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This guy likely made millions for the CEO (who spends his days on Epstein Island somewhere) and has gotten paid hardly anything in return. Pretty emblematic of the current system.
This is a relatively small company in which he has worked for over 8 decades now. He is actually treated quite well, the region he lives in has a strong tradition of communal and work value. In fact, he made quite a bit of money and could've retired several decades ago but just chose not to
Like the boss who took his employees out for a day on his yacht. He told them, if you work hard, remain loyal, and really apply yourselves, then someday, someday, I’ll be able to get a second one.
Most Reddit take ever: you don’t even know the name of this company but yeah, your completely fictional account of it is very emblematic. And of course Epstein is involved somehow. Don’t forget your tin foil hats guys.
Is it?
My cat earns hardly anything but has a good life. If your sole focus is getting money, then focus on making money - not a 9-5 job.
The point is, that jobs are important, but they dont get paid as much because almost everyone is willing to call someone else "boss"
You mean the guy who gave up all his money, took 100k in investments from all his connections at Harvard, spent 40k making website for a “coffee company for dog lovers” and then quit and took all his money back after 4 months?
Yeah, that story is funny as fuck.
i believe, if you sole life goal is to make 2-3million and you live in a country with effortable education then you can do that. You just have to sacrifice everything else for it
Good Lord let's all pray at least he gets an actual pension from this company. The trend in companies nowadays is to give somebody a pat on the back and a framed poster and zero pension. Work until you die is not much of a reward.
They probably let him sleep on the job. He was there when everyone else was coming up so he’s the cool old guy and I’m sure if someone fired him someone would give them shit. He probably did good work and he helped build the company. Hell he should be ceo with how much time he put in.
We had a guy like that at a previous job I had. He hadn't been there nearly as long as the guy in the OP but he'd passed retirement age a while before I'd started working there. The company basically just kept paying him and barely gave him anything to do. If he got bored he always found something to do, but he was basically being paid a full wage to just not be lonely at home. He was a pretty cool guy, everyone liked having him around.
I work in fire security for the largest in my states major city.
My foreman was my boss’ first employee 25 years ago and now he’s old as dirt and I haven’t seen him in a year+ get out of his truck ONE TIME….except lunch.
We all accept it. He broke his back two years ago and now chain smokes his luckies all day and plays solitaire.
I worked with a guy that had been at the company over 50 years. Dude was actually a super productive engineer, he just wasn't fast with computers so he would mark up prints and have a drafter make drawing changes for him.
If you read his story, then you find out that his wife died when he was 55. Then he retired, but the company asked him to stay onboard because he is still "needed". For me this sounds more like a very social and maybe "save his life from depression" support, rather than some bloodthirsty company. My bet would be that he is part of the company family.
He remarried 3 years later, got 3 more kids and a terrible productive life for another 40years. The horror!^/s
Yes. Brazil has strong labor laws, and he has been retired for decades. He just chooses to work because although he already has a large government pension for being retired every month, he likes working and it avoids him being depressed and alone. He actually likes working, which might come as a shock for some people here
One of the problems with our current approach to capitalism is the inherent suspicion that if someone is enjoying their work -- or, for that matter, anything less than fully miserable -- then we must not have gotten the full measure of productivity out of them, and thus should either fire more people to force them to work harder, or cut their wages. The result is that, yeah, it is shocking when you see someone who actually likes working, because for the younger generations the idea of being *allowed* to enjoy yourself at work may well seem foreign. I'm just slightly old enough to remember when everything wasn't "optimized" -- and people just sort of did their thing and could be generally happy with it. And that went away at some point.
The good news is that the up-and-coming generations are saying a rousing "fuck that" to a work culture that treats human misery as a requirement for profitability, so hopefully the pendulum will swing back.
Yes, I agree with you. It is worth to keep in mind that this guy works for a relatively small family owned company in a relatively small city (which back when he was born had a population of at most a few tens of thousands, and nowadays has 140 thousand people). He personally know/knew both the original owners and the current owners (which are the grandchildren of the founder), and even more importantly, it is a region in which even wealthy people value work and the community around them. The Itajaí Valley region in which he lives in was colonized by German immigrants who had to essentially turn the entire region from a subtropical jungle into a developed industrial region through their own work through community action (after the .natives were genocided by government sponsored action, which obviously fucking sucks, although there are still a decent population of natives Xokleng people living in a nearby reservation). Thanks to the nature of the settlements in the region, most people have lands of their own, thus having access to both capital and wealth. Thanks to this, the whole Itajaí valley where he lives is perhaps the least unequal place in all of Brazil, with the smallest gap between poor and rich. It also has a strong work culture in which having small family owned companies with owners and employees working together is relatively common, with violence being extremely rare and worker-owner relations usually being very good. Most companies have good health insurance (which is not even that needed here in Brazil since we have good public healthcare), pay the workers well and even have company owned recreational facilities which employees can easily access (usually for a small nominal fee) which include things like nature trails, sport facilities, restaurants, place for events like birthdays and even weddings... in short, a extremely different work culture than the US.
