I am officially RETIRED, Yee ha!

41 years, 11 months, and 3 days, but who's counting Strange feeling knowing that I won't have to get up at 3:30 in the morning anymore It took me almost 4 days to go around and say bye to just about everyone I know. Almost 9000 people working in Savannah and I think I shook hands and hugged about 1000 of them.

Way to go Doug, probably need a day or two to get the feeling back in your hand.

Congrats Doug but now long will it take to get a new sleep habit your body will still say get your butt up out of bed and your mind will say .

Hell i only did 24 years military and i still get up 4:30 EVERY MORNING
  And ive been retired for 10 years already.

Congrats Dugger, I can't wait too follow you.

Congrats Pappy!

Congrats on your Retirement!!

Congrat's ! Thats one long stint !! I worked 16 years on the bench as a mechanic before coming back to work on the farm in '88 (27 years!)
Frank

Way to go Grandpa. You should get a Congressional Medal of Honor for staying with one job that long.

nice doug ,, keep active and enjoy it ,, you desereve it ,, good luck and much happiness

Congrats Doug I'm sure you will find plenty to keep you busy.

Hope you enjoy your retirement!

Nice news Doug. Welcome to the old retired farts club!
No excuse to not come to the races. (Can't get off work....)
Project Econo Tow should be finished soon!
Congrats
Keith

Oh
I will drop the 58 off so you can draw it in SolidWorks.

Congrats Doug, hopefully you won't do what my mom did and turn old.

Doug, You've been officially RETARDED now for years! Didn't your brother or anybody ever tell you that?

Anyway, congrats!

Charlie

Congratulations Doug.

Next month you can start looking for a part time job for extra spending cash like all my other retired friends. lol.

congrats

that a great milestone and do enjoy yourself !

Thank you all very much! Man what a ride it was, lots of memories.

Wheelie58 wrote:Oh
I will drop the 58 off so you can draw it in SolidWorks.

Boy, I wish I had the SolidWorks program  

c.evans wrote:Doug, You've been officially RETARDED now for years!  Didn't your brother or anybody ever tell you that?

Anyway, congrats!

Charlie

What you talkin' about Charlie, you've been retarded longer than me,      

jasonf wrote:Congratulations Doug.

Next month you can start looking for a part time job for extra spending cash like all my other retired friends. lol.

Funny you should mentioned that. When I went to HR for my exit interview the HR Rep. said that they were looking at putting together a group of retirees to come in as consultants on probably a quarterly basis to help resolve issues that may come up in production. She put my name on the call list when they work out the details. I said fine as long as the money is good .




Back in Dec. just the before the Christmas Holidays my Dept. totally caught me off guard with a retirement luncheon. I thought I was going to a second meeting about a serious issue some guys on the Final Line caused which ended up being a skin change and they wanted my input on how to do it. Well, when I walked into our Conference Rm with my Boss, the whole Dept. was there, room was decorated and food on the table    . Our MBU Executive Assistant decorated the room with a racing theme  









My Manager made a nice long speech, and figured that in my almost 42 years I had worked 80,000 plus hours and approximately another 20,000 hours of overtime.




I was presented with several nice gifts, two of them being a dept group photo mounted that everyone signed and a really nice Gulfstream watch.

Congratulations Doug! Enjoy your retirement bud! Project econo-tow will be done before you know it! Lol.

It is nice to see you made it and they recognize it. So many companies layoff long term employees to save money so I am happy for you.

Congrats you old Phart...

When we going racing ???

QtrWarrior wrote:Congrats you old Phart...

When we going racing ???

My car isn't ready, but anytime you want to take yours somewhere just say the word.

Looks like most of them in the picture are young enough to be your grandkids.....lol And they are probably just there to make sure the old effer is really leaving lol.

Oh and congratulations.

Wheelie58 wrote:Oh
I will drop the 58 off so you can draw it in SolidWorks.

Drop it off here and I'll draw it up in Inventor 2015