Dwain,

If you use MS Internet Explorer as your browser, please download ieSpell. I don't usually get picky about spelling, but I wonder how someone could read many dozens of posts over a period of days that include posts that spell the words "corporation" and "benefit" correctly without figuring out they are spelling those words incorrectly. Benefits are what you appear to be fighting for, and the corporation is who will or won't provide them....

Attrition due to retirement is the least painful way for a company to reduce their workforce, if that's what they need to do. Wanting/requiring employees to do more (increased productivity) as time passes is necessary for any business to be competitive and/or grow. If you aren't producing/doing more for your paycheck than you were last month, last year, or 10 years ago, you should be paid the same wages and bennies as you were when you stopped increasing your value to the company. Doing just enough to get by makes you expendable. A factory full of employees doing just enough to get by makes that whole factory expendable.

Take the $140k quit working cash, get a MI gaming license, and get a job in one of the Detroit casinos if you are so unhappy or nervous with what is happening around you.