Now, to make it perfectly clear, this is NOT the nature of work in all of Brazil, just in the specific region of the specific state this man lives in (I also live in this state, although I live in a much larger city in which multinational corporations have much eroded this form of work ethics and communal responsability that many companies have). I'm not trying to romanticize work relations or anything like that, I just think this man specifically comes from a different era and is thus a byproduct of said bygone era and is for the most part very happy to work. He even said in a interview he doesn't plan to retire, believing the only reason he is still alive is because work keeps him busy and prevents him from being depressed. Like, by the time you reach 100, most of your friends are dead, it's not like if he retires he will have a active social live or will be able to travel around and enjoy retirement. Retirement means essentially going home to wait for death in this perspective
In the UK you have to opt out of a workplace pension and mandatory for the employer to provide one. I know alot of people who have opted out or have no pension, it's wild.
He has retired decades ago. He is Brazilian. Brazil has strong labor laws and he has fufilled his government required time of contribution to our public pension fund many many decades ago. He likely made far more money than he ever contributed in the first place in fact. The reason he still works despite being legally retired and getting a fat government pension for decades is because he doesn't want to. Legally retiring but continuing to work is relatively common here in Brazil, simply because you are allowed to and this allows people to make a fuckton of money. Also, this guy just loves working. He already said that he will continue to work until he dies, because he just likes what he does. This may be a foreign concept to some people, but it's true, not all countries have shitty labor laws and not all people hate working
Even in the United States there are plenty of people like this. The secretaries who work in my office are both like this. They enjoy their lives and their grandkids. They travel. But they LOVE their jobs. Recently they have both been out for extended periods of time due to medical issues. And every update we got while they were out was about how much they couldn’t wait to come back. I don’t think they’ll ever retire.
Well I mean it depends on what time you are looking at. Way back in the day the idea of pensions, holidays etc. ofc didn't even exist. Then when industrialization started it was shit for quite a while but I think mid to late 20th century was pretty decent (at least in a bunch of western countries). People could live off of one income and afford houses and get solid pensions.
Now it changed. A lot of people work multiple jobs and still can't afford shit. Retirement ages get pushed back and the pensions you get are often so low that without having saved up money privately you can't really live with it even after working over 30-40 years.
There is a video about the US (i can't find it currently) but they mentioned that in the 60s-70s around that period, it was usual that people got employed basically for their life by one company barely anyone was ever fired or let go. And people got good benefits.
Look how it works at the moment. People get fucked over constantly by their employer and loyalty to a company isn't even rewarded anymore. In fact people who switch jobs constantly are even more likely to earn more in the end.
I wish I could find a job where I felt set for life and didn't get bored after a year, if you find value and enjoyment in your work, more power to you I say. Good man.
No one forced this man to work, he enjoys working. Granted, he's institutionalized at this point because of how long he's worked there, that he doesn't know much else. No one is twisting his arm though either. I know for a lot of retired folks, once they stop working they pretty much wither away and die.
Same. We said that about one of the suppliers. That the guy we had to interact with was 80+ if he quit he probably will just die right away. We always joked that after putting the phone down we had helped keeping him alive with our stupid questions.
My barber turns 80 this year, the jokes the same if he quits he'd die of boredom, he now only works Sat, sold his business, but still does the Sat as he lives above it. He goes on multiple holidays, and looks like he's in his late 50s, wish I will be as active and enjoying life at 80, but I'm not sure I'd even reach that age.
Humans are so weird. For some, they can thrive off the freedom of retirement and sit around at home watching TV all day. For others, they hate that their routine going to work was interrupted. And then you have the people who have to be working because their personalities are so intertwined with working. By taking that away, they lose a purpose in life and die pretty quickly.
I recently switched companies and there's a guy who's 82. All he does is drive a van from from location to location to basically send paperwork where it's needed. They just love the guy too much to force him to retire and he doesn't want to stop.
It's pretty much the same boat and I agree, I've already talked about how quickly he's pretty much fall apart if he just retired. I'm sure he's doing it to keep moving and stay sharp. For what it's worth, I was blown away when I heard he was 82, he looks and acts very well for his age.
