The young voted for this fundamental change.
More Baby Boomers now “have” to work, whereas many “kids these days” can just live with Mom and/or Dad.
Are baby-boomers “stealing jobs,” or are they 1)showing up on time 2)consistently 3)with tasks/projects completed on time? Do they 4)have experience and knowledge that the younger set has not yet accumulated? 5)Do they text or do Facebook all day long?
Is it considered “job-stealing” to work to pay your bills and plan your retirement? Or, are baby-boomers being “given the shaft” for being so bold as to exist?
I’m 61 and I’m gonna work until they nail the lid shut.
I guess that makes me an enemy of the people.
First one to the table gets the most.
Early bird gets the worm.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
All things come to he who waits.
That’s a lot of jobs for the boomers. I didn’t know there were that many Wal-Mart greeter positions available.
If an employer is willing to overlook what can sometimes be a cost hit to the group health plan in hiring an older employee, and that older employee manages to get past the sometimes blatant bias directed toward them, then I’d say the older employees are regarded as the better hire.
Younger hires cost less, but are losing out. What might tjis mean, that their value is suspect despite their lower cost? I’d say yes, in general. Work ethic and ethics in general are fading, but are still present generally speaking, among the 50+ age cohort, all the negative Boomer stereotyping aside.
You can’t have something stolen from you, that never belonged to you to begin with.
Strife, strife, and more strife: race, sex, class, age. Divide and conquer, eh, Mr. President Pissboy?
With that said, I will note that my generation and older valued hard work, diigence, and that you had to earn your promotions. The young now are an "entitlement generation" who embody the opposite. That may not be a popular opinion here, but as a Manager for 20 years is my observation.
FRegards...
Other than the brave individuals that sacrifice themselves for their country, most youngers have definite labor and responsibility issues. Their parents take care of their needs and wants so there is little to no incentive. I’d hire a 55 year old with a family to feed in a heartbeat over some idiot 22 year old with nothing more to pay for than beer and cigs.
I feel they are stealling jobs from me.
I am thinking that maybe the best path to a strong nation is not to divide people into groups and then pit the groups against one another: race v. race, gender v. gender, generation v. generation, religion v. religion, working v. stay at home, class v. class, etc. We seem to be going more towards tribalism and pack thinking and away from individualism and freedom.
My wife, a boomer who rarely misses a day, works with a number of young women. They take a day off for a hangnail. Then, when someone else takes a day off, they complain about always having to fill in for them. Of course, they are libs.
I am thinking that maybe the best path to a strong nation is not to divide people into groups and then pit the groups against one another: race v. race, gender v. gender, generation v. generation, religion v. religion, working v. stay at home, class v. class, etc. We seem to be going more towards tribalism and pack thinking and away from individualism and freedom.
If there is any division in the ranks, it shouldn't be boomers vs. younger workers but private sector workers who have lost their jobs due to the massive tax and regulatory structures required to feed and expand the porcine Federal and state bureaucracies vs. the beneficiaries of all of that government largesse.
I retired at 61 as the auto industry imploded in late 08.
That was definitely earlier than I had planned to leave but I’m enjoying it immensely. I think we emphasize finances too much vs the other things you get to enjoy, the gift of low stress, lots of time to do things you enjoy, etc. Things that don’t have to be expensive.
As for the “under 30” crowd, we shouldn’t paint them with too broad a brush. I hang out at an auto service shop that employs about 10 guys, most of them 25 to 35 age bracket and they all work darn hard.
Nobody wants to hire a wet-behind-the-ears idiot that has no clue about real work. America’s learning institutions are pushing out about 10 percent of a functional workforce. JMHO
Also companies are trying to keep their older, more experienced, and more productive work force.