Posted on 07/31/2020 3:10:14 PM PDT by rintintin
Uh-oh. Those of us who remember when ’80s music was new had better start bracing ourselves for those big-box-store greeter jobs earlier than we expected.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that the jobs market is probably heading for a massive, rolling shakeout. And that means plenty of employers may be using the cover of COVID-19 to get rid of lots of expensive older workers.
Age discrimination in the jobs market, which is supposedly illegal, goes up in recessions. Some employers take the opportunity to ax experienced workers who are paid a reasonable wage, and replace them with cheap, desperate kids who will put up with anything.
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we’ll just go bankrupt “
as Trump told the South Carolina debate audience in 2016, Republicans have to get over opposing Social Security.
he could have added, funny that you never hear these worries about “going bankrupt” when the subject is endless wars in the Middle East. For the gop establishment, we don’t have money for American seniors, but there’s no limit to what we can spend on Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
I was born at the end of the boom myself. What's ironic is that Millennials and Gen-Z complain about "Boomers," but they actually have far more in common with the older Boomers, those in the 1960's who protested in their teens and 20's.
Younger boomers weren't big on protesting. Maybe we were so different because we came of age after the draft was ended. We wanted our country to be strong, and many of us voted for Reagan.
Bottom line is that each person has to take care of themselves. The days of a corporation taking care of you is long gone. My father in law was a lifer with Dupont. They really took care of him and is still taking care of his widow.
i’m a young gen-x’er born in ‘78. I have more in common with you than I do millennials and you have more in common with me than you do old Boomers. I grew up pre-internet and post vietnam... sounds like you did too for the most part.
I wish you the best. Experience, you’ll never get anywhere without it. Don’t forget that there isn’t much of anything someone has not been though already in some form at least similar to what you face. Some are still around and willing to offer benefit of what they have learned if only you are smart enough to realize how it applies to a new twist on the old theme.
Someday, perhaps already, you’ll learn a hard lesson and think this surely has happened before and I wish someone had written it down so I could have learned it. Maybe they did but you have to be ready to learn it, the lesson has to have context and it takes time to learn. Keep your eyes and ears open of course.
They say that if history does not repeat at least it rhymes.
I graduated into a recession as well. The line of work I planned for in civil works was dead at the time so I had to find another pathway. I think it worked out OK but not without struggles, doubts and lots of fears. None of these really ever go away.
Hysterical much?
I think you’re right. Late boomers and Xers are different from each other, but we have more in common with each other than with the other age groups.
The only sex I have is in the normal manner and with the woman I married. The only drugs I take is the low cost legal kind.
Life expectancy in 1940:
Men: ~61
Women:~65
Yep, let’s raise the age to ~78, Today’s Life Expectancy...
Life expectancy in 1940:
Men: ~61
Women:~65
Yep, let’s raise the age to ~78, Today’s Life Expectancy...””
A huge percentage of seniors rely on Soc Security as main income source. That means 1) your idea won’t happen because politically impossible; 2) if it did happen it would throw millions into poverty; 3 ) for the GOAp to push such ideas is political suicide, as Trump himself famously said in the 2016 debates - when he said the Repubs had to stop opposing Social Security:
As for the supposed “unaffordability” of Social Security, when the GOP (other than Trump) starts talking about the price tag of the endless wars halfway around the world that they love, I’ll listen to the claim we can’t afford to help seniors here at home
In retrospect drafting kids to send them to Viretnsm was IDIOTIC. Hard to believe conservatives were all-in on that stupidity. Not that supporting the South Vietnamese was wrong, but compelling young Americans to go and fight definitely was.
Many of those kids are unreliable, don’t show up, lie on their resumes, steal and do a half-assed job, and are felons; they have little to no work ethic, working only long enough to be eligible for unemployment.
I know I do. Give me an older adult, with a decent work history, able to pass a background check, drug screen, and is politically right leaning.
How do I check their politics? Skim their social media.
“Many employers now prefer the older job candidates who are able.”
My husband saw that before he retired. The “kids” were such lazy losers the company (defense) was courting retired ex employees who had a great work ethic and better education.
Once when DH was interviewing a recent PhD graduate, the whiny kid asked him, “Do I really have to work 40 hours a week?” DH said, “If you’re LUCKY you’ll only have to work 40 hours a week.” Sheesh.
I heard that many conservatives did oppose sending Americans to Vietnam...? I don’t know... Anyway...
People tend to think of older boomers as hippies. Sometimes we forget that older boomers were the ones sent to Vietnam, and many of them didn’t even wait to be drafted - they enlisted. They were the young men being spit on and heckled when they returned from war.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that the Antifa types don’t represent all of the younger generation, either. Wondering how many of the police officers and federal agents being attacked are “millennials.”
“the old what about the trillions we spent in Iraq argument”
you mean the trillions we wasted. and it’s not in the past tense. we’re still there, even though the Iraq govt asked us to leave. funny that few “fiscal conservatives” have anything to say about this ongoing shoveling of US tax dollars into foreign occupation and “nation building”. they seem to only be concerned about spending money on Americans in America
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