Age Discrimination - Day to Day Life Ageism Examples
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- How bad is Age Discrimination? I show how ageism effects older people in day to day life in society and social settings.
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Being laid off / retrenched twice in your late 50s is something that is hard to restart. No one wants to give you a job. In fact apart from a few small companies also owned by older people, I have almost zero chance of getting a job. I've decided to abandon what I have experience in... 35+ years as a programmer and try and follow other creative adventures. So far, it's all fun and interesting to a limited degree, but no income is coming in, so the stress of my future is always eating at my conscious. To be honest, people don't care for my opinion or advice because you're old and you are seen as someone who should just keep quiet and retire. That's easy if your loaded with money. I'm not.
Losing your job the same week that Covid restrictions started was hard. More than hard, I mean impossible to get a job. That's for a person like me in their 60's.
I'm getting to the point financially where If I make a slip-up it's quite possible I'll end up homeless permanently.
I have a lot of things to say, but I don't know who wants to listen and on what topic. Please let me know!
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Kept failing job applications. Coloured my hair and BINGO. Landed a job immediately. Pathetic society.
Intetesting. What colour if I may ask?
Wow that is interesting. My hair hasn't turned grey yet, but losing some wrinkles would definitely help! What type of industry are you working in now?
Right . Like we have to hide our age?😢
Did you color it purple? I put down I was non-binary multi-racial and got an interview.
Honestly this explains the old fellas I'm seeing get around with the purple and pink hair😮 poor dudes, they have to use the battlefield V skin strategy
Appreciate hearing about your journey. I've been a developer for over ten years, am in my early fourties, and have been unable to get a single offer of work in one and half years, despite countless applications and interviews.
The job market is currently apocalyptic with typically hundreds of applicants per job. Add to this the trends of ageism, offshoring and DEI hiring and it's an impossible situation for many.
It has been traumatic coming to terms with the reality that my career is prematurely over. So many years of education and hard work are now just sunk costs. I'm left considering all the other paths I could have taken, and asking why I had to choose a dead end. It's also isolating in a way as nobody in my circle really understands what this experience is like.
Sorry to hear you are having issues at a younger age. I've had a few spells of unemployment when younger, but it was manageable because costs were lower then. In hindsight, if I had to do it again, I would go get a job in the mines, or become a tradie. The amount of money a painter or a a/c mechanic makes is just mind blowing compared to an IT career.
@@AgeBlocked yes I've been considering all options including trades. However that road is not without its own problems. It's also often called a young man's game due to the physical challenge and difficult environments. However I am starting to see hints that many white collar workers are looking to move into physical work. Unfortunately that's likely to lead to more worker oversupply.
Yes I agree. A tradie job would be too much at my age now as well. I've also noticed that the IT industry is slowly turning into a blue collar industry too.
I recently was a retail merchandiser and during our annual meeting we had a rep from a well known skin lotion brand come in to do a speech/presentation. The rep said their age demo was to females under 30 only. All the women in the room who are required to promote their brand in store on the team were women over 50! There were literally crickets in the room after she said that. One woman piped up to vent her disgust that we aren't included in her target age demographic. Needless to say we all colluded to actively do nothing to represent this brand in store. The experience was humiliating. One brand rep managed to sink that whole brand for themselves in under 20 minutes. 😂 well done rep.
Kind of put their foot in their mouth. They should have looked at who they were presenting to for a bit more insight, don't you think?
I just tell staff in restaurants where I want to sit if I don't like where they direct me, you just have to speak up for yourself.
I take my dog with me now, so it's always an open eating place. So everyone's seat is a good seat. They seem to be popular too, since many eateries here now are dog friendly.
There is definataly abuse to older people in western culture. Which is foolish. Not all of them are gaga and they have the most money. So commercially it is not wise to look down on them and it is disrespectful. This should change. Start at schools.
Schools seem to be driven by teachers with their own personal agendas it seems.
@@AgeBlocked I don't think so. Most of them also care for the elderly parents. Education should start at home by parents, then inforced at schools. It will change with time.
In Singapore the government gives incentives to businesses to hire and train older workers. The govt can do a lot if they want to . Ours does in many schemes. Even incentives for children to buy homes near parentsm
The media over here beats the same mantra about youth's finding it hard to get a job, which infuriates me. As a young person can easily find a job. Not a high paid management job, but at least a job to get experience.
@@AgeBlocked youngsters are very choosy these days . That is the problem isnt it?
Too true with regard to restaurant seating. Especially so if you're on your own on a package holiday. You get sent to the Outer Limits. They think all the happy couples don't want to be confronted with the embarrassingly sad-seeming single person. I was happy to do what the heck I wanted on holiday at last ! But about doctors & pharmacists, they've been notorious down the ages for looking down condescendingly on the masses regardless of your age, Dentists as well, until more recently.
All my doctor wanted to do was medicate me, so I switched to a better doctor. She is much better now.
@@AgeBlocked She might be better (self-medicating 🙂 ) perhaps - but are you 🙂 - joking of course
Oh when I mean She i mean the new doctor was much better haha
@@AgeBlocked yes, I got that & my joke was to pretend you meant the other possible meaning. UK SOH thing
How did your generation accommodate older people when you were young?
For my family at least, nursing homes wasn't really a thing back then, so older people lived with the family or in their own house. Also dementia wasn't the big epidemic that it is now.
In my part of the world , Southeast Asia, budinesses actually treat Seniors better. E.g some Singapore supermarkets give senior discounts. I dont qualify yet as you have to be 65. Some restaurants also give 50% off to Seniors which can be 55, 60 or 65 depending on how they define it. There are senior discounts for public transport too.
A lot of big take-away food chains do discount, and same for public transport. Not supermarkets though. That's full price.
@@AgeBlocked here even pharmacies, some as young as 50 so I am eligible too.