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I've never understood why employers want rid of older people with experience in favour of younger, inexperienced staff.

:::speculating:::

Well...besides being more decorative, they tend to be cheaper (at least on paper) and more easily dominated. Also, it's easier to "mold" them to corporate specs, they generally have fewer chronic health problems, and the market is flooded with them. The days of mutual employee/employer loyalty are pretty much gone, because the Corporation is a faceless collective, usually interested mainly in quarterly reports and stockholders...not in the people who work for them.

One management tactic in many retail companies is to start pressuring older employees just before their pensions become vested. If a worker isn't mid-or-upper management by the time s/he is 50, s/he often falls into the deadwood category. Hour cuts, undesirable shifts, and "grunt-work" soon follow.

Don't misunderstand me. Young people need jobs, too. But the structure of many businesses has changed radically over the past fifty years or so, and employees are more disposable. Us geezers are very often at the bottom of the food chain now. :lol

Mac