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Imagine working for the same company for decades. You’re approaching retirement, and then you find out the company is closing. Sounds awful, doesn’t it? You’re out of a job right before you hit retirement, and there may not even be severance pay.

That’s the situation one man finds himself in, and his child is upset on his behalf.

There’s a lesson to this story. 

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Dad is losing his job after 40 years right before retirement

CVS is an awful company.

My father started out working for Osco when he was young. Osco eventually got bought out by CVS. He has worked as a store manager for basically his entire life.

The only reason he owns a home is because Osco had some sort of program to help employees get approved for mortgages in the 90s.

This is awful timing.

My dad has been extremely loyal for decades and now that he is less than a decade out from retirement he was informed 2 weeks before Christmas that his store is getting closed and they will not be transferring him to another store.

They haven’t told him whether or not there will be any severance and the closure will be happening in less than a month.

The only sort of silver lining is that CVS can’t just cut off their health insurance immediately which is great considering he recently had surgery and probably needs another surgery soon.

Unloading a truck for the last 40 years has ripped apart his body and his shoulders are messed up.

Both of OP’s parents sound like very hard workers.

My mom has a job as a pharmacy tech which doesn’t pay very much and even though she works full time, she technically isn’t full time so she doesn’t get any benefits.

I’m so livid with the whole situation.

My dad worked 2 jobs for most of his life and just a couple years ago “retired” from his second job.

He has spent the last 40 years working over 60 hours a week.

The dad has worked his whole life.

He grew up incredibly poor and actually started working at the age of 6, detasseling corn with his family.

He dug graves as a teenager and rouged.

He went to a couple years of college before he had to drop out to support his family.

He wanted to be a writer. In fact he even wrote a book for the family and it’s funny as hell.

He was a very loyal employee.

It’s just cruel that he spent his whole life working so hard and now right when the finish line was in sight he had everything taken away from him.

A couple years ago my dad posted on FB about some country musician coming to town that he loved. The post was something along the lines of “If I didn’t have to close the store tonight I would be there”

And I commented on the post saying he should just close the store early and go anyway. What difference is 2 hours gonna make?

He laughed it off and said something about needing to have good work ethic.

This is a good point.

Look where a good work ethic got him.

And don’t make the same mistakes he did.

They will use you until you are broken and throw you away because you cost too much.

Working for “the man” doesn’t always pay off the way you’d hoped. It really is incredibly unfortunate timing for OP’s dad.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

Another person has strong feelings about CVS.

This person has advice.

Another person thinks this story makes a good point.

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This person points out when it makes sense to be loyal and when it doesn’t.

It’s true that companies often don’t care about the people. They care about the bottom line. It’s really unfortunate for OP’s dad. It really does go to show that being loyal and having a good work ethic doesn’t always pay off in the long run.

Life can be unfair.