This content was created by Thomas Anglero. This content was uploaded by Thomas Anglero. This is a YouTube video titled "The Truth About Workplace Friendships After Retirement" (created 2025-03-23T17:04:32Z). The excerpt is a spoken monologue by a narrator (labeled SPEAKER A) recounting a woman who retired after 41 years at a single company—rising from secretary to global director—and reflecting on how colleagues behaved after her retirement. The passage focuses on themes of workplace friendships vs. professional relationships and the emotional impact of retirement; the narrator directly addresses someone named "Thomas" while telling the anecdote.
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She just retired. 41 years she worked for one single company. She started when she was 16, 17 years old. 41 years the same company. She started off as a secretary filing paperwork. Her career went straight up. She ended up as a vice president, as a director, a global head of global companies. Fantastic, wonderful career. She told me stories. I remember she told me a story. She was with a project team. They would travel around the world. They stood at mountaintops. Looking over the edge, the whole team holding hands and going, "My God, look at this." Moments that changed them. They remember going to— she told me, "We went to restaurants and we ate food that was so good it made our toes curl." And she says, "We worked on projects that was so late at night that things got giggly, and we laughed that laugh that makes people cry." And she said, "Years later, we would talk about that one night and that laugh that we shared." So I called her up the other day and I said, "How are you doing?" And she said to me, "You know, since I retired, no one's called me." And I said, "What?" She goes, "It's worse than that." She goes, "Before I left, before I retired, two women especially, who I've been working with for years, they said, 'You know, you're a fantastic person. You have all these innovative ideas. When you retire, I'm going to hire you. I want to take all your ideas into my company. I want to take you into my company. We're going to grow. We look forward to you retiring. It's going to be fantastic. She says, I called those two girls, and they both told me the same exact thing. They said, we've taken your ideas into the company already. We don't need you. Click. She then told me, Thomas, After 41 years, I realized the people that I've been working with, they're not my friends. They're my colleagues. How many of us are pushing things down the road?
