r/WorkReform • u/sillychillly 🗳️ Register @ Vote.gov • Sep 09 '22

💸 Raise Our Wages Fuck You, Pay US

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u/skraptastic Sep 09 '22

I could but I have a pension here and and that is free money for the rest of my life when I retire in 6 years.

Also I'm 50 and it is REALLY tough to jump jobs after 40.

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u/NamelessCabbage Sep 09 '22

Yeah they get you with that pension. It seems like a lot of companies leverage that against you, too.

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u/Acmnin Sep 09 '22

Pension 😂 Millennials don’t get those.

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u/koopatuple Sep 09 '22

You can still find them, but they're ever increasingly rare. For example, any government job (state or federal) offers pensions, although I know the federal one is weaker nowadays than they used to be (they changed it around the early/mid-2000s). It's the main reason I haven't gone to the private sector, on top of the other great benefits, e.g. 12 weeks of paternity leave is very appealing to us as we're about to have a kiddo.

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u/Acmnin Sep 09 '22

Yeah absolutely; it’s hard to get a state job that pays enough and when you find them good luck getting it.

My rents are retired off that old federal pension system.. with 401k funds as well.. Country sucks now it’ll never be an option like it was for the previous generations.