Over 50 And Out Of Work

[fskimospy]

Go ahead I'll go be an executive at the outsourcing company.

This is a good plan. While we're magically inventing jobs to hold, I'll go be your boss and fire you, just to watch you blubber like the manbaby that you are.

 

[sunzt]

Just tax all imports. Make it more economical to buy domestic.

I plan on working till I am dead.

Age 53 and working like a slave.

Will just make consumer electronics more expensive. Can't buy that stuff made in the USA.

 

[alkemyst]

Go ahead I'll go be an executive at the outsourcing company.

Dude, you probably work fast food and think management is easy.

They'd never hire you or you'd be doing that already.

 

[sunzt]

And that's a bad thing?

It's bad to have elderly run out of money and resort to desperate means to live. Look for crime rates to increase if SS goes away.

 

[fskimospy]

Dude, you probably work fast food and think management is easy.

They'd never hire you or you'd be doing that already.

He claims that between he and his wife they make several hundred thousand per year, but they are so bad with money they can't buy any property. Grade A businessman there... hahaha

 

[Engineer]

He claims that between he and his wife they make several hundred thousand per year, but they are so bad with money they can't buy any property. Grade A businessman there... hahaha

You sure you don't have him and someone else (in this thread) mixed up?:sneaky:

 

[fskimospy]

You sure you don't have him and someone else (in this thread) mixed up?:sneaky:

No I remember it quite clearly, he was babbling on about how making $250,000 a year wasn't rich because he and his wife could barely make ends meet making somewhere around that much. I mean he might very well be lying about how much he makes, of course.

Either way though, it's pretty pathetic. He's either trying to lie on an internet message board to sound cool, or he's so irresponsible with money and such a bad manager of his own finances that he can't afford to save anything while making $250,000.

 

[Jaskalas]

Since no one answered with a plan of action for what we're going to do about this, here is an idea, redistribute retirement.

Pensions, 401ks, social security, everything. All money you have for retirement is thrown into a pool and distributed evenly with everyone else unemployed and of retirement age. You all get the average retirement benefits. Voila!

We get to 'share the burden' as the Dem's talking points demand.

 

[wuliheron]

This has got to be the most depressing site on the internet.

I'm a boomer and all I can say is they did it to themselves. All the political hacks can blame the other guy, but 30 years of consistent failure to get their shit together can't be blamed on any one side. The majority wanted to have their cake and eat it too, and this is the result. You might as well listen to sob stories from heroin addicts while they continue to push the needle in their arm. When they actually show some real interest in changing for the better then I'll pay more attention. I have no interest in watching people kill themselves.

 

[JD50]

This is a good plan. While we're magically inventing jobs to hold, I'll go be your boss and fire you, just to watch you blubber like the manbaby that you are.

Oh yea? Well then I'll go be your boss and hire him back!

 

[JS80]

It's bad to have elderly run out of money and resort to desperate means to live. Look for crime rates to increase if SS goes away.

That'll create security jobs

 

[JS80]

Dude, you probably work fast food and think management is easy.

They'd never hire you or you'd be doing that already.

I am already doing that (but not at an outsourcing company). We have operations in AU, NZ, UK and ZA.

A stupid God believing right wing conservative like me can be in upper management before age of 30 you guys must be pretty pathetic.

 

[JS80]

No I remember it quite clearly, he was babbling on about how making $250,000 a year wasn't rich because he and his wife could barely make ends meet making somewhere around that much. I mean he might very well be lying about how much he makes, of course.

Either way though, it's pretty pathetic. He's either trying to lie on an internet message board to sound cool, or he's so irresponsible with money and such a bad manager of his own finances that he can't afford to save anything while making $250,000.

I hit that mark last year. I'm saving up so I can buy a 3 bedroom $1 million shack here in Communist California. Sorry your thick skull can't comprehend that.

 

[Zen0]

I am already doing that (but not at an outsourcing company). We have operations in AU, NZ, UK and ZA.

A stupid God believing right wing conservative like me can be in upper management before age of 30 you guys must be pretty pathetic.

Ah, the irony of hateful prideful men who proclaim belief in a great God (is that the bearded Jesus one or the big bearded Muslim one). No one taught you that hubris was the worst of the deadliest sins?

The greats that make up our nation produce real work, real products, real services, and real innovation... they don't push around paper and people like you.

Actually, we feel sorry for you. If I were a truly great and loving God I would feel sorry for you too.

 

[jhu]

I hit that mark last year. I'm saving up so I can buy a 3 bedroom $1 million shack here in Communist California. Sorry your thick skull can't comprehend that.

You could leave California or live in a cheaper area. No one is making you stay.

 

[Craig234]

nm

 

[Thump553]

Cry me a fucking river for making poor life choices. Fucking entitled assholes.

