2016 Budget

Mr "M" is coming up for his work-related "retirement" later this year and ... he's dreading it!
So he's a) put in a request for an extension (which is most unlikely to be granted); and b) putting the feelers out in other areas but within the same field

 

Hey you @longk, I NEVER said those words. I was quoting a statement made by a relation. I take offense at you pulling these words out of context which could lead people who are just joining this thread to think I actually believe that. Naughty, naughty

 

I don't think @longk would have done that on purpose @CanadianLori. It does read as if you said it, whereas in fact, you were quoting someone else

 

I went back and edited that thread to include He said and added quotation marks to make sure no one else makes the same assumption. Thank you for pointing this out. I'm guessing we Canucks try a little too hard to be succinct. ..

 

Most of the retired people I know find that they now don't understand how they used to have time to go to work - they keep busy and are very happy

 

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Cripes! I was expecting to get my bits chewed off a bit but not for someone else's grammatical error
It reads much differently now that you have removed ownership of what turned out to be a quote

 

Now Now ladies and Gents let's not come to blows on here over the misuse of .'s and ,'s

@NorthantsGeezer we don't have any major plans apart from holidays that is One of my sisters asked me a few years ago what our five year plan was and I replied "I will let you know in five years time" We are going to take each day depending on how we feel each morning when our body clock wakes us up as opposed to the clock radio waking us up.If it is a nice sunny day we shall probably get a walk in after brekkie is over,or we might pop to the shops for supplies or we might go off for a spot of birdwatching,or just doing a Shiney and potter round the garden measuring the lawn edges we need to cut(I do so love this smiley )

We will Definetley keep as active as possible because if we don't we shall seize up or die depending what comes first Hope you are keeping well and not getting too stressed trying to pay two mortgages

@"M" Sorry to hear your hubby is not looking forward to his retirement and hope that he gets the extension he is looking for or another job in his field You saying that about the dread of retirement but i imagine if he enjoys his job and hasn't got many hobbies then it could become a dread,which luckily for us we have lots of hobbies and also a large allotment plot so there is enough there to keep us busy and I expect we could always join the Lego club if we get bored

 

Heavens, I would never gnaw on anyone's bits. ... but now you know why I am Grambo......

 

Its because the 'ordinary man on the street ' is merely a resource to be farmed by the elite.

Have you noticed that large corporations even gave up pretending to care? There used to be a 'personnel department' in big companies. The name at least included the word 'person' within 'personnel'. Now that department is called 'human resources'. The word 'human' sat right next to the word 'resources'. Pay day loan companies might publicly refer to their customers and potential customers as people, but really it's no secret that they're not there to help anyone. They too are simply farming the 'ordinary man in the street'.

 

Soylent Green.....

 

Next is spoil date.

As part time workers making minimum wage increase here so does the public service payroll. At a much higher hourly rate.

 

Not unlike my situation... Worked hard all my life . Now semi retired and 8 years away from pensionable age. My pension age is now 67. It should have been 65 but they who took a simply massive amount from me every year changed it to 67. They now want to change it to 70..

Pensions are supposedly protected. Well the amount may be but that does not stop the powers that be from moving it further away !

Yes I earned good money. Yes I had a great lifestyle but No I don't understand where all that money went.. I followed my dads way of thinking and doing things in playing a straight game. I declared what I earned and paid in like a ................................. Well a mug.... No way will I ever get to reap what I was forced to sow.. (See what I did there ? A gardening terminology ? )

IDS may have thrown in the towel......... I wonder what richard the third they have put in his place.