Argument with the boss

[sac468]

Just before christmas I had an argument with my boss regarding the company car usage, as a reult I handed mine back and am now riding to work every day, and loving it.

[Biggles]

Will he have the last laugh from May to September?

[saaz]

On the ST the Canberra cold period is not that bad for riding, you just have to keep an eye out for ice/black ice in places.  Now on a naked bike, I lost feeling in my hands once and locked up the front brake, nearly dropped the bike.  This only going 16kms to work.

[Streak]

I am lucky with my Boss, he lets me load the work van full of BBQ equipment drive it 200km to a group of wild men with bikes, feed them, pack it up again and drive it 200km home!

great boss that one....great boss.....as you can see the Hip Pocket Van in the background......lol

[Biggles]

He should be paying you for driving a mobile advertising billboard!!

[West Aussie Glen]

Last time I argued with my boss was the day after I had been to a good friends funeral, after telling the boss a few home truths I retired early, best thing I ever did.

[sac468]

I would love to retire but financially it would be suicide.

[saaz]

I am thinking about whether to retire early, or just keep on not going to work which I am now getting the hang of 

[Whizz]

When I got my redundancy payout in June last year I sat back and thought long and hard about whether to go back to work or not, then the China thing rose above the horizon and I've been talking to them on and off since and not really thinking too much about work per se.  But I've found myself over the last few weeks, since just before Christmas I suppose, getting more and more restless sitting at home, it's been too stinking hot to take any great pleasure from riding and I have really felt at a loose end. Then when I got the call from the recruiter about going contracting I realised that I was actually missing going to work. Now I realise that it is a strange concept because when I'm at work all I want to do is be home...or anywhere else really, but this last six months has shown me quite clearly that I am destined to keep working till I expire. Now I'm not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I do know that I am happier with a job to get up and go to.

My 5c worth on a complex and difficult subject to get your head around.

 

[West Aussie Glen]

When I got my redundancy payout in June last year I sat back and thought long and hard about whether to go back to work or not, then the China thing rose above the horizon and I've been talking to them on and off since and not really thinking too much about work per se.  But I've found myself over the last few weeks, since just before Christmas I suppose, getting more and more restless sitting at home, it's been too stinking hot to take any great pleasure from riding and I have really felt at a loose end. Then when I got the call from the recruiter about going contracting I realised that I was actually missing going to work. Now I realise that it is a strange concept because when I'm at work all I want to do is be home...or anywhere else really, but this last six months has shown me quite clearly that I am destined to keep working till I expire. Now I'm not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I do know that I am happier with a job to get up and go to.

My 5c worth on a complex and difficult subject to get your head around.

 

Fully understand your position Whizz but I have at east 10 years of neglect to both home and vehicles to catch up on plus grand father duties and a whle lot of travelling.

[Whizz]

Glen, I wasn't being critical in any way, I quite understand why some want to retire and some don't...I'm one of the 'donts' I suppose. I have no kids, the house is good, my wife still works full time, we have two new(ish) cars and the monSTer, so there isn't much for me to do round here other than swim in the pool to make sure the water still works.

When you get to our age I really think that retirement or not has to be purely a personal decision based on the particular circumstances that pertain to your life. That's why I think it is ridiculous for the government to mandate a retirement age for anyone. Anyway that is why I put forward my viewpoint, it was not meant to come across as a criticism...honest 

[saaz]

At 53 I got the voluntary redundancy package a year out from when I was planning to leave anyway.  Paid for more than a year of not going to work and still better off.  I was in the space of not really wanting to go to work any more as too much politics (the real sort dealing with federal parliament and ministers) and nothing really being done in terms of worthwhile reforms. I suppose I was spoilt with having done so many things over the years that lead to meaningful progress for Australia - that sort of vision has been lacking for quite a few years now (goes back to the last years of the Howard government as well, so nothing to do with current government).

Whether I do anything else yet I don't know. Once I get the stress out of the system I will think about it.  What I used to to is rather specialised, and I don't want to have to play the game to get back on the treadmill, get contracts or have to deal with politicians and politics ever again.

In fact don't want to run or be responsible for anything much - so how did I end up organising ozstoc stuff 

[West Aussie Glen]

Glen, I wasn't being critical in any way, I quite understand why some want to retire and some don't...I'm one of the 'donts' I suppose. I have no kids, the house is good, my wife still works full time, we have two new(ish) cars and the monSTer, so there isn't much for me to do round here other than swim in the pool to make sure the water still works.

When you get to our age I really think that retirement or not has to be purely a personal decision based on the particular circumstances that pertain to your life. That's why I think it is ridiculous for the government to mandate a retirement age for anyone. Anyway that is why I put forward my viewpoint, it was not meant to come across as a criticism...honest 

Paul,
I didn't think it was critical at all. There were parts of my job that I loved and got a lot of satisfation from and would even go back and do almost for nothing.
Unfortunately OH and S in the resources industry has lost the plot, defiintely in the oil and gas industry where I spent the last 18 years of my working life.
Don't get me wrong I am a great beliver in working safely but these days people are more interested in covering their backside then really working safely.
Like you my wife is still working, good to have some one paying the bills 

[sac468]

At only 44 I still have a while to go (hurry up powerball win), but looking at my super I think that I will be working till im 100 at least. 

[saaz]

I know of a few people at work who were told by their wives that they preferred them to stay at work as they could not stand them being around home too much 

[Brock]

but looking at my super I think that I will be working till im 100 at least. 

Lucky Bastard....

I will still have to work well after i'm long dead......

[Biggles]

but looking at my super I think that I will be working till im 100 at least. 

Lucky Bastard....

I will still have to work well after i'm long dead......

Were you the guy who was brought up in a cardboard carton and your family envied the one who lived in a corridor?  I've heard about your suffering before.   

[saaz]

Better than living in hole in road 

[Sabie]

We used to get up an hour before we went to bed, clean our lake and our father would kill us before we went to bed.