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About being laid off and unwanted when you're 59
The Star (South Chicago) ^
| 4/23/6
| Michael Bowers
Posted on 04/23/2006 7:49:45 AM PDT by SmithL
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Give Bower's column a hit. Getting laid-off at any age is traumatic. BTDT.
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posted on
04/23/2006 7:49:47 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Welcome to my world. In fact, most of my friends of the same age have been laid off. One was fired after telling her boss that she planned to retire in two years.
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posted on
04/23/2006 7:52:13 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: SmithL
He got an offer for some contract work. There were no benefits, but it was a paying job. That is the point. No employer is going to be liable for benefits to an older person.
The medical/insurance unholy alliance is at work again. Markets can't provide solutions when they are warped to distortion by ill conceived regulations; but "black-markets" will arise...
To: SmithL
I know a 60 year old man who worked for Astro cap for about twenty years untill he was laid off. Today he stands at a plunge grinder for ten hours a day at $8 an hour.
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posted on
04/23/2006 7:54:48 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: windcliff; stylecouncilor
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posted on
04/23/2006 7:55:01 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: SmithL
By 59 he should have saved enough so that he could retire. Then it wouldn't really matter if he were laid off. His savings should have been enough for your food, clothing, health insurance, and whatever fun he wants to have. Your home should be paid off by then.
But, this is the "live for the now" society where many spend every penny rather than save for the day when they get laid off.
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posted on
04/23/2006 7:59:01 AM PDT
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
Then it wouldn't really matter if he were laid off.You tell 'em!
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:03:31 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(There is a looming Tupperware shortage. Plan appropriately.)
To: SmithL
Today, it really starts getting tough at 40. There recently was a FReeper who offered this advice: "Young workers should find a good job and start saving their money so that by the time they turn 40, they will be in a position to start their own business.
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:03:52 AM PDT
by
BW2221
To: SmithL
What a crap thing to do, if you expect two weeks notice from your employees be damn sure to grant two weeks to people you hire..
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:04:27 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: SmithL
I guess it depends on where you work. We beg nurses to continue working. By law you can't be discriminated by age unless it affects your job. Personally, though I frown on hiring anyone thst tells me they can start tomorrow and does not care about giving their old boss a resignation period. If they will up and quit on her then they will do the same to me when something better comes along.
To: Glenn
Oh, is it not true?
You tell 'em too!!!
Sadly morons don't learn from history, their mistakes, and the mistakes that they see their friends make. Then they go out and don't save for retirement, expecting the govt. to take money away from others and give it to them when they want it. Although Harry doesn't seem to fit the moron definition perfectly, he didn't bother saving for retirement.
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:08:26 AM PDT
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: the invisib1e hand
The medical/insurance unholy alliance is at work again I am closing in on 50 years. I saw the hand writing on the wall a few years ago. I quit smoking and got in shape just in case I need to look for a new job.
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:09:11 AM PDT
by
EVO X
To: BW2221
Actually by 45-50 I plan on going into teaching its always been a dream of mine and if I get into it early enough 45 I can do it for 20 years and get some kind of pension in addition to my savings now as an Engineer..
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:09:50 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
He just needs to make lemonade from his lemons. It might be the perfect opportunity to start his own business. With that kind of attitude it probably wasn't that great a job anyway.
To: Black Birch
It's tough, that's sure. But to borrow a phrase from Michael Medved, "I am not a victim!"
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:12:33 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: SmithL
No problemo. Plenty of Reconquistas to take our place without the pesky matching funds and health benefits packages to bother employers bottom line.../S/
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:14:36 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: BW2221
they will be in a position to start their own business
Not everyone is suited to start or run a business. This, I am afraid, is globalist claptrap designed to trick Americans into accepting the employment problems in this country, and not to question the looting of our domestic economy by transnationalist outsourcing, offshoring and FDI.
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:15:48 AM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
Then they go out and don't save for retirement, expecting the govt. to take money away from others and give it to them when they want it.I read nothing of the sort in this article about Harry. You are just using him to express a point of view even though there is a vacuum of fact.
That Harry is 59 and would like to continue to work is laudable. I'd guess he has a 401k somewhere he'd like to continue to contribute to, though I have no facts to support the guess.
The one fact is, we tech oldsters do have to face the fact that there is a pasture and we will be put out in it if it is the will of the boss. You bring up proper points, but I'm not sure they apply to Harry.
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:16:16 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(There is a looming Tupperware shortage. Plan appropriately.)
To: CindyDawg
It might be the perfect opportunity to start his own business
Claptrap.
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:16:25 AM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: CindyDawg
He just needs to make lemonade from his lemons.Exactly!...
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posted on
04/23/2006 8:17:18 AM PDT
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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