Is age respected anywhere in the world anymore?

dseag2 said:
I chose not to post this earlier, but based on your post I will share it.

My company, with over 3000 employees, laid off 50% of its' employees when Covid hit. Our CEO had stood up in an executive meeting a few years before and told us he knew our ages and that we should be creating a "succession plan". I always had, hiring younger workers that were talented and could move up within the company.

I was let go at 63 y/o, with plenty of energy and lots experience and relationships within my industry. Most who were let go were over 60. Granted, we had the the longer tenure and higher salaries, but we also had the most experience. I had one employee who is a young 67 and who has been called back for numerous contracts because she is the only one who has a clue about her particular area. My younger successor is struggling to keep it together, but I wish him the best.

I was fortunate enough to be able to retire and no longer deal with the stigma Corporate America places on older workers.
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just because they're younger doesn't mean they can handle the job. plus the younger ones don't always show up either.
 

My mom beat it into me and my siblings that above all else show your respect for all elders all the time. Well I recall that didn't work out too well in a "Safeway" supermarket in Bed/Stuy when a man deferred his spot in line to an elder and got the living snot beat out of him by some young folk further back in line. Not all shoppers are tolerant of such especially when anybody behind them gets a pass. Don't know if this rather minor blurb was fact or fiction but if one knows the hood like me that seemed par for the course.
 
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I think it still exisit , but not nearly like it was back in the day.
 

I don't get it. My experience with younger kids is as normal as it is with all ages. Most are polite, some are a little self-absorbed...but that is true with all ages. This focus on discrimination of old people is kind of like gaslighting...think about it enough and then exaggerate the "problem" and you get the results. Not a good idea...IMHO.
 
Young people help my husband all the time. I went to a restaurant with him a week or so ago, and the young hostess hustled outside to help him by holding the doors open. Every time he goes out, he gets treated super well by the younger folks. People are always nice to me, too, but I don't think it is because I am old -- it's just that way in a small town.
 
WheatenLover said:
Young people help my husband all the time. I went to a restaurant with him a week or so ago, and the young hostess hustled outside to help him by holding the doors open. Every time he goes out, he gets treated super well by the younger folks. People are always nice to me, too, but I don't think it is because I am old -- it's just that way in a small town.
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ha!! Not in THIS small town.... :unsure:
 
On the flip side.. I was third or fourth back in the grocery checkout line when an older guy breezed by me with some small items muttering something about being in a hurry. He walked up to the front of the line where two other older folks that were having their groceries rang up and I thought he must be with them.

Nope, he waited till the checker was done with the couple ahead of him, then paid for his items and off he went. This was in a large store with other checkers and had self check-out.

I just kind of took the whole thing in watching him head out the door thinking, this guy got no class.. 🤨
 

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