Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is really a story of nuance and understanding. First, we should all accept everyone in the workplace as long as job requirements are met or improving. However, baby boomers need to let our children and their children come in to the workplace and rise as abilities dictate. It is a hard balance as there are so many boomers that were not especially provident in saving; they simply can not afford to retire. But listening to my daughter there is a real problem of her generation rising in the workforce. The upper branches are clogged by boomers hanging on. This is probably more an issue for old careers as new industries tend to be looking for many new skills not widely held by older workers. In TECH especially in cases like Brian's, the X'rs and millennials are doing to the boomers what we boomers have been doing to them in older industries. The exception is in truly upper ranks in Fortune 100 companies that operate much like the military which is up or out. So in those industries once you hit 50 unless you are viewed as C suite you will be riffed out by 60. This happens for a lot of reasons some financial like healthcare costs, salary and bonus expense as well as increased accrued vacation. More importantly, the industry wants to rapidly move up in the ranks those high talent younger workers that are viewed as potential winners before they exit the organization. In essence the company wants to do the weeding out. On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:12 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > Since LUG membership is aging, I thought this might be of interest. > > > > https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2019/age-discrimination-court-cases.html > > part of > > > > https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2019/age-discrimination-in-america.html > > The picture of me by Robyn Twomey was taken with a Canon EOS 6D with EF > 24-70mm f/2.8L II lens. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com