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One of the first hourly employees at Wentzville, Glenn Parrott accepts buyout after 41 years of service
Erica Burrus photo/ Glenn Parrott spent 41 years with General Motors in St. Louis and Wentzville without missing a day of work or taking vacation.
By Eric Becker
Friday, July 25, 2008 3:47 PM CDT
Ask Glenn Parrott what it was like to work 41 years without a vacation or sick day at General Motors, first in St. Louis and then in Wentzville, and a twinkling smile slowly creeps across his face, until his eyes light up and you know you’re about to hear one heck of a story.
The 59-year-old South St. Louis County resident, who commuted since the 1980s to Wentzville for work, was one of nearly 300 workers at the GM Assembly Center in Wentzville to take voluntary retirement in June as part of GM’s efforts to phase in a younger workforce and cut costs as its fortunes have waned.
Parrott is a man of many interests that extend far beyond the auto oregon vacation rental industry. He loves to review restaurants (he says he’s reviewed more than 2,000 for Zagat Survey, The Riverfront Times and Passport Unlimited restaurant club) and plans to segue comfortably into evaluating antiques and top family vacation spots estate management.He also has myriad thoughts on the auto industry, having written his master’s thesis on the future battles between American and foreign car companies, entitled “Car Wars: The Next Generation.”
As he sat down to lunch at Blueberry Hill for an afternoon pastrami sandwich — the best in St. Louis, he says — it doesn’t take long for Parrott to string together the events of the last 41 years in a few moments’ time.
Married for 31 years to his wife, Christine, Parrott has worked in the auto industry since the day after he graduated from Mehlville High School in June 1967. He walked into Fisher Body Assembly Plant, later General Motors, and applied for a job.
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That first job was sealing windshields. When that GM plant closed 15 years later, Parrott was among the first 25 hourly workers at the GM Assembly Center in Wentzville in October 1982. A new company system allowed workers to discuss and debate for open positions. He joined the windshield department.
Since then he’s had many positions: team leader, departmental team leader, line supervisor, quality network planned maintenance team leader, suggestion team member and material driver.
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So what led Parrott — who only scheduled vacation days during times the plant was down, on work holidays or as models were switched over — to take the buyout? It wasn’t just the $45,000 pension package those with more than 30 years at GM would receive.
“After closely studying the 2006 buyout, I made it my personal goal to pay off my home and car to better position myself should there be another offer in the future,” Parrott said.
In March, he got his chance. Now, instead of spending $21 a day on fuel driving to Wentzville, vacation rental ohau hawaii he’ll have more time for volunteering with the American Cancer Society, best vacation offers which he has done with his wife for 12 years, and perhaps do more traveling, host dinner parties (another passion) or even meander into a hobby or two.
During a recent alumni meeting at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Parrott was asked to submit a resume and come in for an interview for a teaching opening.
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Parrott says the two-tiered wage scale where younger workers are being hired at about half of the wage those of Parrott’s era make is one sign of the difficulty American automakers face. He’s also seen benefits decrease and experienced workers leave, and says NAFTA and foreign car imports have dug into U.S. automakers.
“I worry about the industry in general, although all my friends and previous co-workers at Wentzville are relatively secure for the next few years,” Parrott said. “Wentzville has a product in demand.”
Parrott has other accomplishments, as well. On June 20, St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley proclaimed the day Glenn Parrott Day. His hard work also hadn’t gone unnoticed at GM. Parrott said he had received letters from the president of GM, congratulating him as the longest-serving GM employee to never miss a day of work.
He also holds another distinction: At one point, he was the employee who most used the company’s tuition reimbursement program. Receiving an associate’s degree at St. Louis Community College at canadian rockies vacation packages Meramec, and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business at Lindenwood, Parrott managed to go through some $77,000 of tuition reimbursement in pursuit of a higher education.
Within a few short minutes of meeting Parrott, one soon discovers that much excites him. Behind an amicable boisterousness is a man who appears to hold strong opinions, but exercises judgment in sharing them. And after 41 years with GM, Parrott looks back with a mix of nostalgia for his old workplace and betrays a near giddiness at the thought of what retirement might have in store for him.
“Although I understand fully after 41 years of service at GM, I’m no spring chicken, I believe that at age 58 I’ve still got a good second act in me,” Parrott said.
That second act will include pet friendly vacation rentals lake amistad a hobby Parrott has nursed along for three decades — collecting and selling antiques, rarities and fine collectibles. He’s developed relationships with dealers and galleries across the cheapest vacation in las vegas U.S., from which he’s gained knowledge he says he hopes will help him transition into estate management.
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