Roughly 10 years ago, I took a temp job at a smallish fab shop that made boat trailers, lasted about six months. Weird place to work. It was a union shop where people started out at a very low hourly and got rapid year on year raises, to the point where people with 8+ years were making 50$/hr (in 2010) to operate fairly simple machinery, and got 6 weeks of vacation a year. Overall, the union and the management got along well enough, so this isn't a “What horrible upper management!” post.
But due to the union and the pay, most of the people there had been working for decades, because they were never going to find another job that paid them nearly as well for the same skill level. Blue collar golden handcuffs.
While I was there, one of the employees reached his 50th year with the company. 66 years old, he'd been working there since he was 16. Predictably, management decides to throw a party. We all show up, and management brings in the party supplies.
One bucket of vegetarian bean and cheese burritos from the next door Mexican shop. Nobody in the shop was vegetarian. The real cheap kind, like.. 3 burritos for 2$ sort of cheap. Enough for one for each person, no extras. No hot sauce, no salsa. Overall, it was really surreal. Management sprung for barely 20$ worth of the cheapest food available, so they could throw a paid hour long party for 1500$/hr worth of employees.
Not so doom and gloom as most of the posts here, but I thought you might get a kick out of it.