The sad thing about this story is that the man who wrote it seems like a bit of a lefty (for the US - see his politics links), who wanted to break down ageism and do the decent thing (though it's a bit worrying that people my age are now older candidates) but got disillusioned:
One older candidate (thirty-four) who I interviewed turned out to be a catastrophe with made up stories of employment and perennial conflicts with his boss. A slightly older candidate (just over thirty) whom we took on a short trial didn't turn out well either: competent but very inflexible in her way of doing things with no inclination to learn new things. In the social scene, I've noticed similar traits as well in the different age groups. The people who are inclined to work hard and learn here are the young.
Is it really the case that my generation can't change or should we be whacked with electric cattle prods until we get as flexible as the young? Can we make the young accept that the best thing for them to do is to go all out for economic growth and pay us lot off while accepting low benefits and security themselves?
The trouble is that the young can't accept that the old should have benefits they don't. The French proposed precisely such a two-speed system and got massive protests. But there are lots of us inflexible old ones, and few young people... Maybe there will be a compromise. Also on Uncoy, secrets of IT company pay in Bratislava. Will everything turn up on a blog if you wait long enough? Like monkeys with typewriters...
Source: uncoy.com | la vie viennoise : Ageism in Slovakia: Recruitment
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Perhaps the old(er) see ' working hard 'quite as not the golden nugget that the young feel or trained from wookhood , it actually is .
The olds alledged inflexable feelings are not because they are inflexable , it is because they don't have this madness and virus that infects the young, ie rha rha rha .. 'we are all one super team working together' ( well until they boot you out after a few months, as they did Bear Yogi's mate )
At the end of the day , you work to live , not live to work and whilst the right wing captalist rednecks would have us believe this is the way of a better life ..if fact it is purely to make us all slaves to a system of there invention .
Rather fancy being a shepherd myself in my younger days. Mind you not much call for that on Hackney marshes ;-))
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