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Old 05-11-2024, 04:09 PM
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During my grade school years my father worked as a sales clerk at a Montgomery Ward store. He noticed that as long time salesclerks were nearing their magic retirement date, when their defined benefit plan would become effective, the company fired them. These were hard working people with years at the company. He saw the writing on the wall and found work elsewhere. This was during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
It's good that he had that opportunity. We didn't. No one got fired, in our case. The department was eliminated. It ceased to exist.