Colleagues applauded when Steve Wilcox announced he wasn’t ready to retire yet.
Wilcox, senior operator at the Arlington County (Virginia) Water Pollution Control Plant, took the four-year extension the county offers to team members who qualify for retirement. “It was a standing ovation,” Wilcox remembers. “They said they wanted to clone me and keep me around.”No doubt that’s because Wilcox is an indispensable member of the Arlington County team. He has been there for 32 years serving as an operator while training others on his own day shift and night shifts. (The plant operates two 12-hour shifts).“I like to help people,
