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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your sister was "forced" to retire...she screwed up or was just getting too slow, and she was given the option to retire so she could save face.   Unfortunately she wasn't ready financially to retire, so she still needs income.   She's embarrassed, and if she tells people she has another full time job after "retiring" they will ask why she didn't just stick with her old job and she'll have to explain whatever it was that happened (the screw up.)[/quote]

This..it doesn't ev n have to be a "screw up."

One of my older friends worked for a small company for 20 years; she loved her job and needed to keep working until 70, but once people turned 60 and their health insurance costs started to go up, the manager would start harassing the older employee to get them to retire faster. She lasted longer than most, to Medicare age but had to find another job after "retirement." But she didn't care who she bad mouthed her old company to, they did deserve it. [/quote]

Older employees are often forced out constructively for cost savings. They are usually earning on the top end of their brackets, they have earned the top end of vacation time and are tapped out on tenure based rewards (to the expense of the employer). Also, because they’re not usually interested in further advancement or changes in position, they block the mobility of other younger employees.

But, that’s something for the Jobs Forum. [/quote]

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