Re: Thursday Night Chow? 2/13/2025

On 2/14/2025 7:27 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:02:16 +0000, BryanGSimmons wrote:

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Jill is almost exactly the same age as me.  Her condo is paid off.
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When did Jill move into a condo???

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I've never lived in a condo.

64 is a good age to retire.
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Only if she wants to give up 30% of Social Security.

What I would prefer is not to have to worry about it.  I enjoy my job and the hours are fairly flexible.  I generally work Monday-Thursday. Today is a Federal holiday so the office is closed.  I'll probably be working this coming Friday.
I would have no problem continuing to work there, health permitting, for until I was 68 or even 70.  But my immediate boss (the CFO) was already planning to retire when he turns 65 in October so our two-person office (we comprise the Finance department) in South Carolina office would close, anyway.  No way would the owner hire another CFO in South Carolina; he'd hire someone in NY where the company is based.
The only reason the company Finance department is in South Carolina is due to Covid.  When everyone started working remotely in 2020, my boss and his wife moved to a house they owned down here (they had been renting it out).  He rented a small office in town and hired me as his assistant.  But I'd likely have been out of a job come the end of October, anyway.
The owner of the company can't seem to make up his mind about what to do.  Now there's talk about keeping things going through the end of 2025 but dumping the radio advertising side and just keep the digital ad side going through the end of the year.
Yet the radio ad programs keep coming in and that's what I handle the billing for, both on the Receivables and Payable sides.  As of the end of last month they'd RIF'd five people.  They are now talking about offering to bring three of them back as part-timers to help handle a large expected radio ad campaign that will run in April.  So as of last week, my RIF date had been pushed back to the end of June or possibly the end of July.
Jill