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[Pax]

Hiya CC!

BSG, it looks like it was the year of weddings, congrats!! My honey and I tied the knot as well, feels pretty awesome doesn't it?

[Pax]

Freedom!

I'm having one of those small yet momentous days today. I've had my civil service earliest-possible-retirement date circled on my calendar for the last year. As of last Saturday (I did have to work today to lock in the time) I have my time in to retire. I can walk out the door of this place any time I want to now and they have to pay me my retirement pittance (and it is a pittance, but it's MY pittance) for the rest of my life!!! I feel very free all of a sudden.

Our plan is to work until May and then move to our little place in FL while my honey telecommutes for a while... but as of today we can go whenever the hell we want!!!!!

[snapdragen]

Congrat Pax! It's a liberating feeling, isn't it?

[Pax]

Congrat Pax! It's a liberating feeling, isn't it?

Thanks, it really is! I'm just sitting here at my desk grinning... and partially hoping no one pisses me off today, it's a whole new ballgame.

[IBrakeforPastry]

Thanks, it really is! I'm just sitting here at my desk grinning... and partially hoping no one pisses me off today, it's a whole new ballgame.

Congratulations! I reached my earliest retirement date on Oct 31, and left. I submitted my papers in September (I think) and for the next several weeks, my manager kept looking at me and saying, "She's still smiling". So, keep smiling!

[Pax]

I will never be there. Please enjoy it for me. Congrats!!

Congratulations! I reached my earliest retirement date on Oct 31, and left. I submitted my papers in September (I think) and for the next several weeks, my manager kept looking at me and saying, "She's still smiling". So, keep smiling!

If it was an amount I could live on I'd be gone today, but it's very small and will only cover our housing costs on the condo in FL when we move in May. But, hey, I'll take it!!

[Trek420]

Thanks, it really is! I'm just sitting here at my desk grinning... and partially hoping no one pisses me off today, it's a whole new ballgame.

Looking forward to the call where the customer says
"whatcha gonna do about that for me, huh?"
"Hmmm. I quit!" Click release call

[Pax]

Looking forward to the call where the customer says
"whatcha gonna do about that for me, huh?"
"Hmmm. I quit!" Click release call

Absolutely!

[Trek420]

Absolutely!

Ya know I've gotten to see so many reps take that last call. We knew these reps who are retiring the next day so you know that last call of the day, that's it. Invariably just excellent. I do think there was one rep that I could not help just pausing to listen and obviously the customer thanked and complimented him and it was just "I retire tomorrow. After 35 years mam, you are my last call" I don't think I'd just be able to hang up. We can't bring ourselves to.

Call of the day today; grandma got her 11 year old grandson an iPhone 6 (when I was your age we were happy with crayons). The rep told him, with her on the line, we need to reset it by resetting network settings.

Kid threw it against the wall.

Phone still works and granny gave it back to him. The wall reset would be the end for me.

[snapdragen]

Thanks, it really is! I'm just sitting here at my desk grinning... and partially hoping no one pisses me off today, it's a whole new ballgame.

That's how my work life ended. Manager pissed me off for the last time, I walked. It was awesome. She was stunned.

[bmccasland]

Making a reappearance....
In the past couple of years, I've had ACL repair (bike crash related), had whooping cough, had two bad wasp stings (with ambulance trips to the ER), sold my Louisiana house, bought a condo, and gained weight. So I've now lost 15 pounds, still don't like riding in rain, but am trying to increase my exercise.

Hi everyone!! I have missed y'all.

[Crankin]

Glad you are back, Beth!
My son had whooping cough in 8th grade, and by the time he was diagnosed, I thought for sure he was dying. I hope you rested well!
It's never too late to come back to cycling.

[Blueberry]

Freedom!

Happy dance for you!!! Sometimes things become so much more pleasant when you *know* you can end them *whenever you need to*! Congratulations!!

[Helene2013]

So happy for you Pax. I can't wait to get there...3 or 5 years to go and it seems soooooo far.

[ny biker]

I will never be there. Please enjoy it for me. Congrats!!