World s most loyal employee dies aged 98 after joining Edinburgh law firm as teenager
John Burns had worked at the TC Young Wilson Terris, in Edinburgh, since he was 14-years-old.
John Burns at the law firm where he worked for 84 years
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World’s Most Loyal Employee Dead After 84 Years Of Working For The Same Firm
John Burns was 98 and still working at TC Young Wilson Terris, in Edinburgh, the firm he joined as a 14-year-old. He spoke of retiring weeks before his death but hadn’t got round to it.
He was still hand-delivering legal documents, bound in ribbon, around the Court of Session.
John missed out on Guinness World Records for the longest career in the same company, but only because he was serving his country during the Second World War and broke his continuous employment.
The record is held by Walter Orthmann from Brazil at 81 years and 85 days. But John’s continuous service was broken during the Second World War.