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Made redundant today and found out a interesting fact about the lads i work with .... , im one of 42 to go between now and august and between us all we have 816 years service !!
Ive only been there 12 years , but 1 bloke that finished today had been there 46 years !!! ..... he was 15 when he started
Whats your longest service ?
20 years january coming in the fire service , gets worse every day...lol 😀
I'll have been here 21 years in January.
just over 2 years at my LBS (although I did abandon them for 6 months while I was at uni).
working in the same place for 46 years takes some commitment, I don't think I could do the same thing for that long! (although I guess many jobs you're doing different stuff all the time!)
I am 34 and have worked here for 13 years, but in a lot of different jobs from marketing to sales to finance to operations. Its the only 'proper' job I've had if you only consider the fact that I've worked continously for the same company, did some temping before it.
24 years in a family business that went tits-up the beginning of last year.
18 months in current job.
23 yrs for me
Another 2 & I'm taking retirement
about 3.5 hours
8 years here.
2 months
Previously: 20 years
Previously: 8 years
Previously: I forget...
17 years with my current employer ....
Though just now I am not sure how much longer I'll be there 🙁 ( not through choice)
about 3.5 hours
so about long enough to find the "Internet Usage Policy", throw it in the bin and log on to STW.
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like your style
no no.. you misunderstand.. the OP asked for 'your longest service'..
mine is 3.5 hours
*4.5 years.
*Pre that 4 years.
*Pre that, I was a stoodent.
*Current 2 months
Not bad considering I'm 33....
I will have done 35 years this September and can't wait to get my pension when I have completed 40 years
Might even go before then if I can manage, really don't want to get another full time job if I leave
11 years here. There was a couple of blokes I worked with, jimmy and coggy, that retired only last year, who had worked together their whole lives having started off on the same apprentice intake, transfered when the company relocated and retired on the same day 😯 You'd think they'd be pretty fed up with each other after 45+ years, but you can still find them in the mens club every thursday night having a beer.
21 years come October.
5 years.
30 years for me...
I had 9 years at my old place, I haven't even started at my new place yet.
bloody hell - could think of nothing worse than years and years of service
my longest ever in one job was 4 years but that had enough travel to make it tolerable
don't you feel like you're missing out on so much by being in one place for so long?
and not wanting a fresh challenge every few years? very odd IMO
11 years in September.
Hoping I won't make it though 🙂
10 yrs
8 yrs at previous
7 years at mine, 2 years before that. iDave you forget that a lot of people won't have stayed in one ROLE within that company! I know I haven't done longer than about 18 months in one role within my current job.
20yrs done, 9 to go............meantime unless Dave changes that.
18 year. Only 24 more then I can die.
don't you feel like you're missing out on so much by being in one place for so long?and not wanting a fresh challenge every few years? very odd IMO
Technology has changed so much that my job has been constantly evolving during the last 35 years
Would never have thought when I was going round to customers houses fixing their one rented telephone that they would now be receiving their internet service on the same pair of copper wires
Another good reason to stay put for me is the final salary pension, they are nearly all closed to new entrants everywhere these days
Always been paid a fair rate and although I reached the highest engineering grade before management about twenty years ago never wanted to get any further
Also why give up a job that is mon-fri at normal hours, not many of them left these days
So no regrets and good luck to the people who do move around, wasn't for me though and now looking forward to early retirement thank you very much
iDave - Member
bloody hell - could think of nothing worse than years and years of servicemy longest ever in one job was 4 years but that had enough travel to make it tolerable
don't you feel like you're missing out on so much by being in one place for so long?
and not wanting a fresh challenge every few years? very odd IMO
11 years in my company. Have done a few jobs in that time though.
However, if you are happy and comfortably challenged in a job, a bit of stability for the family does no harm. Having spent my childhood living in different countries and attending something like 10 different schools being in the same place for so long is a bit of a blessing.
Plus I'm happy in my job and have enough free time to spend with my family and biking.
5 months today as a volunteer with Voluntary Services Overseas.
I moved to Ethiopia on the 1st February, and my placement with the VSO is for 2 years.
Its hard work, but without a doubt the best thing I have ever done.
16 years so far, same company just different locations.
Today our firm announced that they are stopping long service awards 🙁
Its not the value of them just its going to save 4/5 of bugger all for a company with 30,000 employees and sales of $90 billion
22 years.
Two years and three months running my own business now.
I would find it hard to go back to being an employee.
9 years in the prison service. Still kicking my own ar$e for leaving the council when i was a plant & vehicle fitter, I wouldv'e been retired now with 38 years in. 😥
13 years for me living the dream in the raf.
