Have you, or anyone you know, experienced age discrimination at RA? What were the circumstances? i.e. passed over for promotion, pressured to retire, no response to job applications....
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"Underway". Post proof.
New boss choice underway. Bob,Tessa or Matt. All are better than Blake. That is not saying much. Lots of cleanup. Probably never be the company they could have been.
all employees are just a commodity. Never an asset. Older ones cost more so it makes sense to dump them if they can. All the talk about culture is a for fools. Buy in if it makes you feel good. Dont be shocked when you get the mass firing email.
@rx you just answered your own question.
@ew it feels like the that the company sees the older and experienced employees (25+ years of experience) as liability and not the asset. Are the older folks percieved as negative, too expensive, slow to adopt to new ways, too stuck in legacy, take on the sick leaves, too expensive to get rid off, too smart to be managed out, etc etc.?
@ew that is about right! Highest overall cost to keep the employee vs. Current value of employee vs. future potential (value) of an employee. Yet again this all is not spefic to RA; this happens all iver
They do but it is in a very hard to prove manner.. if you are a long time employee at the ceiling of your pay scale and a member of the pension program you are always on the first list of reduction in force recommendations.. there was some mention that the list doesn't contain names but rather salary (plus pension availability) and title. Obviously if you are pension eligible you are already a 20+ year employee.. which management can care less about.
Yea. Over 50 and you can be on your way.
@aj well the push is to remove the “old style” pension employees first
Rumor was that when round after round of layoffs were going around, managers were given a list of employees with a pension and told to consider them first. Genearlly those would be older employees considering how long ago they closed of adding new employees to the pension plan. I did have a very high up manager confirm this was the case for at least one of the rounds.