In the last 72 hours, at least twenty CNN employees (on-air talent, rank-and-file staff, and more) have called or texted me, many of them unsolicited, to convey that things have never been worse.
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Learn to code.
Good enough for coal miners, it should be a piece of cake for all the brilliant CNN minds.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/22/news/economy/coal-workers-computer-coders/index.html
I know it is hard.
American is truly loving and accepting. It is always fine to focus on blue and red every day, but promoting to expand H-1B visa for Wall Street and Big Tech, hits home very hard.
H-1B programs bring too many workers in several fields than we can possibly absorb. Instead, older American is fired frequently. We are going through what you are feeling today, just on a permanent basis when we are over 40 yr.
H-1B program, OPT program, outsourcing are all great. Until we have to survive this in every corporation.
Then you report America needs to expand H-1B visa program. Corporate leaderships all speak in unison. At best, news like yours stops having any flavor.
As an organization to promote equality – CNN, Wall Street, Big Tech and other groups have successfully persuaded America to reduce costs by removing or not hiring American workers over 40+ yr old.
For us: Quiet firing is real, Age matters the most in corporate America: You are truly blessed not having to witness this every day, because every corporation is doing the same using H-1B and outsourcing to reduce costs from hiring middle aged American.
CNN knows, but forgets us.
Pray that today may be just a phase to your career, and you will rebound. I wish if only it could be the same for us.