BBe

June 18, 2005

It Happened Again

Last week I worked Monday and Tuesday only. Wednesday Justin was released from jail, and I picked him up at 5:30 a.m. We stopped to have a nice breakfast on the way home.

I had no real plans for the rest of the week. My thought was to do odd chores around the house. There always seems to be something that needs attending to. As long as its something I can handle, I dont mind. Too often its something that I dont have a clue how to fix or work on. Still, I always get by somehow, thankfully.

Late Wednesday morning I got a call from work, asking if I could come in for an unscheduled meeting. I declined because of a commitment. Later on in the day, I found out that our company had been sold. There had been rumors for a couple of weeks, but there always seems to be rumors. I dont pay much attention to them. To say the least I was shocked. I hoped against hope that this would not happen, only for one reason. I now have not only lost my retirement benefits via the spin-off from 3M to Imation, but as of this week, Ive lost my bridge, which basically means that Ill be working until I die. Where I would have been able to retire in 6 years, I now dont see me being able to retire until I reach 62 and am able to collect social security. (should it still be there when and if Im of age to collect)

I am SO pissed off. I mean, now Im feeling better and somewhat more accepting, but originally I was just damn mad to think that I could work for a place for 30 years, and in the end be left so poorly. I realize that this is the new way of corporate America. That doesnt make it right, and it doesnt make me feel any better. When is our government going to stand up for us, as much as they do for the Iraqis?

On top of all that, the insurance plan that is offered to us is quite a bit less than weve ever had. Dont these people know that Ive recently inherited 13 rifles and 5 pistols?

Today, the thing Im most grateful for is being a nonviolent person.

Miss_Shyann

June 19, 2005

Wow, that really sucks. I’m sorry, hopefully things get better for you (and your family)

wanderlust (2)

future retirement plans are scary indeed. I had to cash in my retirement from the state when Hubs & I moved to Tucson. I remember a month after Hubs was transplanted we did a high five & said we made it without loosing everything. Now I’m hoping we can get our big place sold with a profit & live more meagerly afterwards. I really don’t want to leave Alaska, but travel for medical is so expensive.

So sorry for you lose too. It’s hard to know what SS might be like by the time we are old enough to collect. We are the same age. I will be 51 in July, how about you?

Jeanne

June 20, 2005

🙁 – this seems to be everywhere right now. I am so sorry.

~Katherine

This is so NOT RIGHT. Corporations can take legal action if employees screw with them but employees evidentally have no guarantee of anything. I would be furious, too. I will have to work until I die, too but that’s my fault. In the meantime, if I get sick and can’t work, I have no income. Scarey stuff. I loved your closing lines. Hugs,

ThomaS

What a complete shame. I feel so badly for you.

You said something that stopped me from blinking. Something that many think all the time but when you said it this time it’s like I finally heard IT. The govt is standing up for everyone except us. They find more money than everyday but education and the list goes on and on can’t find a dime to help. I’m sorry for what you are going through. I am so sorry. I wish there was something I coudl do.

Sunshine Wolf

June 22, 2005

Gawd that SUCKS. As for your inheritance……too funny. Got me to thinking about my eventual inheritance. That’s my dad’s hobby – gun collecting. Gives new meaning to the saying “I’ve got PMS and a gun…any questions?”

chutes+

June 27, 2005

That’s terrible. I didn’t know you could lose 30 years’ worth of pension just because the company was sold!

Maui Jim

July 1, 2005

Aloha nui loa… Ryn: Yep… too bad we don’t live closer to one another… cause a walk sure would be nice… Smiles………..

Linda Kay

July 2, 2005

I don’t understand how you could have lost all your retirement. My God! Have you talked to an attorney? Has any of the employees? If true, B, you and I are in the same boat. I have to work until I can no longer work. Now even SS seems to be threatened. Hugs,

ryn: Your kind words made my morning — Thank you!

goodgolly

if only they had realized you are heavily armed!

They don’t care for ordinary working people. Profit is everything in the soulless corperate world.

Jenni*leigh

July 4, 2005

RYN: thank you for the note and for stoping by to read my diary, never thought about the laugh the undertaker is going to get from it, LOL poor guy hope he doesn’t need an undertaker after… I have seen the sick man thing, that is what gave me the idea, loven Beaver so much I couldn’t pass up on that one… LOL… Sorry about the work thing, fugures though, Sorry…

July 5, 2005

RYN: thanks. yeah I’ve been accused on cornering the market on over reacting – unfortunately I do not believe that is the case now. All I can do now is hope he has the strength to go through with his promise. Doesn’t matter how old they get – when your child hurts, you hurt.

Life's Snakes and Ladders

July 7, 2005

they shouldnt be allowed to do that. ryn; ive got people around, i just feel so mad towards them all. thankyou for caring 🙂 xxx

pollyanna

July 20, 2005

Thinking of you *hug*

sophist

*smooch*

July 21, 2005

thankyou for your kind notes. hope you are well. take care xx

July 22, 2005

RYN: Yep, Crocs will definitely be comfortable to a wide foot. 😉

August 14, 2005

ryn; day patient would be a good way to ease into it. i dont really know how i feel about it. i keep thinking that other people need it more than me, and if i went in then i’ll be letting people down. i’l just have to see what happens on fri. thankyou for the note. hope you’re well. take care xxx

August 19, 2005

Aloha… Ryn: No… sorry… the only pic of Em that I have is one that Bonnie Rose (O.D.) sent me (a copy she made of Em standing next to the elephant)… To date I have heard nothing from her mom… nor have I received anything of Em’s… Frustrating… I hope with the passage of time… Em’s mom will rethink her own mean-spiritedness But then Em is gone so I suppose it doesn’t matter…

August 23, 2005

total injustice. Are you absolutely certain you won’t get any retirement. I mean retirement plans are supposed to be vested & secure. I don’t understand how something like this could happen. I know it happens when a member of the retirement program has embezzeled funds etc. but this doesn’t sound right at all. I hope your retirement was protected. Thanks for stopping by & saying hi too.

Duke

August 24, 2005

ryn: Funny you should ask that question, as I have in front of me a list of 6 “noodledocs” who haven’t seen fit to either answer the phone or return my call.

September 1, 2005

ryn: Oh. nothing slides neatly into a skull like a #14 phillips. You have to kinda swing through, though. The corpus collusum tends to be a little gristly.

ryn: You have no idea how much I needed that laugh!