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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][size=7] [/size][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cost. Perception is experienced people want more money than young people. [/quote]

+1. If older people are willing to accept a starting salary, then they will be hired more easily.[/quote]

Untrue. Younger workers are afraid older workers will take their jobs and refuse to hire them. Younger workers grew up with little exposure to people outside their age cohort. So, they can’t see der workers as anything but their parents or parents’ friends instead of seeing them as colleagues. I’ve seen this dynamic become more and more prevalent over time. They are angry if a person in their 60s/70s who still needs to work. This week I saw that play out on LinkedIn. It was awful. This 70yo shared his experience finding job at visage after a layoff. He gave people encouragement — and they took him down like a pack of wolves. It was awful.[/quote]

Millenials have had a blessed job market since GFC, enormous stock market and crypto wealth.  They figure if you are 60 and didn’t make a killing and living on easy street, you are an idiot or have a drug problem. [/quote]

They could not be more wrong. How insulting. For all their complaining, many o Millenials with that attitude started with money from mommy and daddy who share phone plans and streaming services with adult (often married) children.[/quote]

I wish. That sounds more like the gen xers who are raising crappy gen zers[/quote]

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