ER, I’ve never had a position for which there was “downtime.” When the mainframe was “down,” it simply meant we had a lot more fancy footwork and phone calling to do until it came back up again.
Have you ever made 400 calls a day on a rotary phone with a pencil eraser??[/quote]
Nope. Admittedly, I’ve never had to make 400 calls a day on a rotary phone with a pencil eraser. I have however received over 700 emails in a 24 hour period with all of them expecting to have their email answered that same day. And not able to sleep until each and every one of them were answered. No ifs, ands or buts. And that’s while having meetings all day with employees, clients, vendors, etc.
I’m not even saying that you didn’t deserve your pension. I’ll go on record as saying that the majority of people out there that are receiving some pension probably deserve it through many decades of long, hard work.
Personally, I’d love a pension. And if I had one, you can be sure I’d be arguing why I deserved it. 🙂
