One of the guys I worked with several years back was planning to retire after the first of the year. He filled out the paperwork a full year in advance so he would have access to his pension immediately upon retiring. Three weeks before his retirement date, he went to the doctor for a bad cough and was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. He tried to cancel his retirement, but was told he could not because the paperwork had already been processed. If he had remained an employee, he would have been covered by employer paid life insurance. I thought that was a really cold way to treat a long time employee who had been with the company for at least twenty years or more.
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