A Valued Employee.



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Erna Cartwright turned 100 years old on October 31st. That in itself is noteworthy, but she has yet to retire! Ms. Cartwright is a bookkeeper for the Oshkosh City Cab Company, where she has worked for 60 years. She has had jobs for a total of 82 years. She says she has no plans to retire. Link


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Posted on October 31, 2006 at 11:42 pm by Miss Cellania
Category: World Records



6 comments to "A Valued Employee."

  • mark
    November 1st, 2006 at 6:15 am

    Even thou this a lovely story, I wish that older people would actually go on retirement or do volunteer work to leave room for youngsters to find a job and earn a living.
    But again, congrats!

  • Not Mark
    November 1st, 2006 at 8:02 am

    Really Mark!? Come on, really? You’re kidding right?

  • Denita TwoDragons
    November 1st, 2006 at 10:07 am

    Yeah, Mark, make them leave the workplace and fill up the already-overcrowded retirement homes instead. Their dignity and emotional health is secondary to some inexperienced young punk needing a job. /sarcastic

    –TwoDragons

  • donna
    November 2nd, 2006 at 1:33 pm

    Mark’s comment is actually the real reason Social Security came into being - to encourage older workers to leave the workforce and make way for younger men to enter the workplace who did not have jobs.

    Learn some history, people.

  • Aleki
    November 2nd, 2006 at 11:13 pm

    He didn’t say anything about “Making” them leave the workplace. However if she’s capable and obviously qualified more power to her. If she’s working because she has to though… that’s just sad.

  • not mark
    November 3rd, 2006 at 11:29 am

    Obviously she is capable, otherwise she would be fired. It’s called a free market for a reason. Social Security is redundant in today’s economy.

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