97guns
Full time employment: Posting here.
It sounds as though you and I may have had a different sort of w*rk life. My former colleagues are individuals that I have known for decades and for whom I have the utmost respect. We had a great esprit de corps. All of them were genuinely happy for my being able to retire early though a couple admitted a bit of envy on their parts).
No long standing relationships here, in fact I was always beefing with most of them, they were all a bunch of slugs and did not agree with my work ethics, they felt I was making them look bad. that's one thing I really don't like about union jobs, the workers feel they are untouchable with the unions backing