I'm over 50. I know exactly two people in my age group that are fully employed at a mainstream type employer. One is self employed, but has been essentially his whole working life. The other is a state employee. All are at least college grads, most hold advanced degrees-including several JD's.

It's sickening what's happening now, especially because with our father's generation about the only way to get fired over 50 was to be a hopeless alcoholic or get caught sleeping with the bosses wife.

It is certainly not a matter of poor life choices. It's more a matter of absolutely no loyalty from employers.

 

[Svnla]

Soon to be out of SS and Medicare in the future, if Republicans get their way.

And to keep the current unsubstainable status quo is better per the Democrats?

 

[wuliheron]

It is certainly not a matter of poor life choices. It's more a matter of absolutely no loyalty from employers.

They expected loyalty from a bunch of money grubbing assholes in the most capitalistic country in the developed world? Whose problem is that?

 

[spidey07]

They expected loyalty from a bunch of money grubbing assholes in the most capitalistic country in the developed world? Whose problem is that?

The worker for not developing their skill to rise to the top and recognize future opportunities. If you don't you're just base labor. I expect no loyalty from my clients or my employer. I DO expect to provide the best product at the best price, that would be my time and my work.

Cream rises. The water that sits around and wants to rise, gets left behind.

Embrace Capitalism. It is what is most in line with our own best interests. In nature if you don't adapt or change you die. We should follow natural laws as it is best for our species.

Capitalism is social darwinism and you don't fuck with the laws of mother nature. Capitalism lines up perfectly with her and the will of Man.

 

[ultimatebob]

2 years of unemployment, all kinds of money and incentives for training/education = extremely easy to do something about being unemployed. I don't know, like LEARNING A NEW TRADE!

And if you don't feel like going back to school, just get a work from home job like selling stuff on eBay.

Hell... if I was unemployed for more than six months, I'd sure that I'd be so bored that I'd be willing to try almost anything to make a buck.

 

[LumbergTech]

The worker for not developing their skill to rise to the top and recognize future opportunities. If you don't you're just base labor. I expect no loyalty from my clients or my employer. I DO expect to provide the best product at the best price, that would be my time and my work.

Cream rises. The water that sits around and wants to rise, gets left behind.

Embrace Capitalism. It is what is most in line with our own best interests. In nature if you don't adapt or change you die. We should follow natural laws as it is best for our species.

Capitalism is social darwinism and you don't fuck with the laws of mother nature. Capitalism lines up perfectly with her and the will of Man.

not everyone can sit at the top....which basically shows that your hatred for those who don't is unfounded and ridiculous

you also don't understand evolution very well

in fact things can be quite beneficial to a species in a counter-intuitive way that cannot be easily identified

spidey spouts this garbage because he thinks that he is a top dog or some shit..just like that moronic thread about atlas shrugged

bunch d-bags who think that THEY are atlas when in reality they just hang from atlas' balls

 

[Zen0]

The worker for not developing their skill to rise to the top and recognize future opportunities. If you don't you're just base labor. I expect no loyalty from my clients or my employer. I DO expect to provide the best product at the best price, that would be my time and my work.

Cream rises. The water that sits around and wants to rise, gets left behind.

Embrace Capitalism. It is what is most in line with our own best interests. In nature if you don't adapt or change you die. We should follow natural laws as it is best for our species.

Capitalism is social darwinism and you don't fuck with the laws of mother nature. Capitalism lines up perfectly with her and the will of Man.

Your elementary assessment of darwinism as it applies (or its inapplicability rather) to social and economic processes is evidence in and of itself that it is useless theory as a life-guide, simply because you continue to exist while you are clearly unfit to be in a position of economic prosperity due to incredulously intellectual incompetence.

 

[umbrella39]

And your solution is to tax companies and make it unaffordable to hire these people.

No silly, the solution is to give them more tax breaks or fuck, not even tax them at all because this always leads to the Job Creators to place help wanted ads. Don't be a trickle downer.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

I'm over 50. I know exactly two people in my age group that are fully employed at a mainstream type employer. One is self employed, but has been essentially his whole working life. The other is a state employee. All are at least college grads, most hold advanced degrees-including several JD's.

It's sickening what's happening now, especially because with our father's generation about the only way to get fired over 50 was to be a hopeless alcoholic or get caught sleeping with the bosses wife.

It is certainly not a matter of poor life choices. It's more a matter of absolutely no loyalty from employers.

This is exactly the entitlement type bullshit that is ruining America.

Here is a hint for you whiners - employers trade money for work - employees trade work for money. THAT is the extent of the relationship. If either decides the relationship is more - great but it isn't to be expected. Either can terminate the trade at any point.

BTW, I know many 50+ employed professionals, even in the fast moving technical field of automation. Sure some of the old are culled as they can't keep up can't make the transition to a management role but those with ambition and skills have had no problem and will continue to have no problem.