Saturday 16 June 2018

Last day on the job after forty years

Crossed the South Saskatchewan River on the Lemsford Ferry in Saskatchewan on June 9, 2018. The ferry operator told me it was his last day on the job and he had been doing it for forty years. He has a farm and runs that when he is not running the ferry. Nice guy. I suggested that maybe at the end of his shift they would show up with a cake to give him a send off. He laughed and said what would likely happen is that when his shift ends he would just hand off to the next guy and drive home. There are worse ways to end a job.



7 comments:

  1. It will be the best day of his working life.

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  2. Everyone has to retire sometime, I guess.

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  3. There's a ferry across the Ohio River about an hour's drive upstream from us, if it's running this summer.

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  4. Sounds like he won't be disappointed, as his expectations aren't high. What a shame though after all those years, nothing was done.

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