could of still been there.
   
My dad got just under 49yrs before he got a redundancy now to work something similar out
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #59 on: February 22, 2018, 06:46:31 AM »
23 years then redundancy,
Then re-hired (same roll) with new company owners, did another 6 years then a "sea change" into the Tow Truck business, that was ok at first then the GFC
hit. Got a wages job in Aug 2010,
Into my 8th year with them🤤

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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #60 on: February 22, 2018, 06:47:27 AM »
21 years in my first real job after leaving school.
Moved on post GFC looking for something different and since then have been through 2 redundancies and currently awaiting "announcements" regarding the most recent restructure my group is currently doing.  As a result, longest stint has been about 3 years.
Seriously considering ramping up the part time business my wife and I run from home and going full time - I can make my own rules and conditions then!!  ;D
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #61 on: February 22, 2018, 10:03:23 AM »
29 Years working for the same clown in fabrication.
That clown would be me lol
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #62 on: February 22, 2018, 11:17:22 AM »
Ive been with my current employer (1st line job since finishing Uni) full time for the last 11years.
Had 2 department changes in that time but on my 6th department manager, and the way things are going, soon it will probably be a 7th.
I believe i'm on my 4th (or maybe even 5th) CEO too...

Government jobs are definitely not what they are cracked up to be, especially when you aren't in upper management, but part of the underpinning that keeps the cogs turning.

Have had enough of the unrealistic pressures and expectations from both management and general public, taken myself back to school to do a post grad this year (although in the same sort of field) but hoping for a better lifestyle and healthier me at the end of it.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #63 on: February 22, 2018, 11:39:39 AM »
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Have had enough of the unrealistic pressures and expectations from both management
I think that's most modern companies where managers use lots of buzzwords they over heard in the Qantas lounge...

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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #64 on: February 22, 2018, 11:46:57 AM »
19 years.
3 different names but same company.
Was lucky enough to start when I was 17. I am now on my 6th location around NSW.
No more moves hopefully.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #65 on: February 22, 2018, 12:50:33 PM »
Quote from: Bird on February 22, 2018, 11:39:39 AM
I think that's most modern companies where managers use lots of buzzwords they over heard in the Qantas lounge...

good luck with the training

Agree wholeheartedly, many upper management now have so many Kpis tied to bonuses that it's all about ticking the boxes, one of the reasons I retired. I recall a national promotion that we ran for 3 months, everything was measured, promo plan, promo materials, coverage, client participation, sales etc, the promo was dog, failed miserably, cost a lot of money.
Discussion at end of the day was about the process not why the promotion failed. Idiots
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #66 on: February 22, 2018, 04:04:07 PM »
AHAHAHAHA
I've had 14 different employers since leaving high school in 82
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In that time I have been dismissed from only two of those jobs.
Rest I have waked out for a better job or the business had been sold and down sized
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #67 on: February 22, 2018, 04:08:09 PM »
The last mine site I worked at announced in November '16 that they needed to reduce the workforce by 30 people by June 17.
By Feb 17 they had reduced it by over 35 so I thought I was safe and got two car leases. A week after I signed the second lease they announced a round of redundancies. Of course I was made redundant and stuck with two pretty new leases which really made life difficult.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #68 on: February 22, 2018, 06:48:48 PM »
23 years in mid 2018. I’d like to retire but reckon I’ll be here for another 5 to 10years.

Oh how I wish I’d been more sensible in me youf.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #69 on: February 23, 2018, 05:28:43 AM »
35 years for me. Got a weeks casual work at the small family owned sawmill to dig some trenches for electrical cables back in 1983 and never left. Worked my way through the ranks, and wound up as manager in 2005. Its awesome when you find something you like doing and work for some really nice people.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #70 on: February 24, 2018, 02:45:52 PM »
21 and a half years at my current employer. Resigned 3 weeks ago, one week of notice to still work out.
New employment is only 11 minutes away from home saving 2.5 hours travel every day and 40000 k's on my vehicle every year down to 4000,  only one of many reasons for taking up a new challenge.
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #71 on: February 24, 2018, 03:59:02 PM »
29 years and 9 months..Just couldn,t put in the extra 3....Huge Australian comms company that was, and still is, turning into Shit. At 61 I said up yours and retired. :cheers:
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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #72 on: February 24, 2018, 04:36:12 PM »
Numerous jobs over the years since leaving school.

Norman Ross 9 years

Retravision 6 months

Chandlers 6 months

Bing lee 3 years

Harvey Norman 5 years

Ray White  9 years

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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #73 on: February 24, 2018, 05:29:59 PM »
Quote from: McGirr on February 24, 2018, 04:36:12 PM
Numerous jobs over the years since leaving school.

Norman Ross 9 years

Retravision 6 months

Chandlers 6 months

Bing lee 3 years

Harvey Norman 5 years

Ray White  9 years

On the road traveling for over 3 years working in different jobs in different places. Best thing I ever done...

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Re: Years with employer
« Reply #74 on: February 24, 2018, 05:33:26 PM »
Quote from: Hairs on February 24, 2018, 05:29:59 PM
You dirty, dirty, lucky buggar
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