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    L.A. bus worker calls it quits at 100
    Last Updated Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:52:37 EST
    CBC News

    A bus maintenance worker in Los Angeles will mark his 100th birthday Wednesday by retiring after more than 70 years on the job.

    "I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long," Arthur Winston told the Associated Press at a ceremony held in his honour on Tuesday.

    "I'm going to miss my crew, but I'll find plenty of things to do with my free time."

    According to transit officials, Winston had a near-perfect attendance record. The only work day he ever missed was when his wife of 65 years died in 1988, AP reported.

    Winston arrived in California after drought and storms drove his family out of Oklahoma in the 1920s.

    "In 1924, at age 17, Mr. Winston started cleaning trolley cars for the Los Angeles Railway Co., which morphed and merged nearly half a dozen times and is now the Metropolitan Transportation Authority," the Los Angeles Times said in a 1997 profile.

    "He quit that job for a spell, then went back Jan. 24, 1934. He has never left."

    "The barber refuses to take his money."

    He was something of a celebrity in South Los Angeles, the Times continued, "the result of being around so long that he seems to know just about everybody (or everybody's great-grandparents). People fuss over him. The barber refuses to take his money.

    "Men in their 60s and 70s stop to tell Mr. Winston they have been emulating him since they were boys."

    In recent years, Winston led an 11-member crew that cleaned and refueled buses at the Arthur Winston Division, a South L.A. bus yard named in his honour in 1997, China's official Xinhua news agency noted.

    "Employee of the Century"

    In 1996, he received a congressional citation as "Employee of the Century" from U.S. President Bill Clinton.

    The secret of his long working life?

    "I don't smoke, and I don't drink and I don't fool with these credit cards," he told CBS News in 2004.




    Looks good for an old bastard.

    70 ****ing years on the job. Wow.
    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
    Stadtluft Macht Frei
    Killing it is the new killing it
    Ultima Ratio Regum

  • #2
    He doesn't look 100.

    I wonder how big his family is...
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    • #3
      To be fair, that shot is from when he was a young'un of 97 or 98...
      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
      Stadtluft Macht Frei
      Killing it is the new killing it
      Ultima Ratio Regum

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Urban Ranger
        I wonder how big his family is...
        I'd guess not very if he's never missed a day of work, save one: the day his wife died, since Jan. 24, 1934.
        The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

        The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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        • #5
          Hate to tell you this, but you'd have looked right silly asking for paternity leave 70 years ago...
          12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
          Stadtluft Macht Frei
          Killing it is the new killing it
          Ultima Ratio Regum

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          • #6
            definitely impressive

            JM
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            • #7
              My hat is off to men like that.

              To any man, in fact, who earns a blue collar living day in and day out for decades at a time.

              I know with absolute certainty that I couldn't do it.
              12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
              Stadtluft Macht Frei
              Killing it is the new killing it
              Ultima Ratio Regum

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              • #8
                He's the kind of cog an employer dreams of. I wonder how labor laws would change if thye found a way to make people operate with less sleep.

                Oh wait...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil#Military
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                Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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                • #9
                  My hat is off to men like that.


                  Yep.
                  KH FOR OWNER!
                  ASHER FOR CEO!!
                  GUYNEMER FOR OT MOD!!!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                    My hat is off to men like that.

                    To any man, in fact, who earns a blue collar living day in and day out for decades at a time.

                    I know with absolute certainty that I couldn't do it.
                    QFT
                    urgh.NSFW

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                    • #11
                      Wow....

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                      • #12
                        I think the bigger shocker is that someone has been in busses for 70 years in LA and is still alive...
                        meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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