So, last weekend's mail (I'm not sure what day; I was away Friday and Saturday) brought my official U.S. notifications of retirement: a letter from Social Security telling me what I would receive and when, plus, in another envelope, my Medicare card.
Then, yesterday, my boss announced my Dec. 31 retirement first in a departmental meeting and then in an officewide e-mail.
Some of my co-workers were shocked, some acted as though my leaving was both unheard of and would be a hardship and one was actually distraught.
Long ago, as younger people would leave the company for new jobs, I coined the phrase "You can't wipe the smile off the face of a short-timer." Now, it's my face and my smile.
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