Older workers keeping young adults out of jobs

Reuters ^ | 4/7/10 | Lucia Mutikani

[Kartographer]

Young adults in the United States are being squeezed out of the labor force as older workers either delay retirement or seek jobs to rebuild nest eggs destroyed by the recession, a study showed on Wednesday.

The size of the labor force fell 6.3 percent for young workers, but increased 8.5 percent for workers 55 years and older between December 2007 and January 2010, according to the study by the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

[kcvl]

[alarm rider]

And the older workers generally have a basic understanding of English.

[Lady Jag]

Reuters wrote it ass backwards; it should read, "Older Workers More Qualified than Youth."

The phone company, 1997. On rainy days my phone would ring when no one called.

They sent a beach boy who I watched on my surveillance camera as he looked at my flowers, rang the doorbell and announced he couldn't find the problem.

I called the phone company and told them to send an older technician. A guy around 40 showed up and was here an hour, climbing his ladder several times yet finding nothing.

I called and told them send an older guy. Soon a technician about 55 came, announced himself, went outside and was back in 5 minutes with the answer. The phone wire was rubbing against a tree, had scraped its insulation off and when it rained the frayed wire and the tree created phantom phone calls.

Not only does experience count huge in efficiency, values and quality of education have tragically plummeted.

Put that in your headlines, Reuters.

[potlatch]

[Not only does experience count huge in efficiency, values and quality of education have tragically plummeted.]

You couldn’t have said it better LJ. Especially considering the poor education kids are receiving now days, compared to long ago.

Cashiers who can’t count out change if the cash register goes down. You have to look for an older person to help you in a home - building supply store because the young ones can’t answer a question.

But - the school system has coddled kids to feel ‘entitled’ and so they think they deserve the best jobs.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so, kiddies...how is that Obama thing workin’ out for ya?

[Buckeye McFrog]

In 1994 I got my mother a job at city hall working one day a week to get a property tax discount. When the program ended one year later they wanted her full time. She now works two day a week. She will be 77 in June. Dad works at the municipal parking lot three days a week. He’ll be 80 in December.

If you were a serf in medieval Europe and managed to somehow live to 77 or 80, I suspect you had it better

[the long march]

Ou Yeah I forgot about LAMM. Sorry about that they are so much alike it is hard to differentiate

[the long march]

Wee for me since old age and treachery is all I got, pretty much everyone is better looking

[rrrod]

lets just kill em all..../s

[Eagles2003]

Totally backasswards from my experience with the a**hat land line old phone guys, the ones who can’t do fiber.

First old fart came out and told me I had a near short looking into my house. I already said in my T/S complaint I didn’t want those losers in my house. He said the it was about 20 ohms. I asked him give me an actual number, it was 600 ohms, aka a phone.

He found an intermittent short down the block caused by bad wiring. WRONG!

Second Dbag found another short up the line, again, problem not fixed.

Third (younger) guy actually fixed the problem, he re-connected me at the “feed” or whatever they call the distribution box, got me off the bad circuit that was causing the problem.

I’m not crazy about the young workers but there are too many old folks who can’t find their ass with both hands. Worked around too many not to tell the truth.

Some people get old and wise, others just get old.

You can quote me on that.

And three calls to the phone company to get a lousy twisted pair fixed? How lame are they?

[surely_you_jest]

BTW, I am 68 and I do not really give a sh** if young people are being screwed out of jobs, let them reap the harvest of their idiotic voting records.

Amen.

And due to their idiotic voting records, the Millennials / Gen Y have proven themselves to have been misnamed. They really ought to be known as Generation Chump. After all, they are The One's chumps - ultimately they will be the ones stuck with paying the long term bills for transferring what would have been their wealth to the parasite classes as a form of stealth reparations. And they actually voted for this. Heh. It is to laugh ....

[wku man]

Yep, I hear ya. A few years ago I worked with young people in a federal job training program (I dare not speak its name), and one of my rare "good" kids wanted desperately to join the Army. He would've made a good soldier, too, but the recruiter told him in order to join, he's first have to get his wrist to neck tattoo removed. He was heartbroken, to say the least. I hope he managed to find the money to get it removed, but from what I understand, it isn't cheap.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wku man]

I saw a Denis Leary show a few years back, and in it he described getting coffee at a 7-11. The clerk's pants were hanging down below his boxer shorts, and he had piercings all over his face, including one in his lip which made it impossible for him to talk clearly. I think it was Leary's "Lock and Load" show, if you want to check it out. Pretty funny stuff, before he started taking himself way too seriously with that "Rescue Me" show.

At any rate, that clerk is the type of young Generation.com moron who's being displaced by older folks today, for those very reasons and more. Those with the presence of mind to realize how they've screwed up will doubtlessly blame their parents, their teachers, global warming and George Bush for their predicament, rather than being responsible and correcting their mistake(s).

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Lady Jag]

Sorry for your inconvenience. It must have gotten you wired.

[ColdWater]

Of course, under socialism the employment pie is static. Theres a finite number of jobs out there and its up to government to parcel it out..

Under socialism, the employment pie is infinite. However the amount of funds available to the workers is finite and decreasing. It's up to the government to parcel out the funds.

This is actually more like communism. Under ideal socialism, everyone would produce to their capability and everyone lives happily ever after.

[stephenjohnbanker]

L.J.

BUMP!

[Nonstatist]

Under socialism, the employment pie is infinite

Not really. Productivity growth is generally negative, so each year it costs more in real terms to employ the same amount of people. Thats why places like Spain and Greece have 23 % official unemployment, and why the Soviet Union, which claimed full employment, actually had over 25 % unemployment (permanent unemployment insurance doled out to people doing no work).

[lonestar]

Most employers would rather hire an elderly person because ——work ethic! Too many young people are undependable and lazy.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

I'd sure hire a senior over some GenX or Generation.com slacker.

GenX people are in their 30s and 40s. You're thinking of Gen Y and Gen XBox.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Some may be working because they don’t like sitting around after retirement. My FIL worked at a hospital as an orderly after he retired from chemical engineering. Was still doing that in his 80s when he died.

For the life of me I can't understand this. People working literally till the day they die? Sheesh, get a hobby!