Milling yard is moving!

[BobL]

retirement countdown.

Today was somewhat momentous as I had a meeting with my line manger regarding my upcoming retirement - it's just 3 weeks away now.

He told me that he does not want me to do any more work!
He just wants me to watch my replacements and help them if need advice etc and check that their work is OK. This leaves me twiddling my thumbs a bit but I think I can cope with this for 3 weeks. Of course I can always find stuff to do. I have started cleaning out my office and got rid of about 10 garbage bins of paper into the paper recycling dumpster.

Even stranger was a discussion about what sort of retirement party I would like - he wants to have two parties, which is fine with me.

 

[820wards]

Today was somewhat momentous as I had a meeting with my line manger regarding my upcoming retirement - it's just 3 weeks away now.

He told me that he does not want me to do any more work!
He just wants me to watch my replacements and help them if need advice etc and check that their work is OK. This leaves me twiddling my thumbs a bit but I think I can cope with this for 3 weeks. Of course I can always find stuff to do. I have started cleaning out my office and got rid of about 10 garbage bins of paper into the paper recycling dumpster.

Even stranger was a discussion about what sort of retirement party I would like - he wants to have two parties, which is fine with me.

Bob,

Good to hear you are almost retired. When I retired I had my party at the local gun range I belong to. Everyone got to shoot some traps and one woman enjoyed it so much she went out and bought a new 12ga. and became a member of the club. Another person said that my party was the only retirement party that included guns.

Enjoy your party's Bob and get plenty of pictures with your co-workers to remember the day.

jerry-

 

[BobL]

Bob,
Good to hear you are almost retired. When I retired I had my party at the local gun range I belong to. Everyone got to shoot some traps and one woman enjoyed it so much she went out and bought a new 12ga. and became a member of the club. Another person said that my party was the only retirement party that included guns.
Enjoy your party's Bob and get plenty of pictures with your co-workers to remember the day.
jerry-

Cheers Jerry - I don't really feel a need to celebrate anything other than perhaps, somewhat cynically, escaping the place with my sanity and health partially intact. I'm going along with the parties because I know the average person attending will want to say goodbye and I do want to take the opportunity to publicly thank a few workmates. I would be happier to just get some take out vietnamese or local fish and chips and sit by the river with a couple of beers. Instead pretty much no matter what I ask for the firm will host some sort of 'corporate event', that will include administrators in suits and hangers on that don't really know me and some that I don't like, some making speeches full of empty generic cliches. I will definitely NOT be wearing anything other than jeans and a shirt, or maybe even short pants because (apart from when I had something formal to attend) I wore short pants to work from September to May for the last 23 years. Fortunately in some ways, another older and more senior Prof is also retiring and we are having a joint function - thankfully he will take the limelight.

 

[BobL]

It's my last day at work today.
The "official" retirement party is tomorrow but the Dept staff held an informal lunch for me last Tuesday.

There is also a tradition of giving silly gifts (Usually a piece of junk from the basement) to retiring staff and having done it to others I had to suffer, but it was not too painful.

The gifts were;
- a "4 kb (yes that is 4 kilobytes) magnetic core memory from the first (1966) Departmental computer, will updated USB connectivity! Thousands of little ferrite cores threaded with fine wires.
- the keys to the Department Mechanical workshop on a giant key fob (I have a habit of leaving the shop open) made out of a 1970s GM chrome hubcap and some chain.
This means I get indefinite access to the mechanical workshop which is great because although I have a fairly good home shop there are many things metalwise I cannot do in my shop.

The other guy in the photo is Glen, the lab manager who I worked with for 25 years - top bloke.

 

[GeeVee]

Bob,

Good to hear you are almost retired. When I retired I had my party at the local gun range I belong to. Everyone got to shoot some traps and one woman enjoyed it so much she went out and bought a new 12ga. and became a member of the club. Another person said that my party was the only retirement party that included guns.

Enjoy your party's Bob and get plenty of pictures with your co-workers to remember the day.

jerry-

They wanted to be armed, in case you went postal. A party at a gun range wasn't suspicious that way....

 

[GeeVee]

It's my last day at work today.
The "official" retirement party is tomorrow but the Dept staff held an informal lunch for me last Tuesday.

There is also a tradition of giving silly gifts (Usually a piece of junk from the basement) to retiring staff and having done it to others I had to suffer, but it was not too painful.

The gifts were;
- a "4 kb (yes that is 4 kilobytes) magnetic core memory from the first (1966) Departmental computer, will updated USB connectivity! Thousands of little ferrite cores threaded with fine wires.
- the keys to the Department Mechanical workshop on a giant key fob (I have a habit of leaving the shop open) made out of a 1970s GM chrome hubcap and some chain.
This means I get indefinite access to the mechanical workshop which is great because although I have a fairly good home shop there are many things metalwise I cannot do in my shop.

The other guy in the photo is Glen, the lab manager who I worked with for 25 years - top bloke

Enjoy Bob, really.

 

[820wards]

It's my last day at work today.

Looks like they are all pretty darn good friends. Hope you enjoy the final party.

Good Luck!

jerry-

 

[Daninvan]

Congratulations Bob! I am also looking forward to seeing more postings of your milling and your shop. And hopefully in your retirement you will be doing some travel, perhaps even out this way!

Cheers,

Dan

 

[BobL]

Congratulations Bob! I am also looking forward to seeing more postings of your milling and your shop. And hopefully in your retirement you will be doing some travel, perhaps even out this way!

Cheers,

Dan

Could be :msp_biggrin: