Do you miss anything from your work days?

Use of Office and Acrobat for G-jobs. I did not mind paying $99 for Office after I retired, but almost choked when I had to pay $300 for Adobe Acrobat.
It was still well worth it if for nothing else but the typewriter function to fill out forms.
 
Our pens at work all said "Property of the U.S. Government" or something like that, on the side. Instead of taking them, I decided I was a big spender who could afford my own. I spent a couple of bucks or some measly amount on a package of Bic pens not long before I retired. I think I may still have some. I pretend they are work pens and cost me nothing.

My work had provided a copy of MS Office for me to install on my home computer, as a perk, but it was only operable as long as I worked there. I knew I'd miss it so I was a little stressed out about that! I uninstalled it, and then I discovered that Open Office works just fine for my purposes. :)
 
My last seven years were telecommuting from home. It was nice at first because occasional travel broke up the monotony. Then they cut travel and working everyday from home got old. My boss retired. A year later I retired. Haven’t missed a thing except talking with a few of the people. We still keep in touch by text and they have all moved on to other companies or retired. So I don’t miss a thing. It’s been eight years since I gave notice. March 29 that year was my last day of work. Life is good.
 
Oh, absolutely. My company had this terrific caterer that had the most fantastic sandwiches delivered for meetings. I always made sure to visit the meeting rooms and sample the wares. Other than that, no, nothing.
 
I used to miss the pay. But for 8 years now, I have survived well on my stash, I no longer need that pay to feel secure.

I still miss the work. There was plenty of interesting work, if they just left me alone to do it, instead of making me feel like Dilbert.

Now, I have to think of technical things to do at home, and it costs me money instead of paying me.
 
Yeah, vacation. If you miss the pay, you retired too soon.
 
I just retired, and after more than three decades in the same workplace (although my actual work had changed several times during my tenure there) I was and am and probably always will be sick unto death of the whole enterprise. In short, while I had the usual ups and downs of a long career (and successful one), I am 100% thrilled to be able to move on, do different things, meet new people, spend my time pursuing what best meets my goals and values, etc. I can say that the last 3-5 years I was jBORED at work, bored with the whole place that I knew so well and was so, so, so predictable. So, my answer to this thread is I miss nothing!
 
Souschef said:
The other was a trip to Montreal for a meeting with a customer. I had a redeye, but the General Manager was upset because he thought he would have to pay for a hotel room.
I called my boss to tell him how upset I was because I was doing this on my own time. However, on the return trip, I ordered an expensive lobster lunch in the airport, and since the receipt was in French, they did not bat an eye.
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Very early in DW's company's history there was a policy that you had to travel on your own time.

As much of the work was in Europe at the time, 'your own time' for flying home was only on weekends as the only flights to the US were during the day.

Having invented passive aggression, the folks would always seem to finish up their work around noon on Sunday and ... "I had to hang out in Paris/Rome/London/Amsterdam and wait until Saturday so I could fly on my on time...lots of nice museums and restaurants in those places!".
 
I miss nothing from my work days from a successful career which I enjoyed.
However, this new phase of life called Retirement suits me 100% and I have no communication with any former colleagues and don't wish to follow any updates.
 
Koolau said:
I guess I do miss the travel. Don't tell DW, but just getting away for a while (so it was great to come back home) is something I miss. (Read the Men Are From Mars, etc. book.) I'm sure it's a guy thing. I recall spending two weeks away one time and I FINALLY got lonely. It was a wonderful feeling - especially since I knew I'd be going home soon. I guess you had to be there.



Otherwise, just a few of the coworkers. MAYBE, once in a while a "reason" to get up in the morning (Wait. Naaahhhh!) YMMV
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It’s not a guy thing. Women really like getting away too.
 
Koolau said:
My Megacorp required a certain type pen be used (BLACK, indelible ink) so they provided the pens. I can't say I intentionally stole the things, but I ended up with half a cigar box full of the things (mixed in with a few magnetic stirring bars) when I ER'd. I still have half a dozen Megacorp pens that work after 15 years. The ones I get from the bank are junk when I pocket them and they last 3 months. Megacorp pens ONLY quit when ALL the ink is gone. Quality IS measurable.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about the great pens. Thanks for the memories. :flowers:
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I ended up with pens as well. They’ll last at least a decade.
 
Travel is he only thing I miss - unlike many of my coworkers - I took advantage of it - added vacation days to the end of it - stayed over a weekend to get the “cheaper return flight” had my spouse fly over to meet me.
And the elevated airline and hotel status was nice.
 
No!

Well maybe, the crazy paychecks and the 6+ weeks vacation each year. Lunch wasn't to bad either.... After a decade, I still wouldn't consider going back....
 
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Ok besides lunch there's my old lunch buddies and I do remember a place. I used to travel to Rochester MN., there was a restaurant next to some RR tracks that had an awesome duck breast. I'd like to go back there.
 
LastOfTheBoomers said:
Travel is he only thing I miss - unlike many of my coworkers - I took advantage of it - added vacation days to the end of it - stayed over a weekend to get the “cheaper return flight” had my spouse fly over to meet me.
And the elevated airline and hotel status was nice.
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I did a lot of travel when I was with the big NYC law firm, and it was always the same - leave at the very last minute, go somewhere, attend court or take/defend a deposition, and then come back immediately, so I could work on my million other cases. Courtrooms and law firm conference rooms look the same everywhere, and the only thing I saw of most cities was the taxi ride to and from the airport. I don't miss that one bit.
 
When I worked mostly from home in 2001-2003, my home PC didn't have the same commonly used programs as my office PC. This was, mainly, Word and Excel. They gave me a copy of Office 2000 which included Word 2000 and Excel 2000. I had a much older version of Word on my PC and had no Excel on it.

I still have the Office 2000 CD which still works and I have (re)installed it onto my PC many times, whenever I bought a new PC or a new hard drive. The CD is 20 years old at this point, but both programs work just fine, even on Windows 10 machines.

They also gave me Lotus 2000 to put on my PC because I had some old Lotus spreadsheets I still used and couldn't convert to Excel. For my home use, I prefer Lotus because I find it somewhat easier to use although some spreadsheets are more suitable for Excel.
 
scrabbler1 said:
When I worked mostly from home in 2001-2003, my home PC didn't have the same commonly used programs as my office PC. This was, mainly, Word and Excel. They gave me a copy of Office 2000 which included Word 2000 and Excel 2000. I had a much older version of Word on my PC and had no Excel on it.

I still have the Office 2000 CD which still works and I have (re)installed it onto my PC many times, whenever I bought a new PC or a new hard drive. The CD is 20 years old at this point, but both programs work just fine, even on Windows 10 machines.

They also gave me Lotus 2000 to put on my PC because I had some old Lotus spreadsheets I still used and couldn't convert to Excel. For my home use, I prefer Lotus because I find it somewhat easier to use although some spreadsheets are more suitable for Excel.
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On PCs, you're right that many older programs will still work even on newer versions of Windows. However, I've noticed that when I upgraded the iOS on my iPad, previously purchased apps no longer work because the app maker didn't release a compatible update. I wonder whether Apple is doing something that breaks older apps to keep app makers releasing new versions (and perhaps paying to host those newer versions)?
 
I do miss the motivated students that I taught who were going into a medical profession. Teaching was a satisfying career for many decades.

Would I go back? I could but the environment and the attitude of more students today has changed so that the collaboration with those students would not be as enjoyable and in some cases maybe not as productive.


Cheers!
 
You all reminded me of something. At one point I worked for a quarky Engineer. Actually at several points, but this guy remains memorable. Just one of my favorite parts about him is that he couldnt and wouldnt type. Maybe with one finger. So he would open his email, print out the ones that were things to be done. And then walk that stack of emails out and hand them to the people he felt should do them. LOL. He hardcopied email and assignments. I loved it. When he needed like a narrative in email he would write it out longhand on a legal pad and I would type it, highlighting the sh*t I couldnt read so he could go back in and put what he meant in those holes. And forward to him- which was an improvement because at the beginning he insisted I sit at his desk to type them because how else could he send it to anyone? LOL. Great guy. HE called me last week and left me a voicemail that he was pretty sure he saw me on the news storming the capitol and wanted to check on me LMAO. Funny great guy. He was delightfully strange. I chewed a guy out and then he lunged across my desk and screamed at me, and I told my boss and that guy was banned from the building without his supervisor as an escort. And then my boss hung a sign over my desk (I mean like a real, framed signed) with one of the lines I used in my buttchewing and LIT IT WITH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. LOL
 
I was a professor and miss the intellectual stimulation the most. I also miss working with students and international travel to conferences.
 
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