NationStates Jolt Archive

May 1 is my birthday. I will go to bed on April, 30 a middle-aged woman and wake up May 1 as a geezer.

As some of you may know, I retired from the University of California last December and more or less washed my hands of them (it was sort of a forced retirement, and there were hard feelings in some areas). Today I received a birthday card from everyone (including the Department Chair and my immediat supervisor) in my old department. I'm not quite sure how to respond, but I think I'll send a nice, chatty e-mail thanking them for thinking of me and telling them how great retirement is.

What would you do?

HB from someone who is in the 1st of may
an send them the email just to show you have move on in life

There is no April 31st!

There is no April 31st!

My bad, typo. Fixed.

May 1 is my birthday. I will go to bed on April, 30 a middle-aged woman and wake up May 1 as a geezer.

As some of you may know, I retired from the University of California last December and more or less washed my hands of them (it was sort of a forced retirement, and there were hard feelings in some areas). Today I received a birthday card from everyone (including the Department Chair and my immediat supervisor) in my old department. I'm not quite sure how to respond, but I think I'll send a nice, chatty e-mail thanking them for thinking of me and telling them how great retirement is.

What would you do?

well i've got just over another year to go myself, as far as the age thing goes. my own birthday is on the 27th and i was born a year after you in 1948.

i've never been much of a people person so i kind of doubt i could ever have gotten myself into the kind of position you were pushed out of. my usual reaction to frendly greatings of questionable sincerity is no reaction or response at all. can't really see as how one is really required. and generaly kinda halfway doubt one is really expected.

just one of those things i've always looked at as not worth losing sleep over.

a simple, polite, completely neutral acknowledgement of receipt, not in any way pointedly unresponsive or anything like that, but extremely noncommital otherwise, is, what i would consider, if any, an appropriate response to the situation as you've described it.

but as for myself of course, as already mentioned, i kindof doubt i'd remember to get arround to it.

i doubt i have any good advice, not being too familiar with the situation or likely to be. not that i haven't several times been forced in no uncertain terms to 'resign' from here and there.

but my tendency when having done so has been to more or less dissappear into thin air and not really maintian any sort of contacts. again this is not advise and would probably be bad advise and may be why i've never held a loftier possition then heavy equipment apprentice and that only briefly. but i can only speak from my own limited experience, and that's pretty much what mine is limited to.

=^^=
.../\...

May 1 is my birthday. I will go to bed on April, 30 a middle-aged woman and wake up May 1 as a geezer.

As some of you may know, I retired from the University of California last December and more or less washed my hands of them (it was sort of a forced retirement, and there were hard feelings in some areas). Today I received a birthday card from everyone (including the Department Chair and my immediat supervisor) in my old department. I'm not quite sure how to respond, but I think I'll send a nice, chatty e-mail thanking them for thinking of me and telling them how great retirement is.

What would you do?

Send them an exploding cake. :)

There is no April 31st!

That's what the government WANTS you to think!

As some of you may know, I retired from the University of California last December and more or less washed my hands of them (it was sort of a forced retirement, and there were hard feelings in some areas). Today I received a birthday card from everyone (including the Department Chair and my immediat supervisor) in my old department. I'm not quite sure how to respond, but I think I'll send a nice, chatty e-mail thanking them for thinking of me and telling them how great retirement is.

What would you do?

I'd ignore them. I have relatives who work in the CSU system, one a tenured professor of 15 years or so.. he probably hasn't spoken to anyone in his department in about 11 years, other than in protest over something or the other. :p Makes me wonder how they forced you out.. maybe the UC system is more political.

May 1 is my birthday. I will go to bed on April, 30 a middle-aged woman and wake up May 1 as a geezer.

As some of you may know, I retired from the University of California last December and more or less washed my hands of them (it was sort of a forced retirement, and there were hard feelings in some areas). Today I received a birthday card from everyone (including the Department Chair and my immediat supervisor) in my old department. I'm not quite sure how to respond, but I think I'll send a nice, chatty e-mail thanking them for thinking of me and telling them how great retirement is.

What would you do?
First retirement you say?
Probably Tubgirl them.:p

My bad, typo. Fixed.
WTF OVER?
Exprain prease.

Send them an exploding cake. :)

Even better! Bake them tasty biscuits or cookies or mini-cake things, and send them those, to show there's no hard feelings!

Just include some little ingredient that'll dye their tongues bright blue for a few days :D

Send them an exploding cake. :)

Better yet!

Throw a party, and take a picture of yourself exploding out of a cake, all liquored up, with a sign behind you that reads someting to the effect of "Bugger off!"

In other words, have a good time and throw it in thier face.