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So I work for a utility. Let’s just call it GPC. They recently announced a Voluntary Attrition Plan (VAP) which basically pays about 700 GPC employees to retire at the end of March. Today they announce that employees retiring as part of the VAP are not allowed to have retirement parties. The retirement policy is that GPC gives each retiree a budget of 1/3 of their monthly salary for their retirement party.
While any employee with more that 10 years of employment with GPC qualified for the VAP, most of the people who are choosing to retire have been with GPC for 30+ years. These people were planning to retire in the next year or two and now they can’t celebrate their years of dedicated service with their families and coworkers.
It seems to me that a company that has elliminated raises and is asking its employees to cut costs could at least afford to treat its most experienced employees a little better than, “Thanks for all your work, now get out!”
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