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wachuko said:
Co-worker moved from Colorado Springs to Arizona because she could no longer deal with the cold weather.... I wonder how she is doing now...
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Probably loving it most of the time. I'm a transplant from Oregon. While working there some years back I had a coworker who came from Phoenix. He said it was "just too damn hot". Took almost three years of constant gray before he moved back...

GsT
 
ltlvt said:
So far today I have done Nothing. It is so hot here in North Texas the Mesquite trees are looking for shade. At 11:30 am this morning it was already 101 degrees F. The high this week was 113.
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Wait until you hit 63 like me. I don't use the weather as an excuse to do nothing anymore. I do nothing because I don't feel like doing anything!

I can't take credit for a buddy's quote regarding when it's time to retire, it goes something like: "When you have enough, and you've had enough, and you have something better to do, it's time to go".

Bruce
 
BGHansen said:
Wait until you hit 63 like me. I don't use the weather as an excuse to do nothing anymore. I do nothing because I don't feel like doing anything!

I can't take credit for a buddy's quote regarding when it's time to retire, it goes something like: "When you have enough, and you've had enough, and you have something better to do, it's time to go".

Bruce
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Bruce, that's kinda like my philosophy of age, I hit 60 this year and I no longer have any filters between my brain and my mouth. I said what I said and no apologies will be issued...
 
I’m at the age where too much cold, too much heat or too much humidity really messes with me.

Funny thing is, I used to be the guy who would put a spring coat on and be fine in -20c weather for hours.

Now, not so much.

built the attached garage as my workshop. Heated concrete floor and a heat pump make it comfy all year round for me. Same with my tractor: full cab and heater for winter. Can’t quite bring myself to add ac to it though.

I can’t quite decide if the climate has changed so much that I just can’t cope with it anymore or if its just that I’m getting old. Probably a bit of both…
 
BGHansen said:
Wait until you hit 63 like me. I don't use the weather as an excuse to do nothing anymore. I do nothing because I don't feel like doing anything!

I can't take credit for a buddy's quote regarding when it's time to retire, it goes something like: "When you have enough, and you've had enough, and you have something better to do, it's time to go".

Bruce
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I am 71. I retired at age 56.
 
BGHansen said:
Wait until you hit 63 like me. I don't use the weather as an excuse to do nothing anymore. I do nothing because I don't feel like doing anything!

I can't take credit for a buddy's quote regarding when it's time to retire, it goes something like: "When you have enough, and you've had enough, and you have something better to do, it's time to go".

Bruce
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There are plenty of us in the same boat. We don't need no stinkin excuse to do nothin. It just comes naturally. As for having had enough, I think it's a combination of the business changing over the years, and the fact that it's just that much harder to convince yourself you want to change with it.

In my case I spent years designing and improving packaging equipment in an effort to keep the company the leaders in it's field. When the latest round of management came along, they decided they wanted to change direction. They thought the company reputation would command premium prices regardless of the quality of the product. They didn't want to spend money to develop state of the art machinery. They wanted to get rid of the overhead and buy the same equipment that was being used by our competitors. They closed down the Machine Design department, got rid of the machine shops, and support personnel, and relied on outside vendors to build and maintain machinery.

This fall the last of the inhouse designed and built machinery will be phased out. We'll see how the company does. The replacement machinery runs at about 60% of the speed of the equipment it's replacing and requires almost double the number of people to run it.
 
projectnut said:
There are plenty of us in the same boat. We don't need no stinkin excuse to do nothin. It just comes naturally. As for having had enough, I think it's a combination of the business changing over the years, and the fact that it's just that much harder to convince yourself you want to change with it.

In my case I spent years designing and improving packaging equipment in an effort to keep the company the leaders in it's field. When the latest round of management came along, they decided they wanted to change direction. They thought the company reputation would command premium prices regardless of the quality of the product. They didn't want to spend money to develop state of the art machinery. They wanted to get rid of the overhead and buy the same equipment that was being used by our competitors. They closed down the Machine Design department, got rid of the machine shops, and support personnel, and relied on outside vendors to build and maintain machinery.

This fall the last of the inhouse designed and built machinery will be phased out. We'll see how the company does. The replacement machinery runs at about 60% of the speed of the equipment it's replacing and requires almost double the number of people to run i
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I always thought quantity over quality was a poor business model....
 
projectnut said:
There are plenty of us in the same boat. We don't need no stinkin excuse to do nothin. It just comes naturally. As for having had enough, I think it's a combination of the business changing over the years, and the fact that it's just that much harder to convince yourself you want to change with it.

In my case I spent years designing and improving packaging equipment in an effort to keep the company the leaders in it's field. When the latest round of management came along, they decided they wanted to change direction. They thought the company reputation would command premium prices regardless of the quality of the product. They didn't want to spend money to develop state of the art machinery. They wanted to get rid of the overhead and buy the same equipment that was being used by our competitors. They closed down the Machine Design department, got rid of the machine shops, and support personnel, and relied on outside vendors to build and maintain machinery.

This fall the last of the inhouse designed and built machinery will be phased out. We'll see how the company does. The replacement machinery runs at about 60% of the speed of the equipment it's replacing and requires almost double the number of people to run it.
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Oh how i can relate to this. After 29 years of loyal service and personal sacrafice my job was relocated to Mexico. I actually was part of the relocation team of another product out of Kettering Ohio. Trying to get my 30 in so I could retire. That did no good . I lived in Mexico for 8 months expecting to retire and after moving all the products outside the USA they bankrupted only North America. In order to do this it had to be a part of the 5 year plan. I learned while there as soon as the product relocation was complete it was going to move out of Mexico to China. Parts of the job had already been located to India and moved again to Mexico. If you connect the dots the ones that kept their jobs were the ones that did nothing towards making the product. Engineers were glad to keep moving products all over the world. Accounting was already flying back and forth to China and working from their homes and the same with PC&L. Long story short they quit paying me to be pi$$ed off June 1st 2008. So I had to personally detox myself of all the anger over all of it. So here I am Loving Life doing what I want to do with my little dog "Snuggles" and delighted to resurect the antique and vintage machine tools that made our country what it is today. Meet Snuggles here
 
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ltlvt said:
Oh how i can relate to this. After 29 years of loyal service and personal sacrafice my job was relocated to Mexico. I actually was part of the relocation team of another product out of Kettering Ohio. Trying to get my 30 in so I could retire. That did no good . I lived in Mexico for 8 months expecting to retire and after moving all the products outside the USA they bankrupted only North America. In order to do this it had to be a part of the 5 year plan. I learned while there as soon as the product relocation was complete it was going to move out of Mexico to China. Parts of the job had already been located to India and moved again to Mexico. If you connect the dots the ones that kept their jobs were the ones that did nothing towards making the product. Engineers were glad to keep moving products all over the world. Accounting was already flying back and forth to China and working from their homes and the same with PC&L. Long story short they quit paying me to be pi$$ed off June 1st 2008. So I had to personally detox myself of all the anger over all of it. So here I am Loving Life doing what I want to do with my little dog "Snuggles" and delighted to resurect the antique and vintage machine tools that made our country what it is today. Meet Snuggles here
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I see your dog is about as obedience trained as mine…lol!
 
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