Industry has changed. Ten years ago, they were doing their best to get rid of aging workers, now they're doing their best to keep them.
According to some executives I know, it's because they are better educated than recent graduates and because they have a well-developed work ethic, they understand how business works, and they complain less.
We've been hearing a lot of complaining from certain Gen-Xers about the cost of Social Security which will result from so many people retiring in such a short time period.
But as we know, a lot of Boomers haven't put together a proper nest egg, and many will continue to work years longer than anyone previously expected. That's what corporate HR departments are hoping anyway.
So soon we may see a shift from Gen-Xers complaining about retiring boomers to complaining about the ones who DON'T retire and vacate their high-paying jobs at the top, making advancement harder on younger employees.
In fact, not too long ago I heard the same compliants in the same discussion from the same individual.
I reommended he look into "Hooked Phonics".
People, wait till your job description gets redefined into something that you can no longer do, whether it's because of age or health or whatever. HR knows this, it's how they trim the workforce. You'll be forced to retire, then the people in HR will get a big bonus. (And then the bustards go to hell, but that's a topic for the religious threads.)