They Fired Me On My 55th Birthday After 29 Years But Three Months Later The Company Was Fighting To Survive

why the company no longer had a place for me. Outside the glass walls, Chicago had disappeared behind sheets of rain so thick the river below looked like a dream of a river. Inside, twenty-nine years disappeared in less than five minutes.

No retirement luncheon. No plaque on the wall. No acknowledgment of the three decades I had given to a company that continue reading …