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As a temp I get to see alot of different workplaces. One thing that seems to be quite common in every place I work is a very young work place. Being just over 50 years old, I seem to be always the oldest worker in the office. It makes it hard to have much in common with the people I work around. It seems like everyone who is hired is 25-40. I do not see anyone my age ever being hired unless it is for a very senior management position.
Where are the baby boomers in today's workplace? I see a few but not many! Have they been put out to pasture?
As a temp I get to see alot of different workplaces. One thing that seems to be quite common in every place I work is a very young work place. Being just over 50 years old, I seem to be always the oldest worker in the office. It makes it hard to have much in common with the people I work around. It seems like everyone who is hired is 25-40. I do not see anyone my age ever being hired unless it is for a very senior management position.
Where are the baby boomers in today's workplace? I see a few but not many! Have they been put out to pasture?
There are only a few boomers where I work; most of my colleagues seem to be under the age of 45 but over 30. The company I work for doesn't seem to like to hire kids either. I'm 32 and I'm the youngest in my group.
Not in my office, but in getting an interview and getting hired, DEFINITELY! They only want the cheap young labor because the companies are bottom feeders. I had to leave dates off my resume for sure.
I finally got into a good company that does not do this.
As a temp I get to see alot of different workplaces. One thing that seems to be quite common in every place I work is a very young work place. Being just over 50 years old, I seem to be always the oldest worker in the office. It makes it hard to have much in common with the people I work around. It seems like everyone who is hired is 25-40. I do not see anyone my age ever being hired unless it is for a very senior management position.
Where are the baby boomers in today's workplace? I see a few but not many! Have they been put out to pasture?
great post, you got rep.
i have seen this scenario 2 times.
once when i was a temp at 45 years old returning to the work force. and once when i was about to retire and they were replacing us leaving with young people, new hires. in both cases the young people were 20 years old and very very fast. it scared me pretty bad when i was a temp because i was new and they were so very fast.
its was not so scary at 58 on my way out the door as i had years of experience to offset their speed advantage. i also found the young lacked people skills.
to answer your question where are baby boomers, retiring early in droves.
my personal unsolicted opinion as to effect is offices are hurting badly for our skills and demeanor. life goes on but the streets offices and environment are a lot more brutal. by by pot luck and birthday cake. nice has been replaced with ice.
the sky in cryin
(i am probably being a bit dramatic here but tryin to make a point forgive the old guy stuff)
I don't believe I have personally. I am 52 and work as a receptionist. I have had several receptionist jobs and you might think that employers would be interested only in hiring cute young girls to work in this position. Maybe some do. But I have not seemed to have that much difficulty finding a job. So if I've experienced it, it was certainly not universal.
My workplace mostly discriminates against the overweight and those without a bachelor's degree. I see the age discrimination to an extent, but if a 22 year old overweight person and a 50 year old slender person applied for the same job, the 50 year old would be hired.
I was once between jobs and I went to a headhunting agency in town. It was one of those big shot places in a glass castle type of building.
I was put in a large conference room with a woman, maybe 40 to 45 years.
She had on a suit and looked at me and said "Your resume looks too well-seasoned"
I said, "What?"
She said, "Welll, it makes you look old."
I said, "Isn't that discriminatory?"
She said, "Oh, employers want younger workers."
I said, "I agree, because they want to pay less."
She said, "No, because younger workers are better workers than older workers."
I wished I had had a tape recorder.
I said, "So you generalize like that about everyone/"
She said, "No,but take all the dates off your resume."
I said,'"When I fill out an application, they will want dates to verify employment"
She said, "I can't get you a job, if you have dates going back past 10 years."
I never met such a hostile person. I said, "This isn't for me."
And I left and on the way out, I saw that they were a minority recruiting firm.
Definitely. I've even been accused of being a sex offender from another state so the firm could avoid having an interview. 'Well, you look alike, same last name, born the same year.... If you can prove you're not this guy...' I think that's where bad names for women come from.
And my resume shows only ten years of currently applicable work experience. At the bottom it includes a very short reference to 25 additional years... 'other industry stuff'.
If they act confused in an interview I ask if they read the whole thing... 'see bottom'.
I was once between jobs and I went to a headhunting agency in town. It was one of those big shot places in a glass castle type of building.
I was put in a large conference room with a woman, maybe 40 to 45 years.
She had on a suit and looked at me and said "Your resume looks too well-seasoned"
I said, "What?"
She said, "Welll, it makes you look old."
I said, "Isn't that discriminatory?"
She said, "Oh, employers want younger workers."
I said, "I agree, because they want to pay less."
She said, "No, because younger workers are better workers than older workers."
I wished I had had a tape recorder.
I said, "So you generalize like that about everyone/"
She said, "No,but take all the dates off your resume."
I said,'"When I fill out an application, they will want dates to verify employment"
She said, "I can't get you a job, if you have dates going back past 10 years."
I never met such a hostile person. I said, "This isn't for me."
And I left and on the way out, I saw that they were a minority recruiting firm.
That headhunter was wrong about younger workers being better workers, on a whole that is. There is a manager in my department who says, "Give me a worker who has family responsibilities and debt. Now that's a good worker". I agree. Kids right out of college and still living at home or have a one bedroom apartment have no idea what financial responsibilites and debt are. An older worker who has a couple of car notes and a mortgage understands that he must "work or not eat". There's usually no running to mom's house for a meal or a handout when things get tight.
I have faced age discrimnation, but nothing too bad.
I was working for a radio station where I was the youngest one, at 22 years old. Except for me and one other person, the 8 other people in our office were 50 plus... with 3 of them being 60 plus.
The eldest of the two people, our Chief Engineer and our General Sales Manager didnt like me much because "I was a young whipper snapper not from the area tryin to make waves"
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