10 yrs at this place.
longest i have worked anywhere, usually get bored after 6/7 years.
34 years next month and I finish 5th October. To answer iDave earlier and agree with TT, final salary pension and free first class rail travel for life have been massive pulls. I am 51 and will never 'need' to work again. Probably will do for a few extra's.
Also not the brightest or most confident so grateful I could get a decent salary for so long on my meagre qualifications.
Next job is as an adventure racer (TD2011) or something else equally unlikely....
iDave - Member
bloody hell - could think of nothing worse than years and years of service
my longest ever in one job was 4 years but that had enough travel to make it tolerabledon't you feel like you're missing out on so much by being in one place for so long?
and not wanting a fresh challenge every few years? very odd IMO
As above, would take a huge hike in pay for me to forfeit my final salary scheme, and I'm not worth that salary yet, every time I am I get promoted internally anyway it seems. Besides I've moved around the company enough to keep it interesting...
I walked away from a job with 25 years service,I valued my sanity more than the gold watch....
I spoke to a former colleague earlier, he described me as UNsane!!
5 years on Monday for me. In that time I've done four roles, second one was a move across and then two up.
12 years of shift work at the same place for me.The way it messes with your bodyclock is starting to take it's toll though.Still,keeps the wolves from the door. 🙂
just received my long service award, 40 years, but I'll be f*****g off to North Cape in two years (if Moira lets me)
5 years running this company, 2 years running the previous one, about 18 months max before that when working for others - I finally took the hint...
Self employed for 12 years I could never work for anyone else now
Really surprised at the length of service on this post.
10 years myself, although I did run away for 6 months before coming back to the fold.
5 years for me (not bad at 26!)
Did work with a guy who started at 15 so had 50yrs at retirement! Ker-azy
the wifes grandad started work aged 15 at the yorkshire copper works in leeds.
his best friend started there too on the same day.
they worked in differant workshops.
they both retired on the same day aged 65 yrs old.
and in all the time they worked there, they never saw each other at work.
he told me that over 10000 people worked there in it's heyday.
my mate rang me and asked if i wanted 2 days casual work
2 days turned into 10
then i was offered full time post
hell, that was in `85
.......still there!!!
13.5 years in the R.A.F, and just clocked up 10 with latest employer. last 15 years doing 2days, 2 nights 4 days off shift pattern.
1 month, its brilliant, should really be working though
93-01, 4 different jobs, max 2 years and one redundancy.
01-present, self employed, not sure I could ever work for anybody else (probably unemployable anyway)
Only 32 years so far and apart from a few months enjoyed every minute of it
2 and a halfs years with current employer
7 with the one before
Before that I took the view that working was a bit silly
I think I am going to go full circle
10years 10months 2days.
Technology is forever changing, and I enjoy certain parts of the job, but it is starting to grind me down (mainly cause I seem to end up with others shit because they can't be bothered, yet nothing is ever said about their incompetence to even manage simple jobs).
It's certainly not what I want to spend the next 30years doing, but the benefits and pension make it a hard job to leave :-/
37 years on September 3rd (only 35 years in the pension scheme though).
crikey! looking at some of these replies i feel like a part-timer i've only been at my current workplace 5yrs and 18mths of that was with an agency( the boss couldn't make his mind up!)and thats my longest period of employment ever!.
29 years this year, only came as a temp! - and now praying that the public sector cuts will give me a way out......... sick to death of the way the Department is going!
16 Years in the same company (though through several name and overall colour changes). Did my apprenticeship there and always maintained once I'd completed that and got a few years experience I was emigrating to Canadia. Started earning gooood money on call out, joined the great pension scheme and haven't managed to make the break yet !! Although with the way the company is going/being run, I may do soon, just to retain some sense of sanity !
My uncle did 51 years minus a day for the forestry commision. started the day after his 14th birthday and they made him go on the first Friday he happened to be 65. His birthday!
Third job since leaving school in 1974 - never been out of work either - current job 17yrs.
current job 4 months & counting
Most time at one company 7 years 11 months, would probably still be there if they'd not shut down due to the excellent salary meaning I'd never have become a LBS spanner monkey, worse pay much better job 😀
3 months. Though the 3-on, 3-off shift pattern isn't too bad once you get used to the 4am starts.
12 years on the Post out of 28 working years,feel like a change might go bike guiding for a year or so!
Had the nod I think the other half has had enough of me 😕
Longest was 3.5 years. One day done so far with current employer.
36 years, started at 16 🙂 3 years to retirement at 55 but will start new job then. TBH I have really enjoyed it and still am.