artisticsolution wrote:thedoc wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
What an 'honourable' way to make a living--taking people's jobs off them because you deem them to be 'unproductive'. I think the yank term is 'human resources' (corporate wankers and toss-buckets). How the hell do you determine what are 'waste hours' anyway? Destroying staff morale is not productive.
Ahh! the socialist ideal, nothing to do, and all day to do it, and still get paid for it.
Okay....Doc...you have a point...but let me just ask you to consider this...
You are probably enjoying the benefits of social security...a socialist program. Imagine if you did not have such benefits and had to work to make a living, what are the chances you could out perform, at your age, someone in their 20's. Is it fair, in your opinion, to allow employers to cast aside the elderly, because they 'do nothing/or very little' compared to a person half their age? What would happen to the weaker people in our society if there was no such thing as social security? Or is that not your problem?
Social Security is there and I paid in so I'm drawing out, I didn't ask that it be established, perhaps if there were no Social Security system my employers would have provided a better retirement. Younger isn't always better and faster, and usually younger isn't. The only job I had where a younger person might have an advantage is on a hay wagon. When I was in HS I worked on my Uncle's farm, but then my grandfather was sometimes on the hay wagon right beside me, so even there youth is not as much of an advantage. Every other job I had after college was better for having an older more experienced person working. I could certainly produce a drawing faster and better than a younger less experienced person. And when I was working my last job in a machine shop the owner had a younger person operating the turret lathe that I usually ran. One time he made a lot of scrap because he couldn't read a micrometer, then I fixed it and started him again. That job stopped because the owner lost the contract for the parts I was making, there was no more production work for me to do, so I started taking care of my grandchildren. One correction an employer doesn't get rid of an elderly worker because they aren't producing, they are usually earning a lot more than a younger employee, production is usually just as good if not better.
