To answer your question we make tires
Very labor intensive job.
I have only three years at this plant. My insurance is with my previous employer, whom I spent thirty three years with. I lost half my pension there because I was only fifty two when it closed. We lost four tenths of a percent of our pensions for every month under the age of sixty-two.
I was one of the last to leave because they ran the mixing department two years after the tire building stopped. I had little experience in that area but was one of the four supervisors they picked to stay. (Still have other supers ticked at me over that.) So I actually went thru two plant closures at the same place.
Yep, started when I was nineteen and worked there until I finished college. Graduated after eight part-time years during Jimmy Carter's time in office. High inflation, high unemployment, high interest rates. I would take my resume' someplace and they would laugh at me. 'Don't you know we have laid off half our workforce!!'. So I stayed where I was.
I have thought about this all morning and will tell the 'Boss' that when they start laying off I want to be the first. The younger guys and gals need to keep their jobs and it won't hurt me to go.
I can draw unemployment, get a severance package, retire for good!
This is probably the best thing that could happen to me. But it still breaks my heart to think of the younger people just starting out with families, or expecting their first child.
I think I am beginning to hate all politicians, especially the anti-business, socialist group we have running the country now.
