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15 years! That is all the modern corporate world gives to College Educated Professionals in the work world now days.
Recent College Graduates without experience have an almost impossible time getting a professional job at the large employer I work at now days. So if you are under 25 it is almost impossible to get into my employer, one of the leading employers in the Washington DC area.
Older workers over the advanced age of 40 are being pushed out. They are viewed as too expensive for health insurance, too set in their ways, too expensive for wages, low energy, and not technically competent. The hip younger staff laugh at them behind their back.
When we plan for layoffs and reorganizations the managers are too smart to say they are going to lay someone off because they are too old, but instead they will use buzz words like: WE NEED PEOPLE WHO HAVE: Young ideas, fresh perspective, are active, excited, full of energy, etc. Translation: we want younger workers with 3-7 years of experience in most of our jobs.
If someone over 40 applies for an opening they face the same issues as the older workers trying to hold on to their jobs described above. They are viewed as out of touch and too expensive and set in their ways.
The final result is 80% of our staff is 25-40 years old.
Last edited by Workaholic?; 02-03-2012 at 05:33 AM..
*YAWN*...another thread comparing what your company does to the rest of the world. Isn't there a limit on this inanity. For every one example you give 5 others can give you the opposite. Why are you so hell bent on forcing your company's rules and politics down people's throats like it's gospel. It's time for you to come out from behind that cubicle and see the rest of the world.
My own brother is 50 and just took a new job with another fortune 500 company two weeks ago. My younger brother works for one as well and hates it and doesn't want to work at all. You do the math.
I do work for a number of corporations across the country and very few of them have ever even met me, know my gender, or how old I am. The work speaks for itself and is what other people pass on to others for my services.
While my most direct experience is where I work, I have mentioned this to friends and relatives and they to have noticed a trend away from older workers (over forty) at their workplace too. But maybe this is not true everywhere, just asking!
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Originally Posted by Thursday007
*YAWN*...another thread comparing what your company does to the rest of the world. Isn't there a limit on this inanity. For every one example you give 5 others can give you the opposite. Why are you so hell bent on forcing your company's rules and politics down people's throats like it's gospel. It's time for you to come out from behind that cubicle and see the rest of the world.
My own brother is 50 and just took a new job with another fortune 500 company two weeks ago. My younger brother works for one as well and hates it and doesn't want to work at all. You do the math.
I do work for a number of corporations across the country and very few of them have ever even met me, know my gender, or how old I am. The work speaks for itself and is what other people pass on to others for my services.
While my most direct experience is where I work, I have mentioned this to friends and relatives and they to have noticed a trend away from older workers (over forty) at their workplace too. But maybe this is not true everywhere, just asking!
You weren't asking, you never do. There is nothing but a bunch of hard statements you make. Don't back peddle now.
Ours run the range of 18-70+. I don't have any idea what the average is. Most of the people I deal with are in management and are in their 40s and 50s.
I don't think he even has a job, just huddles over his home computer every day thinking up new threads.
I think the common theme that is arising is that he hates older workers and the unemployed.
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