{"id":1281,"date":"2007-03-21T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2024-06-11T09:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:22:15","slug":"we-are-outta-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"We Are Outta Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>How can you tell that you&#8217;re getting old?  You go to an antique auction, and three people bid on you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Today is our last day of work! We decided to pull the plug!\u00a0 It was mostly because the company had just got to be an unhappy place to work.\u00a0 The lack of leadership and continuing waste wawereot what we had signed up for 40 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed work until the last two years a,nd it started to take a toll on our lives.\u00a0 Working 60+ hours a week only to see the management abdicate their responsibility, turn the activities over to the crazies, and conform to every idiotic idea that floated down from the company on high was too much!<a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired_button.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7226\" title=\"retired_button\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired_button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired_button.jpg 400w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired_button-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired_button-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Retiring was the best thing we ever did.\u00a0 We will miss our friends but we want to go from workaholics to &#8220;funaholics&#8221;\u00a0 and we did that in a matter of minutes.\u00a0 Guess being married to your best friend makes that possible!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1543\" title=\"retired\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired.jpg\" alt=\"retired\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired.jpg 525w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/retired-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/demotivators_retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7229\" title=\"demotivators_retirement\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/demotivators_retirement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/demotivators_retirement.jpg 450w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/demotivators_retirement-150x126.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2007\/03\/demotivators_retirement-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>4:42 PM in the afternoon&#8230; and we&#8217;re outta here! We figured we&#8217;d skip the big fancy ceremony \u2013 even though a lot of folks were pushing for it. We just want to casually slide into the annals of aerospace history and live out our lives in peace and quiet. Maybe with a little less gravity, if we&#8217;re lucky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you tell that you&#8217;re getting old? You go to an antique auction, and three people bid on you! Today is our last day of work! 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