Nope…bragging about the 401k that you built up with a company match. Then suggesting that company match should be eliminated (when less than 10 years from retirememt) and telling the folks coming up behind you that they just lack the personal responsibility put back money for retirement and forgetting that YOU had your company matching 80% of your contribution for the duration of your employment.
A person working there for 25 years gets a company match of almost $400,000 during that time (if they max out their 401K). So a different guy coming up would be $400k behind bears. Any extra money comes from take home pay. Meaning they don’t live as well as he was allowed to live, and they don’t have a benovlent employer giving the a few hundred grand over the course of their employment.
Not guilt tripping anybody. I don’t begrudge Bears anything for what he has earned or where he is in life. I just find it amusing how he faults what has benefitted him. It would be like a waiter who works in a five-star restaurant and gets beaucoup tips complaining about tipping.
Bears prides himself on his savings discipline, but overlooks that he has had A shitload of help that he feels others should not have. He also bitches about unions, but that union pension he has will insure that his heirs have a nice little nest egg when he passes because he just won’t be using it much. I say that because even with my meager pension and social security, I won’t have to touch my savings until I am forced to. I’m gonna guess that he will find himself in a similar situation.
True…but if a comnpany doesn’t offer it, the person coming up behind him lacks personal responsibility if he accepts a job at a place that has decided not to match (maybe even eliminated the match, which happened under the best president we’ve ever had) because he SHOULD have found an employer who offered it. At the same time, he abhors unions, yet lives somewhere where he is required to belong to a union and suffer under all the benefits that gets him. He has told me NUMEROUS times that if I don’t like Kansas and want to work for a union to move…but that advice doesn’t apply to him because of “family”. He holds people to standards that even he doesn’t have.
Edited to add.,…read his reply two below this one.
Yep, that’s what millions of people have done. Are you at the first job you ever worked? I think you’ve mentioned your daughter worked at Starbucks years ago, why didn’t she stay there? My guess is she got an education in order to get a better paying job doing something she enjoyed doing.
More natural evolution. No, I didn’t work for my fist job forever. but I worked at my last job for 20 years. How long have you worked at your current job, or is this the first job you ever had?
