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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new. It’s why the adea was enacted.  My father was a professional with over 30 years at a company in the late 80s—they pushed out all the people over 55 at the site in my hometown by telling them they had to take a RIf package or they would be moved to an incredibly remote location.      I knew so many people with fathers laid off or who had to relocate.  They replaced my father with a guy in his 20s who did not know how to do the work at all.
Incidentally, that company then started to spiral downwards and is a shadow of its former self.  [/quote]

Let me guess - GE. [/quote]

Actually no, but I think it was sort of the story of the 80s/early 90s—all those great post-war companies got sold a bill of goods by consultants/MBAs telling them they needed to cut back and outsource.  By the time they looked up, they realized they’d stripped the company down to nothing and had lost what made them great.  My dad’s company used to make just about everything America needed to enter the modern world, and now I think they make nothing. [/quote]

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