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Now for the dark side: Some of y'all have already guessed it.

1) I'm unvaxxed, and wholly unrepentant and I reported officially to management that status less than a month ago.
2) I had my malignant left nut removed in August.
3) I was less than 6 months away from being fully vested in retirement.

You can form your own conclusions as you wish.

As to the rest of it, I did the grand and honorable thing 9 months ago to stomp my feet and write emails about my situation. My local server farm was woefully out of date. The hardware was purchased used in 2015. The VMWare hosts were going down just looking sideways at them and the UPS that held up the server room was beeping at me, telling me the battery was shot. I wanted a refresh, and they said no. I then lobbied for help in getting everything moved off to the cloud so I could be done with primary responsibility. I got that, and spent the next six months migrating everything to the corporate cloud.

I got the last server turned off 31 December, and unplugged the UPS on the way out the door. My main duties of keeping the site afloat was officially over. When I walked into this in 2016, I was shepherding a site with 20 servers, 300 users on 3 shifts, and running its own ERP system. I left with 3 dozen users, and everything in the cloud. I couldn't even find a purchaser to buy me network patch cables. The last one retired in August.

Thanks all for the good wishes. I just spent the last 30 minutes watching Youtubes on how to accurize a Brown Bess. I think I have enough DBC left for one more (BIG) bore.

Congrats. I’d give my left nut to be in your shoes.

You should send her a card or something, that was real decent of her to make that drive.

Congratulations on retiring again!!!

My job yesterday was to reload 100 rds of 270 ammo. The rifle has not been out of the safe for about 5 years, so it's time to give it some exercise. Today, I went through the entire safe giving everything an annual cleaning.

"Many people who get the ax will sabotage things as they go."

One fellow who departed the firm where I worked saw it coming. He froze about 20 pounds of potatoes and stuffed them in the backs of file cabinet drawers and beneath desks and in pockets of coats that were hanging in lockers. It took about three weeks for the smell to start and it was months before they found all of the spuds.

I was shown the pasture today. Thankfully it wasn't the glue truck.

At 1000, I was invited to a meeting in the boardroom. Much to my surprise, there was my boss, having driven down from Mansfield in a snowstorm. The head of HR was there, and we had my Boss' boss and the VP of HR on video conference.

They gave me a letter and my last paycheck and started to launch into a heartfelt and complicated dissertation

"OK," I said. "Let's get to the nub. No problem. I'll go turkey hunting."

I've been there 5 years. I was retired already when I took the gig, and just didn't like staying at home and writing novels. It was a nice gig, but I have always had a propensity for working myself out of a job. I finished up my big projects before Christmas. They were shutting down the plant starting last June. I thoroughly accepted getting aced. I'd been waiting for it since August. I was just happy I got past the 1st of the year; they have to pay me for 3 weeks of vacation on top of the severance package.

My boss was new to all this. She stuck with me while I cleaned out my desk and let me go around on the floor and wish folks goodbye. I haven't had so many women cry over me leaving, but that's how it goes. I made it home by Noon.

What now? If anyone needs a bit jockey, I'll talk to them. I've got 40 years in the profession. However, I've got 200 acres of prime deer and turkey land that I'm aching to get back to. I also have a new Brown Bess musket that needs to be broken in. I think this may be my last round-up. Tell the girls at the whore house I'll miss 'em. Somebody drop by the saloon and tip the bartender for me.

Many people who get the ax will sabotage things as they go. It's standard practice to have someone stay right on top of them until they're out the door. Someone who has access to a computer and isn't closely supervised can do a lot of damage in a few minutes. Someone in a shop can toss a couple bolts into a machine's gear box and cost them many thousands of $$. You can bet that she was under orders to stay on top of you.

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Hahaha. She was told to stick with him to make sure he didnt fughk something up.