I feel sorry for people in this situation but I also wonder how many of them contribute to the current situation - after all, this guy is the tail end of the boomers. They spent their working life in financial security at the same company, and have a retirement plan and possibly a pension.
How many times did they vote to protect workers? How many times did they band together with coworkers who just wanted the same benefits? Etc.
They spent their working life in financial security at the same company, and have a retirement plan and possibly a pension.
You assume a lot about People, Companies, Safety-nets and Opportunity. If he’s merely 60, he will have been working only 5 years until the 1985 swing toward Office Space-style cubes and soulless exploitation, and you may not understand the work environment from then on as being not conducive to saving. The cusp boomers aren’t all princes like the children of the Greatest Gen, and may only own a home if it’s been willed to them (and not shared with 4 siblings).
I can tell you from working in a well-established and actually supportive dot-com - a nice place to work, actually - that the people who are 60 now will not have been financially set with a trajectory back then, as they were being replaced by off-shored labour while management was discovering why labour can’t just be ditched wholesale for that particular stupid idea. They may have retirement, but won’t be nearly as well-set as the unionized workers back then – and didn’t realize the gamble they were taking.
The disdain toward workers just based on age was one of the themes emerging from the post-dot-com lay-offs, where we got rid of the most expensive workers who happened to be older, more experienced, mentor- or writer-types, who were in positions of building advancement and training programmes for juniors to become good seniors just as part of their job and group membership. And now we’re several generations of Lost Boy coders who weren’t taught why we code properly, why we test, why we don’t grab things wildly from the wild west internet, and all the other things that were codified in docs like iso27002 but we just knew back then from mentorship and patient individualized instruction by seniors.
Fun fact: retirement (at least in the US) requires not only that future generations are dumbed down enough to buy into the scam of paying more for the same grift, consecutively, but also that the tired-ass façade is faithfully upheld every single day, in perpetuity. 🤢
I feel sorry for people in this situation but I also wonder how many of them contribute to the current situation - after all, this guy is the tail end of the boomers. They spent their working life in financial security at the same company, and have a retirement plan and possibly a pension.
How many times did they vote to protect workers? How many times did they band together with coworkers who just wanted the same benefits? Etc.
You assume a lot about People, Companies, Safety-nets and Opportunity. If he’s merely 60, he will have been working only 5 years until the 1985 swing toward Office Space-style cubes and soulless exploitation, and you may not understand the work environment from then on as being not conducive to saving. The cusp boomers aren’t all princes like the children of the Greatest Gen, and may only own a home if it’s been willed to them (and not shared with 4 siblings).
I can tell you from working in a well-established and actually supportive dot-com - a nice place to work, actually - that the people who are 60 now will not have been financially set with a trajectory back then, as they were being replaced by off-shored labour while management was discovering why labour can’t just be ditched wholesale for that particular stupid idea. They may have retirement, but won’t be nearly as well-set as the unionized workers back then – and didn’t realize the gamble they were taking.
The disdain toward workers just based on age was one of the themes emerging from the post-dot-com lay-offs, where we got rid of the most expensive workers who happened to be older, more experienced, mentor- or writer-types, who were in positions of building advancement and training programmes for juniors to become good seniors just as part of their job and group membership. And now we’re several generations of Lost Boy coders who weren’t taught why we code properly, why we test, why we don’t grab things wildly from the wild west internet, and all the other things that were codified in docs like iso27002 but we just knew back then from mentorship and patient individualized instruction by seniors.
Fun fact: retirement (at least in the US) requires not only that future generations are dumbed down enough to buy into the scam of paying more for the same grift, consecutively, but also that the tired-ass façade is faithfully upheld every single day, in perpetuity. 🤢