Reply #29: Yep! And back then one had to really try hard not to have a job. Back then if you

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lost your job it was generally due to the fact you really F'ed up. There was a lot of disgrace back then with losing a job. Employers really cared about you for the most part.

In the corps. I worked in I recall going to meeting after meeting where they told you how valued you were. In one company where I worked you could not be let go after 10 years without your manager and director explaining to the president of the company how you could be a 10 year employee and let go. His goal was to see if your manager and director should be let go instead. And that was true at all levels, right down to the lowest level job in the company, and it was not even a union company. Once hired, they wanted you for your whole career.

I worked at several companies like that.

I also felt good about the country back then. Sure, sometimes it was really F'ed up, but I felt it was a solid country, that we would make it better and better.

Anyway, just a couple examples above... but anymore I feel all of that has gone away, I don't feel the stability anymore, I don't feel we are all pulling together. Anymore it's just a damn uncomfortable feeling.