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April 29, 2022 06:42 pm
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/29/1813238/meet-the-centenarian-who-holds-the-world-record-for-the-longest-career-at-one-company?utm_source=rss1
Meet the Centenarian Who Holds the World Record for the Longest Career at One Company
Walter Orthmann started working at a textile company in Brazil as a teenager. Now, after turning 100 this month, he's shattered the Guinness World Record for the longest career at the same company. From a report: For 84 years and nine days, as verified in January, Orthmann has been working at what is now known as ReneauxView, according to the Guinness World Records. In those eight decades, he's collected pay in nine different currencies. Orthmann was born in Santa Catarina, Brazil -- an area that had a large German population -- on April 19, 1922, according to Guinness. As a teenager, his family hit hard times financially, and he applied to work at a weaving mill. Thanks to his proficiency in German, the young Orthmann got a job there as a shipping assistant. Soon after, he was promoted to a position in sales before becoming a sales manager. "I was given the opportunity to work as a salesperson," he said in a release. "I traveled to Sao Paulo and in less than one week I filled the production with orders equivalent of three month of work." In the 1950s, he started traveling across the country, establishing relationships with clients who became his friends. To Orthmann, having a job means a sense of "purpose, commitment and a routine," according to the release.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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