[rattlsnak]

ok, here is a sample,, (all the names have been changed!

Sen# Employee # Name D.O.H. Birthday

1 234 tom 7/28/1979 8/28/1949
2 453 jeff 4/27/1980 6/23/1947
3 456 tim 12/1/1980 1/5/1952
4 786 mike 1/22/1981 9/14/1954
5 3465 mark 1/21/1982 12/11/1952
6 478 chris 4/9/1982 10/22/1949
7 877 james 5/24/1982 11/14/1950
8 00898 steve 6/1/1982 5/30/1957

I have them all in seperate columns. (seniority in A, employee in B, name in C, etc) Date of hire revelance, equals seniority order, so that column is really not important, but as you can see number 6 will retire before a few before him.