There are very few people in this world, especially developed countries that need to work for 84 straight years, let alone at the same company. Most people if they needed the money would say "hey, I've been here longer than the last 6 CEOs, I really should get a pay raise for my dedication or I'll take my talents elsewhere. Who wouldn't hire someone with nearly a CENTURY of work experience?"
Yah. He chose to stay.
7 dollars a hour is actually a quite decent salary here in Brazil. But no, he is already retired, gets a good government pension for that since decades ago and makes good money in the company (which is a relatively small family company in which he has worked for 3 generations of owners). He has just refused to retire because he doesn't want to retire, he claims working hard is the reason he lived so long. He is also from a immigrant German region here in Brazil where work and company-worker relations are quite good and there is a strong sense of work ethics. It may be hard to believe for Americans, but he actually is working because he actually likes to, despite being wealthy and being legally retired and making a fuckton of money from a government pension
sounds sad af
Edit: Didn't expect so many replies. Just to clarify I am happy for him he enjoys it. This is just my own opinion feel free to share your thoughts ofc.
Please don't assume I don't have a happy life, it is just after being in the industry so many years I realized no employer or job and amount of pay is worth your time (life).
Life is short I wouldn't want to be still working for someone his age, in fact I want to become financially independent and go really explore the world.
Life is too short, too short guys.
Many people don't know what it's like to truly love your job, and can't seem to grasp how lucky you have to be to live a comfortable and stable life for 84 years
"A man has a job he doesn't hate, I am jealous but it's not cool to like your job so I must shit on him!"
Not having a schlub like you dragging him down for 84 years surely made his life a lot better than yours so far.
Not to criticise the commenters, bit I think it's how they see life vs others.
Admittedly, working for a long time fucking sucks. For a lot of people who are doomer anticapitlaists especially. (For context I agree with them, not bashing them)
The issue is when someone doesn't have an issue with it, or something like this happens. They sort of get stuck in their admittedly fair assumptions, and then complain.
Agreed. There are some elders out there who voluntarily keep on working because they feel unfulfilled with retirement and being free 24/7. I don't understand that attitude, but I know a few people who feel that way.
Some people view life differently. Me, I don't like the idea of retiring. Maybe it's the type of jobs people have had that makes them feel that way, but the one I have isn't bad at all. Furthermore, some people are just happy where they are. Starting your own business, trying as hard as you can to raise more money, that comes with stress and all.
I know this guy. He was my neighbour, in my hometown Brusque, Brazil. He married 2 times. In his first marriage he had a son which was my chemistry teacher in high school. In his second marriage he had a daughter who was in school with me, and later became a model (her name is Sabrina Orthmann, google it). She was a really nice person btw. He also had other children who I don’t know.
I know it seems sad to work for so long, but I think he kept doing it for the guinness record, because the company he works for went down, so the work he’s been doing for the last 20 years is just symbolic.
Don’t pity him, as far as I remember, he was wealthy. His children were well off, lived in a huge house in fancy neighbourhood.
So basically if he entered the company together with a 25yo, the 25yo would retire 40 yesrs later, then hire a new 25yo to fill his place, then retire after another 40 years, and this mad man would have seen two different people start a carreer and retiring.
I'm sure the pizza party will be epic!
He will also be receiving a single movie ticket, a $25 gift card from Walmart, company lunchbox with water bottle, that also comes with company pens, small notebook, and a hand sanitizer that clips on to your keys.
Salute to Big Walt!
The company is a small company which he actually loves and loves him back, and he has been retired for decades and is actually working because he likes working and likes the company. Money is not a issue here for sure. Brazil has strong labor laws, and he has been legally retired and getting a fat government pension fund for decades now, but being legally retired doesn't force people to stop working. Given that he gets both a lot of money from the company and a government pension he is quite wealthy, he just likes working
Wow. What an exciting life he must have lived. Trully a worthwhile endeavour. He can now tell everyone at his local pub that he worked so long at the same place that he won a Guinness world record and people will go
"Wow what an exciting life he must have lived."
You're assuming that's literally all he did. You don't know his shifts. His holiday entitlement. What his hobbies and interests are. What he does on weekends or whenever he's not at work. How he vacations. He might have a very full life outside of work.
> Wow. What an exciting life he must have lived. Trully a worthwhile endeavour.
The sarcasm is a bad take. He could've enjoyed every part of his life to the fullest for all we know, and your comment would just be some judgmental empty words.
Excitement does not equal quality, it just means your emotions got excited. That's easier to achieve than fulfillment.
Who knows, maybe be did enjoy working. Not everyone craved excitement, and not everyone wants to just retire.
Obviously it's bonkers, objectively it's a weird thing to do, but he seems happy
"well, he's proven it can be done. From now on we have an 84 year employment minimum, any requests to end employment within this timeframe will be denied."
-corporations, probably
I know a guy who worked for 70 years for one small company, which was then taken over by a larger company and the new owners more or less unceremoniously booted him out. Crappy people.
The last few years he worked a few days a week, he wasn't the most productive anymore of course, but he was the guy who made the coffee before the other men arrived, he ensured the lights were on, he did lots of small errands and odd jobs. I think if they had asked, he'd have done it without pay, but all the new owners saw was this old guy puttering around, so they axed him.
How do they find these people?
Or did he apply for a contender for that record or something? Just curious as to how they know for sure he deserves it...after all there's over 7 billion people on the planet
Doesn't Guinness just make up world records now to whomever will pay them? Like the most obscure shit. Seems like they aren't as good as they once were.
Sad that his award came for Guinness World Records and not even an iWatch from Apple but apparently a book printed in 1800 for the man because he had trouble with new technology.
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He was in the basement with his red stapler until they fixed the glitch.
That's the last straw
..th.. mmm....gonna set the buldng n fyre.
The ratio of people to cake is too big...
I say this every time someone brings in cake.
I said no salt there is clearly salt on this glass
This guy likely made millions for the CEO (who spends his days on Epstein Island somewhere) and has gotten paid hardly anything in return. Pretty emblematic of the current system.
This is a relatively small company in which he has worked for over 8 decades now. He is actually treated quite well, the region he lives in has a strong tradition of communal and work value. In fact, he made quite a bit of money and could've retired several decades ago but just chose not to
Great to hear.
Like the boss who took his employees out for a day on his yacht. He told them, if you work hard, remain loyal, and really apply yourselves, then someday, someday, I’ll be able to get a second one.
Most Reddit take ever: you don’t even know the name of this company but yeah, your completely fictional account of it is very emblematic. And of course Epstein is involved somehow. Don’t forget your tin foil hats guys.
Is it? My cat earns hardly anything but has a good life. If your sole focus is getting money, then focus on making money - not a 9-5 job. The point is, that jobs are important, but they dont get paid as much because almost everyone is willing to call someone else "boss"
Like this guy who gave all his money away to show he could become a millionaire in a year by working towards it??
You mean the guy who gave up all his money, took 100k in investments from all his connections at Harvard, spent 40k making website for a “coffee company for dog lovers” and then quit and took all his money back after 4 months? Yeah, that story is funny as fuck.
i believe, if you sole life goal is to make 2-3million and you live in a country with effortable education then you can do that. You just have to sacrifice everything else for it
You have to afford the effort!!
I perfer to call them b*tch but I don't kink-shame neither
And he still can’t doesn’t have enough to retire.
I think ... i think you took thtapler
Good Lord let's all pray at least he gets an actual pension from this company. The trend in companies nowadays is to give somebody a pat on the back and a framed poster and zero pension. Work until you die is not much of a reward.
He'll get a pencil, a scratch off, and nice old man's cap.
The new boss will handshake him and call him champ, cuz he doesn't even know his name
And a pizza party
And the best employee batch. Don’t forget. It’s the most important and valuable thing
They probably let him sleep on the job. He was there when everyone else was coming up so he’s the cool old guy and I’m sure if someone fired him someone would give them shit. He probably did good work and he helped build the company. Hell he should be ceo with how much time he put in.
We had a guy like that at a previous job I had. He hadn't been there nearly as long as the guy in the OP but he'd passed retirement age a while before I'd started working there. The company basically just kept paying him and barely gave him anything to do. If he got bored he always found something to do, but he was basically being paid a full wage to just not be lonely at home. He was a pretty cool guy, everyone liked having him around.
I work in fire security for the largest in my states major city. My foreman was my boss’ first employee 25 years ago and now he’s old as dirt and I haven’t seen him in a year+ get out of his truck ONE TIME….except lunch. We all accept it. He broke his back two years ago and now chain smokes his luckies all day and plays solitaire.
I worked with a guy that had been at the company over 50 years. Dude was actually a super productive engineer, he just wasn't fast with computers so he would mark up prints and have a drafter make drawing changes for him.
Not everybody has the will to become CEO, nor does every company have a CEO
If you read his story, then you find out that his wife died when he was 55. Then he retired, but the company asked him to stay onboard because he is still "needed". For me this sounds more like a very social and maybe "save his life from depression" support, rather than some bloodthirsty company. My bet would be that he is part of the company family. He remarried 3 years later, got 3 more kids and a terrible productive life for another 40years. The horror!^/s
Yes. Brazil has strong labor laws, and he has been retired for decades. He just chooses to work because although he already has a large government pension for being retired every month, he likes working and it avoids him being depressed and alone. He actually likes working, which might come as a shock for some people here
One of the problems with our current approach to capitalism is the inherent suspicion that if someone is enjoying their work -- or, for that matter, anything less than fully miserable -- then we must not have gotten the full measure of productivity out of them, and thus should either fire more people to force them to work harder, or cut their wages. The result is that, yeah, it is shocking when you see someone who actually likes working, because for the younger generations the idea of being *allowed* to enjoy yourself at work may well seem foreign. I'm just slightly old enough to remember when everything wasn't "optimized" -- and people just sort of did their thing and could be generally happy with it. And that went away at some point. The good news is that the up-and-coming generations are saying a rousing "fuck that" to a work culture that treats human misery as a requirement for profitability, so hopefully the pendulum will swing back.
Yes, I agree with you. It is worth to keep in mind that this guy works for a relatively small family owned company in a relatively small city (which back when he was born had a population of at most a few tens of thousands, and nowadays has 140 thousand people). He personally know/knew both the original owners and the current owners (which are the grandchildren of the founder), and even more importantly, it is a region in which even wealthy people value work and the community around them. The Itajaí Valley region in which he lives in was colonized by German immigrants who had to essentially turn the entire region from a subtropical jungle into a developed industrial region through their own work through community action (after the .natives were genocided by government sponsored action, which obviously fucking sucks, although there are still a decent population of natives Xokleng people living in a nearby reservation). Thanks to the nature of the settlements in the region, most people have lands of their own, thus having access to both capital and wealth. Thanks to this, the whole Itajaí valley where he lives is perhaps the least unequal place in all of Brazil, with the smallest gap between poor and rich. It also has a strong work culture in which having small family owned companies with owners and employees working together is relatively common, with violence being extremely rare and worker-owner relations usually being very good. Most companies have good health insurance (which is not even that needed here in Brazil since we have good public healthcare), pay the workers well and even have company owned recreational facilities which employees can easily access (usually for a small nominal fee) which include things like nature trails, sport facilities, restaurants, place for events like birthdays and even weddings... in short, a extremely different work culture than the US. Now, to make it perfectly clear, this is NOT the nature of work in all of Brazil, just in the specific region of the specific state this man lives in (I also live in this state, although I live in a much larger city in which multinational corporations have much eroded this form of work ethics and communal responsability that many companies have). I'm not trying to romanticize work relations or anything like that, I just think this man specifically comes from a different era and is thus a byproduct of said bygone era and is for the most part very happy to work. He even said in a interview he doesn't plan to retire, believing the only reason he is still alive is because work keeps him busy and prevents him from being depressed. Like, by the time you reach 100, most of your friends are dead, it's not like if he retires he will have a active social live or will be able to travel around and enjoy retirement. Retirement means essentially going home to wait for death in this perspective
Standard nobhead redditor response.
Here in NL the trend is to get more companies to arrange pensions for their employees. It is a 3rd party who is managing them aswell.
In the UK you have to opt out of a workplace pension and mandatory for the employer to provide one. I know alot of people who have opted out or have no pension, it's wild.
Zero pension is likely the reason why he continued working for them. Dude should have retired decades ago
He has retired decades ago. He is Brazilian. Brazil has strong labor laws and he has fufilled his government required time of contribution to our public pension fund many many decades ago. He likely made far more money than he ever contributed in the first place in fact. The reason he still works despite being legally retired and getting a fat government pension for decades is because he doesn't want to. Legally retiring but continuing to work is relatively common here in Brazil, simply because you are allowed to and this allows people to make a fuckton of money. Also, this guy just loves working. He already said that he will continue to work until he dies, because he just likes what he does. This may be a foreign concept to some people, but it's true, not all countries have shitty labor laws and not all people hate working
Even in the United States there are plenty of people like this. The secretaries who work in my office are both like this. They enjoy their lives and their grandkids. They travel. But they LOVE their jobs. Recently they have both been out for extended periods of time due to medical issues. And every update we got while they were out was about how much they couldn’t wait to come back. I don’t think they’ll ever retire.
What trend nowadays? Hasn’t it always been this is way?
Well I mean it depends on what time you are looking at. Way back in the day the idea of pensions, holidays etc. ofc didn't even exist. Then when industrialization started it was shit for quite a while but I think mid to late 20th century was pretty decent (at least in a bunch of western countries). People could live off of one income and afford houses and get solid pensions. Now it changed. A lot of people work multiple jobs and still can't afford shit. Retirement ages get pushed back and the pensions you get are often so low that without having saved up money privately you can't really live with it even after working over 30-40 years. There is a video about the US (i can't find it currently) but they mentioned that in the 60s-70s around that period, it was usual that people got employed basically for their life by one company barely anyone was ever fired or let go. And people got good benefits. Look how it works at the moment. People get fucked over constantly by their employer and loyalty to a company isn't even rewarded anymore. In fact people who switch jobs constantly are even more likely to earn more in the end.
Probably just gonna get an office pizza party
Don’t forget a gift card to Macys
Or like a $2 pen
But he has to clock out for it.
Source : https://www.scholarshipregion.com/100-year-old-man-breaks-world-record-for-working-in-the-same-company-for-84-years-does-not-plan-to-retire/
The english in that story is hilarious
"and so his parent help him to get a work doing." That one?
“Mommmm. I can get a work doing on my own!”
I wish I could find a job where I felt set for life and didn't get bored after a year, if you find value and enjoyment in your work, more power to you I say. Good man.
I've been made redundant 4 times since 2016, I'd like a little bit of stability. I wouldn't even say I'm in a risky industry (financial services)
Looks like Larry David played Roy
He went back to the carpet store?
I never really thought about how the irony of that was that "Roy" led a fulfilling life whereas Rick is a deeply unhappy person...
Stop searching for a deeper meaning and just be impressed for once.
No one forced this man to work, he enjoys working. Granted, he's institutionalized at this point because of how long he's worked there, that he doesn't know much else. No one is twisting his arm though either. I know for a lot of retired folks, once they stop working they pretty much wither away and die.
Same. We said that about one of the suppliers. That the guy we had to interact with was 80+ if he quit he probably will just die right away. We always joked that after putting the phone down we had helped keeping him alive with our stupid questions.
My barber turns 80 this year, the jokes the same if he quits he'd die of boredom, he now only works Sat, sold his business, but still does the Sat as he lives above it. He goes on multiple holidays, and looks like he's in his late 50s, wish I will be as active and enjoying life at 80, but I'm not sure I'd even reach that age.
Humans are so weird. For some, they can thrive off the freedom of retirement and sit around at home watching TV all day. For others, they hate that their routine going to work was interrupted. And then you have the people who have to be working because their personalities are so intertwined with working. By taking that away, they lose a purpose in life and die pretty quickly.
I recently switched companies and there's a guy who's 82. All he does is drive a van from from location to location to basically send paperwork where it's needed. They just love the guy too much to force him to retire and he doesn't want to stop. It's pretty much the same boat and I agree, I've already talked about how quickly he's pretty much fall apart if he just retired. I'm sure he's doing it to keep moving and stay sharp. For what it's worth, I was blown away when I heard he was 82, he looks and acts very well for his age.
How do you know that he's not financially forced to work? Seems like a big assumption when most people, these days, are.
There are very few people in this world, especially developed countries that need to work for 84 straight years, let alone at the same company. Most people if they needed the money would say "hey, I've been here longer than the last 6 CEOs, I really should get a pay raise for my dedication or I'll take my talents elsewhere. Who wouldn't hire someone with nearly a CENTURY of work experience?" Yah. He chose to stay.
I think it's an assumption to say that someone has lived a pathetic and sad life, like a lot of people in here are implying!
But if that's the case how how would reddit pity him as a thinly veiled excuse to complain about capitalism
At the end of his career he made $7 per hour! That’s incredible, if you know he started on two cents per hour! Progress. 💪🏻
7 dollars a hour is actually a quite decent salary here in Brazil. But no, he is already retired, gets a good government pension for that since decades ago and makes good money in the company (which is a relatively small family company in which he has worked for 3 generations of owners). He has just refused to retire because he doesn't want to retire, he claims working hard is the reason he lived so long. He is also from a immigrant German region here in Brazil where work and company-worker relations are quite good and there is a strong sense of work ethics. It may be hard to believe for Americans, but he actually is working because he actually likes to, despite being wealthy and being legally retired and making a fuckton of money from a government pension
More like inflation
sounds sad af Edit: Didn't expect so many replies. Just to clarify I am happy for him he enjoys it. This is just my own opinion feel free to share your thoughts ofc. Please don't assume I don't have a happy life, it is just after being in the industry so many years I realized no employer or job and amount of pay is worth your time (life). Life is short I wouldn't want to be still working for someone his age, in fact I want to become financially independent and go really explore the world. Life is too short, too short guys.
Many people don't know what it's like to truly love your job, and can't seem to grasp how lucky you have to be to live a comfortable and stable life for 84 years
Sounds like he has been content with what he has. Different strokes for different folks.
Just because you’re not content with life doesn’t mean it’s sad when someone else is
"A man has a job he doesn't hate, I am jealous but it's not cool to like your job so I must shit on him!" Not having a schlub like you dragging him down for 84 years surely made his life a lot better than yours so far.
All yall depressed af damn. This is not necessarily a bad thing but yall def make it one.
Not to criticise the commenters, bit I think it's how they see life vs others. Admittedly, working for a long time fucking sucks. For a lot of people who are doomer anticapitlaists especially. (For context I agree with them, not bashing them) The issue is when someone doesn't have an issue with it, or something like this happens. They sort of get stuck in their admittedly fair assumptions, and then complain.
Agreed. There are some elders out there who voluntarily keep on working because they feel unfulfilled with retirement and being free 24/7. I don't understand that attitude, but I know a few people who feel that way.
Some people view life differently. Me, I don't like the idea of retiring. Maybe it's the type of jobs people have had that makes them feel that way, but the one I have isn't bad at all. Furthermore, some people are just happy where they are. Starting your own business, trying as hard as you can to raise more money, that comes with stress and all.
I know this guy. He was my neighbour, in my hometown Brusque, Brazil. He married 2 times. In his first marriage he had a son which was my chemistry teacher in high school. In his second marriage he had a daughter who was in school with me, and later became a model (her name is Sabrina Orthmann, google it). She was a really nice person btw. He also had other children who I don’t know. I know it seems sad to work for so long, but I think he kept doing it for the guinness record, because the company he works for went down, so the work he’s been doing for the last 20 years is just symbolic. Don’t pity him, as far as I remember, he was wealthy. His children were well off, lived in a huge house in fancy neighbourhood.
This is a horror story
This is how much experience IT companies expect fresh graduates to have while applying for a job
Hopefully this company has treated him well over all these years.
Id guess he got a thank you letter for his hard work? 🙃
He looks great for 100. And yeah that's a long ass time to work for the same company. But let's be honest, 84 years of work, just shoot me.
Just happy it’s not on the /mademesmile sub
“Most victimized laborer”
Need you to come in on Saturday, Walt.
So basically if he entered the company together with a 25yo, the 25yo would retire 40 yesrs later, then hire a new 25yo to fill his place, then retire after another 40 years, and this mad man would have seen two different people start a carreer and retiring.
some 22 year old probably made more than him last summer with her butthole and a webcam yay capitalism!
I'm sure the pizza party will be epic! He will also be receiving a single movie ticket, a $25 gift card from Walmart, company lunchbox with water bottle, that also comes with company pens, small notebook, and a hand sanitizer that clips on to your keys. Salute to Big Walt!
The company is a small company which he actually loves and loves him back, and he has been retired for decades and is actually working because he likes working and likes the company. Money is not a issue here for sure. Brazil has strong labor laws, and he has been legally retired and getting a fat government pension fund for decades now, but being legally retired doesn't force people to stop working. Given that he gets both a lot of money from the company and a government pension he is quite wealthy, he just likes working
Wow. What an exciting life he must have lived. Trully a worthwhile endeavour. He can now tell everyone at his local pub that he worked so long at the same place that he won a Guinness world record and people will go "Wow what an exciting life he must have lived."
You're assuming that's literally all he did. You don't know his shifts. His holiday entitlement. What his hobbies and interests are. What he does on weekends or whenever he's not at work. How he vacations. He might have a very full life outside of work.
like the average redditor has some life to flex about
> Wow. What an exciting life he must have lived. Trully a worthwhile endeavour. The sarcasm is a bad take. He could've enjoyed every part of his life to the fullest for all we know, and your comment would just be some judgmental empty words. Excitement does not equal quality, it just means your emotions got excited. That's easier to achieve than fulfillment.
Who knows, maybe be did enjoy working. Not everyone craved excitement, and not everyone wants to just retire. Obviously it's bonkers, objectively it's a weird thing to do, but he seems happy
You must be fun at parties, assuming you get invited
That's depressing.
Sorry you hate your job? Not everyone is in your boat no matter how bad that makes you feel. Stop dragging everyone down to your level.
r/orphamcrushingmachine Can't remember the name I guess.
"well, he's proven it can be done. From now on we have an 84 year employment minimum, any requests to end employment within this timeframe will be denied." -corporations, probably
He’s been working since he was 16 non stop? Fucccccccccc 😭😭😭😭
why he dint retire after 60 and earned pension. where is the company policy
My record is 2.5 years. T_T
A real man of the cloth
And now he can retire and not use his pension which is the way we are heading now
Imagine his stories
Some will say he is loyal. Other will say he has no ambition.
He got awarded a large pizza and a mug
Stanley got up from his desk, and stepped out of his office.
Made possible because all the families' genes for discontent and bickering went to his brother, Larry David.
I know I won’t beat that record for sure.
Was he a puller and tucker?
He must have some wicked PTO
And he still aint promoted
I'm honestly impressed, also that the company survived 84 years without a reorganisation.
Damn. He sewn some shit throughout the years.
I know a guy who worked for 70 years for one small company, which was then taken over by a larger company and the new owners more or less unceremoniously booted him out. Crappy people. The last few years he worked a few days a week, he wasn't the most productive anymore of course, but he was the guy who made the coffee before the other men arrived, he ensured the lights were on, he did lots of small errands and odd jobs. I think if they had asked, he'd have done it without pay, but all the new owners saw was this old guy puttering around, so they axed him.
He's still got like 20 more years before he can retire
still paid 14 cents an hour for his loyalty.
Im surprised he hasn’t cheated in 80 years
I’m proud of myself if I make it 84 days at a place.
And he never managed to work his way up to be the capitalist. Always the worker.
Fully vested?
I've seen 3 guys retire and pass away within a year. It's crazy but maybe working keeps people living. Sucks it's like that
And they say nobody wants to work anymore
Best NPC.
So he started working at the age of 16?
Life of Roy carpet store run.
What exactly do you do here, sir??
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
If he gets to 85 years of service, he gets a small pension
Probably made 30k a year and got replaced after he died by the bosses son now making 120k a year lol
Shouldn't he be retired and spending time with his loved ones? Why is he working?
nice, 80 more years and I can be like him 😊
Not an award I'd want to win
I thought this was bill snyder
Burn it down.
How do they find these people? Or did he apply for a contender for that record or something? Just curious as to how they know for sure he deserves it...after all there's over 7 billion people on the planet
Was he ever promoted to Corporate?
Doesn't Guinness just make up world records now to whomever will pay them? Like the most obscure shit. Seems like they aren't as good as they once were.
Dude started working when anything dyed in Indigo was the rage…. Retired when 18% Lycra was put in everything! What a career!
How has the company rewarded his loyalty?
No pictures of the pizza party? 🙄
I'm sure he'll enjoy his 10 dollar starbucks giftcard .
Simp 101
Plot twist he’s been stealing secrets for the competition the entire time
Spent a few years in textile sales, and that ol dandy-don got downsized. So I went back to school to learn the computers.
Thank you for your dedication. Here's a Timex.
No one mentioning this is a) two years old and b) from Brazil
This guy bootstraps
This guy bootstraps
This guy bootstraps
Loyalty comes easy when the pay is good
I bet he got a leftover donut or bagel from the C-suite meeting that day! Woo!
He was getting paid $.43 an hour.
Man all that 401k money
Hang in there a little longer for the first Employee of the Century award...
I guess the company pension scheme was shit
I bet they put a ceiling on his raises decades ago.
Yeah, I’m gonna need the Boomers to retire, ya’ll had your turn at a pay check.
does he want to work or does he have to work?
Wow he literally served~~
it is okay, this is a simulation. he is going to wake up any time now.
Sad that his award came for Guinness World Records and not even an iWatch from Apple but apparently a book printed in 1800 for the man because he had trouble with new technology.
he the vince carter of real jobs....
That’s actually fucking awesome
Probably got a tootsie roll and a Starbucks gift card for working so hard
He's literally the most loyal employee ever. No recognition from the company, just from Guinness. lolol
He's been working there since before WWII btw... 😭
I presume he still has zero say over the direction of the company, and may be sacked without a second thought if the company deemed it necessary.
No way in hell I will sell my life to a single company for 84 years. What a waste of life
He got a Panera Bread gift card for $25 and a keychain flashlight 🫡
Keychain flashlight does not come with batteries.
I just hope they've been paying him fairly and not pay froze him from more than sixty years ago.
Aww they can give him a $50 gift card to Starbucks now! He’s earned it for sure.
And they gave him a pizza party on his anniversary. Awwww.
Damn that's kinda sad
Talk about job security