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Originally Posted by Vision67
As an old white guy, apply for a job as a server at Hooters or Victoria's Secret and see how far you get.  |
No old white guy is going to apply for those types jobs.
Get real.
They are being denied interviews or jobs for jobs they QUALIFY for. Or for jobs like the poster who said CVS would not give him a chance that "any idiot can do ".
There are reoorts,that millenials are saving money and converse reports that millenials have to choose between: going to college, or buying a house or having kids, they can't support all three.
The only way the young discriminatory ones will learn is when THEY get old, and cannot find a job due to the fact they are "to old".
You can't discriminate against hiring the handicapped, but as soon as they see I have a cane, I get disincluded for many jobs in qualified for, and CAN DO. I have a bad knee, im NOT a,weakling. All applications state that "reasonable accommodations will be made for a handicapped individual", yet I don't even get past the preliminary intake "interview" by some young kid who won't look at my application again.
So much for "reasonable accommodations ". If I do click "disabled " I'm not even going to get an interview.
I have a good attendance record, if I need to be out ill, I always have a Drs note in hand , often work through being I'll, and have been late only once In a year AT my current job, and that was due to being frozen out of my vehicle after an ice storm, and I called an hour before I was due there to tell the manager I might be late. It only takes me 10-15 min to get to work. Later when the manager was due in, he called to say HE was frozen out of his vehicle, too. He necer did show up that day.
He's late 20s and shows up late to work often, having been out late drinking. Sometimes he shows up hung over and goes home early to sleep it off. He sits in his office and plays games or watches videos on his phone half the day. I don't. Only when the owner shows up dies he "look alive".
One of my co-workers is very young, and calls off simply because she "doesn't have a babysitter". You'd thibk tgat would be a priority.
I have a good work ethic. I question some young people's work ethic . I actually got the jib because the manager complained THAT OTHER young ones he hired were doing just what he does, and yet he does it. He values his older worker, and gee, if it ain't so, I'm the oldest worker there at 54. Only one other is 6 months younger, at 54, but I'll be 55 in a few months, she won't until next year. She also has a good work ethic like me, and always had drs note for illness, or works through illness too.
I had double hernia surgery in Jan, and was only out for a week.
I suppose I should feel lucky to have a job at all. Around here, 60% of workers are 50 or older, so the young population is going to hard pressed to totally discount us. Most of the older workers THOUGHT they had a pension until the companies they worked for while young went out of business when manufacturing left the area. So they HAVE to work, at something, somewhere. Even if it's a job that "any idiot" can do.
The 40- some thibngs are already worried that when they reach 50, they will be out of a job. ANY job.
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