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Re: I sympathize.
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To the mousie, it don't matter who's at fault. And by the time you get your new instructions, its too late to change your strategy. Not to mention, you had precious little opportunity to have much to do with it in the first place.

I didn't quit my job so I could sit back and relax on my unearned benefits. I was forced to retire early, even though I was perfectly able and willing to work to full retirement and contribute to my world and my community in my chosen profession. I don't think that was too much to ask.

But in spite of all the shortages of science and math guys, of experienced workers and people of demonstrated loyalty and dependability, not to mention all that seniority we were supposed to be lavished with, I suddenly became redundant and superfluous, unless of course, I accepted a cut in pay and benefits.

I was not abusing my extravagant benefits, I was one of the few who wasn't forced to submit to the blackmail and put up with the humiliation because I had no choice. I got to tell the Dark Lord of the Sith to find some 22 year old slacker illiterate with a business AA to draw his maps. I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

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