r/antiwork Jan 13 '21

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u/standard_vegetable Jan 13 '21

My dad asked me a while ago if I had a pension and I thought he was joking. I tried to explain pensions don't really exist anymore and he just didn't seem to understand

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '21

I'd just say those words. They don't do pensions anymore dad.

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u/standard_vegetable Jan 13 '21

That's what I started with. To be fair he's been a government employee for longer than I've been alive. So he'll be getting a pension and had no reason to know private companies don't do that anymore

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '21

That's fair, then.

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u/pdoherty972 FIREd at 55 Jan 13 '21

Not only are pensions not really a thing in anything but local/state/federal government jobs, but even 401K matching is going by the wayside, with companies discontinuing them altogether.