Forty years of work, and someone finally put it into something other than a plaque.
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A retirement is not a leaving do. Someone is closing thirty or forty years and the standard response is a cake in a meeting room, a card, and possibly an engraved item they will put in a drawer. The scale is completely wrong. This person has spent more waking hours in this building than in their own house.
A retirement song has the room for it. The year they started, the technology that has changed three times since, the people they trained who now run the place, and what happens on Monday when there is nowhere to be. It works at the office party and it works at the family dinner, and it is one of the very few gifts that gets played more than once.
The whole career
The year they started, the job title that no longer exists, the three restructures they survived. Give us the arc, not a job description.
From the people they trained
Half the department learned it from them. That is the real legacy and it belongs in the song more than any sales figure.
What comes next
The boat, the garden, the grandkids, the plan they have been describing since 2019. End the song on Monday morning, not on the last day.
Thirty two years, Dave. A plaque was never going to cover it, so we had La Ritournelle turn the whole career into a retirement song. Sit down before you press play.
Name: Dave. Bond: colleague, thirty two years at the same firm. Occasion: Retirement. Tone: funny and fond. Anecdote: he started when the office had one computer and he was not allowed to touch it, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: played at the retirement party. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Name: Angela. Bond: manager, from a team she largely built. Occasion: Retirement. Tone: warm and celebratory. Anecdote: four of the six people in the room were hired and trained by her, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: played at the office send off. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Name: Grandad Bill. Bond: father and grandfather, retiring at sixty six. Occasion: Retirement. Tone: reflective and unhurried. Anecdote: he has been describing the boat he is going to buy since 2019 and has still not bought it, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: played at the family dinner that weekend. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Their name, the year they started, the stories from across the decades, and what they are retiring into.
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Play it at the retirement party, or save it for the family dinner that weekend.
You do not fit all of it in, you pick five things. The year they started, one disaster, one person they trained, one habit everyone knows, and what happens next. Five specifics beat a chronology every time.
Yes. The song is ready in minutes once the brief is in, so even a last minute one plays at the do. If the department wants in, ask each person for one memory this morning and put them all in the brief, so it comes from everyone rather than from whoever got stuck organizing it.
Yes, and many do. If you want it to work for both rooms, tell us in the brief and we keep the office jokes explainable so the family is not sitting in silence.
No, but be honest in the brief. A song that pretends everyone is thrilled will ring false. One that says the work mattered and the person mattered is the right register.
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