DON KOHLBAUER / Union-Tribune
At 82, Walter Spain still reports to work several times a week at Home Depot in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Spain thinks employers tend to take a dim view of older workers, overlooking their value.
At 82, Walter Spain still reports to work several times a week at Home Depot in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Spain thinks employers tend to take a dim view of older workers, overlooking their value.
Do you mean my generation's "skill" at bonehead political posturing, or our "knowledge" that every form of technology more advanced than windmills and chicken manure would be too dangerous to ever contemplate? Now that we're in the process of being replaced by Indian doctors and Chinese nuclear engineers, our children can finally look forward to the day when the $4 gas they're paying for, and the Boomer science policy that was reponsible for it, will be a memory as faded as the pictures of Woodstock that we bequeathed to them. Good riddance to us!
Don't die Woodstock! On the other hand, good riddance to bad rubbish!
And don't let the casket lid hit you on the way out.
I do not expect the Boomer Generation to go gently in to that good night. They may not just "move aside" when their time comes, the retirement of the prior generations is probably not for them.
For good and ill, the Boomers will continue to make their mark on society.
The company wants to burry their head in the sand but that's OK, I'll have my 401K and my lump-sum pension to keep me warm. {;o)~
And without all the knowledge we will lose when all these baby boomer middle managers (what exactly they manage is beyond me, but I'm suuurrre it's important) retire....
And who can deny we won't all suffer when there are fewer Human Resources personal, corporate motivational speakers and diversity trainers..
How in the world are American businesses going to compete in the world with out all of those people
But the point is moot, because without the large number of baby boomer nannies out there, passing laws like banning smoking in bars and requiring helmets while riding a bicycle and doing such enlightening studies like how eating too many french fries can cause health problems, none of us are going to be able to take care of ourselves and were all going to die anyhow.
many offshoring arrangements involve the fired US employee having to train their offshore replacements, under threat of losing exit pay and whatever severance and exit benefits they are entitled to.
There is a lot of upside to it. I can't wait for the hippies, yippies, 1960s radicals and other scum to be gone from my workplace. Of course, I hope their contemporaries who are real Americans hang out until they are in their 80s! LOL!