scrabbler1
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I got the standard clock set in something hard, shiny and heavy with my name engraved. It will go into the trash when we next move.
More importantly I got a $500 gift card to a store of my choice ( I chose Walmart ) and the advice to delay my retirement by 1 day in order to exceed my 25 year anniversary and qualify for a week's extra vacation, which was paid as an extra week on my final salary check![]()
This is ironic because I know 2 people (my dad, in 1994, and a coworker, in 2003) who changed their final day to be one day earlier because it would help them receive their first pension check earlier. In both cases, they were going to retire on the first day of a new quarter (July 1 for my dad, October 1 for the coworker) but rolled it back to the last day of the previous quarter so they could collect their first pension check right away instead of waiting 3 months (working a single day in a new quarter made them ineligible for collecting a pension in that quarter).
I recall at least one person writing about this one-day-difference here and my replying with my two stories.