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Vegas doesn’t want or need homeless people, they get bus tickets straight to SF of the moderate temperature West Coast city of their choice (like my hometown of Portland or even my best friends city of Eugene). Lots of great homes for them with tons of handouts in those cities! Lol
Southern Nevada is actually the smallest of all the metro areas that are in the top ten regarding number of homeless, and it leads the nation in homeless youth. You make it sound like people come there to be homeless, most already lived there. Per statistics, 86% of low income residents in Vegas pay over 50% of their income in rent, a sure recipe for homelessness.
Jun 15, 2018 (3BL Media via COMTEX) -- SOURCE:Las Vegas Sands
"On any given night, nearly 6,500 people are homeless in Southern Nevada, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Nevada ranks eighth in the nation for the rate of homeless persons - the smallest region among the metropolitan areas ranking in the top 10 for homelessness."
Why is a 60yo employee any more expensive - in any regulated/legislated sense - than a 25yo?
Premiums for health insurance easily run 10K-20K a year for them. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the "Cadillac tax" hits at 40% of premiums on top of that.
So employers are told by the ACA that they should not hire older workers because they'll be punished by higher taxes.
Premiums for health insurance easily run 10K-20K a year for them. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the "Cadillac tax" hits at 40% of premiums on top of that.
So employers are told by the ACA that they should not hire older workers because they'll be punished by higher taxes.
ACA = legalized age discrimination.
It has nothing to do with the ACA. Employers don’t want to pay for older people’s health insurance because the insurance companies charge more for older people. They charge more for older people before the ACA too. The ACA is actually the only chance many older people have to get insurance. My brother had to stop working at 62, he has three more years for Medicare. If it was not for the ACA he would not have insurance right now.
If the health care plan the White House wanted to pass two years ago went through, it would have it been even worse. That bill allowed insurers to charge even more to older people, instead of three times more it raised the threshold to five times more.
I'm guessing this was your personality always, not just now. I am really good at customer service and very patient, not likely to change (I'm 57 now). I would never be snotty to a customer. My brother on the other hand is exactly like you. However he was the same at 20, sarcastic and impatient. He did fine as an autom mechanic behind the scenes, but he could never have moved up to management, he'd have gotten fired the first day! It isn't about age.
Not really. I worked in two banks for a total of 16+ years and I never had a problem with how I addressed the customers. But I defy you to work at a minimum wage job and not start feeling like most customers are a PITA.
See, most people (including a lot on this forum) think minimum wage jobs are easy and the workers are trained monkeys, so the workers get treated like that. It's part of how America thinks people are defined by their jobs. I was called a b***h at least once per shift and usually oftener just for doing my job. Wait on those kinds of customers for a couple weeks. Then I guarantee you'll run out of f**ks to give and start being as smart mouth and snotty as anyone else who has to work with the public.
The only difference is, I didn't have to be nice to the customers once they started to swear and be aggressive. I could kick their butts out of the store and no one cared if they ever came back again. Unfortunately, most of them did, although they were a bit more civilized if we let them back in.
Don't get me wrong. We had tons of wonderful customers too. One of them gave me a Christmas card with a $100 bill in it. That was almost 30 years ago and I still have that card. I take it out every Christmas and set it up and hope that customer is doing well over the holidays.
The reason I'm saying it's related to age is because older people know they don't have to put up with the nonsense and idiocy that customers bring in the door anymore. If a customer is standing there and swearing at you for not doing something you aren't allowed to do and your manager won't step up and toss his butt out, and you don't need the job, then you're going to tell that customer off (and probably the manager too) and find another job. Older people know life's too short to put up with that crap.
Besides, holding it all in will just give you ulcers and who needs to start an ulcer at the age of 60 or so?
Not really. I worked in two banks for a total of 16+ years and I never had a problem with how I addressed the customers. But I defy you to work at a minimum wage job and not start feeling like most customers are a PITA.
See, most people (including a lot on this forum) think minimum wage jobs are easy and the workers are trained monkeys, so the workers get treated like that. It's part of how America thinks people are defined by their jobs. I was called a b***h at least once per shift and usually oftener just for doing my job. Wait on those kinds of customers for a couple weeks. Then I guarantee you'll run out of f**ks to give and start being as smart mouth and snotty as anyone else who has to work with the public.
