Posted on 04/07/2010 10:18:45 AM PDT by Kartographer
Young adults in the United States are being squeezed out of the labor force as older workers either delay retirement or seek jobs to rebuild nest eggs destroyed by the recession, a study showed on Wednesday.
The size of the labor force fell 6.3 percent for young workers, but increased 8.5 percent for workers 55 years and older between December 2007 and January 2010, according to the study by the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
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And the older workers generally have a basic understanding of English.
The phone company, 1997. On rainy days my phone would ring when no one called.
They sent a beach boy who I watched on my surveillance camera as he looked at my flowers, rang the doorbell and announced he couldn't find the problem.
I called the phone company and told them to send an older technician. A guy around 40 showed up and was here an hour, climbing his ladder several times yet finding nothing.
I called and told them send an older guy. Soon a technician about 55 came, announced himself, went outside and was back in 5 minutes with the answer. The phone wire was rubbing against a tree, had scraped its insulation off and when it rained the frayed wire and the tree created phantom phone calls.
Not only does experience count huge in efficiency, values and quality of education have tragically plummeted.
Put that in your headlines, Reuters.
[Not only does experience count huge in efficiency, values and quality of education have tragically plummeted.]
You couldn’t have said it better LJ. Especially considering the poor education kids are receiving now days, compared to long ago.
Cashiers who can’t count out change if the cash register goes down. You have to look for an older person to help you in a home - building supply store because the young ones can’t answer a question.
But - the school system has coddled kids to feel ‘entitled’ and so they think they deserve the best jobs.
so, kiddies...how is that Obama thing workin’ out for ya?
If you were a serf in medieval Europe and managed to somehow live to 77 or 80, I suspect you had it better
Ou Yeah I forgot about LAMM. Sorry about that they are so much alike it is hard to differentiate
Wee for me since old age and treachery is all I got, pretty much everyone is better looking
lets just kill em all..../s
Totally backasswards from my experience with the a**hat land line old phone guys, the ones who can’t do fiber.
First old fart came out and told me I had a near short looking into my house. I already said in my T/S complaint I didn’t want those losers in my house. He said the it was about 20 ohms. I asked him give me an actual number, it was 600 ohms, aka a phone.
He found an intermittent short down the block caused by bad wiring. WRONG!
Second Dbag found another short up the line, again, problem not fixed.
Third (younger) guy actually fixed the problem, he re-connected me at the “feed” or whatever they call the distribution box, got me off the bad circuit that was causing the problem.
I’m not crazy about the young workers but there are too many old folks who can’t find their ass with both hands. Worked around too many not to tell the truth.
Some people get old and wise, others just get old.
You can quote me on that.
And three calls to the phone company to get a lousy twisted pair fixed? How lame are they?
Amen.
And due to their idiotic voting records, the Millennials / Gen Y have proven themselves to have been misnamed. They really ought to be known as Generation Chump. After all, they are The One's chumps - ultimately they will be the ones stuck with paying the long term bills for transferring what would have been their wealth to the parasite classes as a form of stealth reparations. And they actually voted for this. Heh. It is to laugh ....
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
At any rate, that clerk is the type of young Generation.com moron who's being displaced by older folks today, for those very reasons and more. Those with the presence of mind to realize how they've screwed up will doubtlessly blame their parents, their teachers, global warming and George Bush for their predicament, rather than being responsible and correcting their mistake(s).
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Sorry for your inconvenience. It must have gotten you wired.
Under socialism, the employment pie is infinite. However the amount of funds available to the workers is finite and decreasing. It's up to the government to parcel out the funds.
This is actually more like communism. Under ideal socialism, everyone would produce to their capability and everyone lives happily ever after.
L.J.
BUMP!
Not really. Productivity growth is generally negative, so each year it costs more in real terms to employ the same amount of people. Thats why places like Spain and Greece have 23 % official unemployment, and why the Soviet Union, which claimed full employment, actually had over 25 % unemployment (permanent unemployment insurance doled out to people doing no work).
Most employers would rather hire an elderly person because ——work ethic! Too many young people are undependable and lazy.
GenX people are in their 30s and 40s. You're thinking of Gen Y and Gen XBox.
For the life of me I can't understand this. People working literally till the day they die? Sheesh, get a hobby!
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