In April, they decided she could give notice. During her last months on the job, one supervisor was surprisingly on board with Kincaid's plans. A different supervisor, eight to 10 years younger than Kincaid, expressed a lot of skepticism. "He was like, 'Yeah, right.' But I kept plugging away, and I talked about it openly," she said.
Her boss blew her off. "I don't know if it was the age difference or the mentality," she said. "The day I let him know, he paused. Then he slammed his hand down on the desk." "When we announced it to the rest of my peers, he kind of chuckled. 'I don't have to be worried about the rest of you, because no one is as frugal as Mindy is.' "After Kincaid's announcement, the company's instant message system lit up like a Christmas tree, she says. People didn't want to talk about it out loud, but they certainly wanted to discuss it silently. One man walked over to her desk to chat.
Most commonly, Kincaid says, people tell her, "You always said you would do it. Help talk me through it."Coworkers are often intrigued when they learn someone has found a way to work fewer years., D.J. Cummins, 37, was hired in April as a market researcher for a St. Louis company, where his group director is an acquaintance. He is fairly sure his boss is a surreptitious reader of his blog.
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