I'm sorry to hear that your husband was canned. I would give you the 'get a job' harassment that the rest of the board gives, but I've been there. All I can say is that you can't be too ready to jump ship in today's business world, that loyalty doesn't mean a damn thing to most big employers. And I hope your husband finds work.
That said, if he's getting positive responses until he walks in the door or until he indicates his age somehow, have him try talking to a lawyer about it. Suing is the new national pasttime.
Now, as to your lecturing "your time will come" comment, I promise you, I know my time WILL come--and when it does, a silvery hell's comin' with me. I will be buying a cane, joining the Gray Panthers, talking about how things were better back in Reagan's day, yapping about getting my AARP discount, and badgering young whippersnappers like you would not believe. And until then, I will be just as pissed as every other young person who has dealt with "gimme seniors" since birth. So you can lay off the "your time will come," because I've been waiting for it since I was old enough to wonder why seniors got discounts when they owned nicer houses and drove better cars than my folks.
You want age discrimination? Check your bill at Denny's. Check the bill the young couple at the next table is paying. Check your husband's old paychecks, and see what happens when he hits 62--he'll have Social Security to help out. I bet if you could compare my experience and his at the same ages, you'd see a substantial difference in our paycheck sizes due to tax bite and a real difference in when we can afford to retire as a result. That's the ultimate in age discrimination, Grandma, and I guaran-damn-tee you that if you think YOU have suffered ANY substantial age discrimination in comparison, even though your generation has paid far LOWER taxes than you should have given the government services you've benefitted from, and my generation will be paying for the Boomer treasury raiding long after you're gone, well, you are eagerly going to be one of those gimme seniors I'm so tired of.
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The worst group to be is the same old one - X. We had crap career paths for the first 10 - 15 years of our working lives. That of course was due to the mass of Boomers ahead of us, carving out their territories and holding onto them, not to mention their overall chidishness and chaotic personal lives (one needs to make more money when they have multiple alimony payments and expensive habits). Then, right when things should have started getting better, extreme afirmative action, and the H1B issue, suddenly started to erode us from behind. My lone consolation is that all those lean years between when I came of age and my mid 30s made me stoic, miserly and street smart. I'll essentially never make the same mistakes the Boomers made (and continue to make) and therefore need less in order to live comfortably.