Twenty-seven years spent in the workshop department
Retirement time has also arrived for Alberto Vignoli. He joined Officina as a temporary worker in 1997 with a one-week contract and has not left his job for 27 years. “After the first three years,’ says Vignoli, ‘I hoped for a permanent contract, because I liked the work and because I saw great prospects in this company; and I was not wrong. Thanks to that contract I became professionally fulfilled, but I was also able to realise my life’s dreams’. On the day of his discharge, Alberto could not hold back emotion and tears: ‘I was very fond of my job and my workmates,’ he says, ‘and I also had an extraordinary relationship with the management. Giuliano then was a perfect employer; I still remember when he and Antonella insisted that I address them with ‘tu’: a simple gesture but one that made me feel like a friend’.