The only difference is, I didn't have to be nice to the customers once they started to swear and be aggressive. I could kick their butts out of the store and no one cared if they ever came back again. Unfortunately, most of them did, although they were a bit more civilized if we let them back in.
Don't get me wrong. We had tons of wonderful customers too. One of them gave me a Christmas card with a $100 bill in it. That was almost 30 years ago and I still have that card. I take it out every Christmas and set it up and hope that customer is doing well over the holidays.
The reason I'm saying it's related to age is because older people know they don't have to put up with the nonsense and idiocy that customers bring in the door anymore. If a customer is standing there and swearing at you for not doing something you aren't allowed to do and your manager won't step up and toss his butt out, and you don't need the job, then you're going to tell that customer off (and probably the manager too) and find another job. Older people know life's too short to put up with that crap.
Besides, holding it all in will just give you ulcers and who needs to start an ulcer at the age of 60 or so?
I think the opposite is true. That older worker who needs a job is going to be a much better worker, because it harder to get a job when you’re older. On the other hand a 17-year-old kid quit easily with no consequences because he most likely still lives at home with mom. I also don’t think that older people lose all the social training and manners they were brought up with just because they’re in the workforce and they’re older. I’ve worked plenty of customer service jobs, I know how people are treated. However I have my own standards that don’t depend on how other people treat me. I would not be disrespectful to a customer now and I will not when I’m 70.
What you’re talking about is someone who is working for fun who does not need a salary. That more often applies to kids then older Americans. Most older Americans that you see working are working because they need to. I want to we’re doing it because they simply enjoy it, are not going to take a job they don’t enjoy.
Anyone who doesn’t really need the money is not going to be that good of a worker. That is why when people win the lottery and say they’re going to continue at work, they are really not because their employer may not want them anymore. If you want to say people who don’t really need the salary are less patient with customers I might agree with you. But to say that older people are less patient with customers I disagree with completely.
I think the opposite is true. That older worker who needs a job is going to be a much better worker, because it harder to get a job when you’re older. On the other hand a 17-year-old kid quit easily with no consequences because he most likely still lives at home with mom. I also don’t think that older people lose all the social training and manners they were brought up with just because they’re in the workforce and they’re older. I’ve worked plenty of customer service jobs, I know how people are treated. However I have my own standards that don’t depend on how other people treat me. I would not be disrespectful to a customer now and I will not when I’m 70.
What you’re talking about is someone who is working for fun who does not need a salary. That more often applies to kids then older Americans. Most older Americans that you see working are working because they need to. I want to we’re doing it because they simply enjoy it, are not going to take a job they don’t enjoy.
Anyone who doesn’t really need the money is not going to be that good of a worker. That is why when people win the lottery and say they’re going to continue at work, they are really not because their employer may not want them anymore. If you want to say people who don’t really need the salary are less patient with customers I might agree with you. But to say that older people are less patient with customers I disagree with completely.
OK, I agree with most of that. But try reading notalwaysright.com and see how respectful you'd stay in some of those situations.
I'm off to get breakfast now, so have a wonderful day!
I recently spent 1 month driving around the Mid West. I must admit that I stopped into a McDonalds on the Interstates more than a couple of times. My observation is that McDonalds are already employing an enormous number of older staff. In Australia its almost exclusively 14-19 year olds, but in any of the stores I dropped into, the vast majority were over 50's. In one store somewhere between Des Moines and Minneapolis, I could not see a single employee that looked below 50, in fact most looked well into their 60's.
Their service and friendliness was far better than I was used to.
A 60 year old has more medical needs and we have silly laws that require employers to provide health insurance to employees. Even worse, in most states, employers can't attach risk to the premiums or control who they provide health insurance to. Regulation throws actuarial science out the window.
Actuarial science? Geezus...if an employer sees fit to hire someone they should not be able to choose to not provide insurance to that person because of a pre-existing condition or some risk to the insurer. If they don't want to pay for their insurance then they can hire someone else.
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