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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:20 PM Original message |
Why are "older workers" being CONSISTENTLY 'shut out'? |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'd like an answer to that too being 50 and unemployed |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. late fifties and unemployed |
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CurtEastPoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 08:17 AM Response to Reply #7 |
23. 59.5 and unemployed here, also. Can't prove age discrim but I know it's there. n/t |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. Look at who's doing the interviewing |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
27. This is true, check out any fast food joint. |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe because we can't spell? |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I am a spelling/grammar nazi myself. |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 09:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. And thanks for not getting mad. |
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Another Bill C. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. Too true. |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. I was hired at 49 -- by a 28 year old. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. We're no longer "pretty" to look at. |
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wildflowergardener (863 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Reason? |
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Lisa0825 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. I guess the companies I have worked for have been aberrations. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. we cost to much.... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. Because the odds are that we will |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
13. Because employers have a pile of people much younger |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. China and India, - no benefits, no legal protections, no problems |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
15. It used to be |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-05-09 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. I have been wondering that too... |
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FatDave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 03:06 AM Response to Original message |
17. Shit, I can't find work at 39. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
18. Ant a lot of DU is perfectly fine with fucking us over in health care too |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 07:16 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Nah, just put us on the ice floe.. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. They'd better hurry up then, what with global warming and all n/t |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Still get ice floes in the winter.. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
34. Yes, I'm sick of "just be patient." nt |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 07:29 AM Response to Original message |
21. Well, I am 70 and working full-time. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
22. Perceptions... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
26. It's over 40 in CA, so my dtr in North Hollywood tells me. nt |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Yep, I hear that a lot. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
29. Because those of us in our thirities (and twenties) are seen as expendable, not costing as much, and |
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Stevenmarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
30. Because employers smell defeat |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
31. Several reasons |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
32. K&R nt |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
33. Yes. Why pay healthcare for a 50+ when you can get a 35 yr. old? |
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