Working a lifetime as an employee in the same company is not something frequent in these times of permanent change.
However, until a couple of decades ago, it used to be common for several workers, especially in SMEs and large companies, to complete their entire career path in the same firm.
What is not always usual is recognition of work history, such as the one that occurred this week in Argentina, where an employee of a pasta factory received from the owner of the company a zero kilometer car as a “prize” for 50 years of work in the firm.
This is Juan Carlos Rubiolo, an employee of an SME that manufactures “La Italiana” brand pasta, who he was awarded a Fiat the day he retired.
The firm is located in Córdoba province, in central Argentina.
“I started working for the construction company that built the factory, I was there when the walls and foundations were built. From the beginning next to Mr. Humberto Gualtieri [el dueño original y parte de la familia que hoy maneja la firma]which unfortunately is no more, he brought me here,” Rubiolo told a radio program in LV16.
“I am really very happy, for me this is like a family from the heart. I started my working life here, in this same place, at that time it was an empty lot”, he said.
La Italiana, when Rubiolo started, manufactured 30 kilos of pasta for now, now it produces tons.
Rubiolo, despite having worked at the factory for 50 years, never had access to a new car.
“I never thought I would get to this. They have supported me in bad times, we have gone through the same problems together. Because just as progress is now, we have had difficult times”, said the employee who leaves the company after 50 years.
When he received the car from the owner of the company, he said: “It’s very difficult to say, I don’t know if I deserve it, but they have made this decision. I have lived within the company, I have worked night and day in the company. If he had to come, he would come. A little I feel mine, and that’s why it’s hard for me to leave.
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