As folks working lifetime job tenures go the way of the dinosaurs, one man in Brazil — who just turned 100 — recently claimed the world record for the “longest career in the same company.”
Walter Orthmann has been working at ReneauxView in Santa Catarina state for 84 years and 9 days, Guinness World Records verified on Jan. 6, 2022.
His “passion, discipline, and commitment” motivated him to keep plugging away, doing what he loves, for the last eight-plus decades, the organization stated.
Orthmann’s impressive, longevous career began on Jan. 17, 1938, when at the age of 15 he started working as a shipping assistant at a textile company (then called Industrias Renaux S.A.). According to Guinness, he was always very enthusiastic about learning new things and quickly rose up through the company….