You did a fantastic job of operating your pipeline now hit the road. Enbridge is taking over and your f'ed. 2/3 of you are gone. No way enbridge keeps an staff dedicated to this pipeline. Field guys are safe. If your over 50 you really better start contacting old friends and letting them know your looking for a new career.
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It doesn't matter what age you are when you are let go, if you are good at what you do, aren't lazy and are not entitled then you will find a job. And if you are not those things then well I guess you troll around spending hours spreading false rumours about your former employer. Pathetic
The expertise and experience that employees 50+ provide is valuable and it's a shame to lose it due to the company's inability to afford it financially. They can however, afford to lose it from a talent standpoint as there is more than enough expertise and experience in the deep talent pool of Infrastructure Planning and Lifecycle Effectiveness to make up for the loss.
I understand why Enbridge doesn’t want (many) employees over age 50. The company simply can’t afford the experience and expertise that they bring to the table.
What really gets me is the lie behind it all. When Enbridge hired me, I was in my 30s. No one said to me that I’d likely be fired as soon as I hit 50 because I’d be too expensive. No. They pretended that I would be able to actually earn a pension by age 55 or 60, and that, if I proved myself valuable, I would be the one to decide when I would leave.
Now, when the company hires people in their 30s or 40s, they should tell them not to count on being around long enough to get a pension because Enbridge is only for young people.
Otherwise it’s a big lie.
Ruh ro- some of us are in our 60s. Maybe better start packing. For laid off US workers under 65 we have to worry about health care. We need to land another job that provides a health care benefit or we need to pay a whole lot out of pocket per month for health insurance coverage.
Being let go at when you're 50 isn't necessarily a bad thing. You've developed 20-30 years of expertise and now you're given a severance and you'll still get your pension (albeit not as good as if you continued working).
Next thing you should be doing is consulting and banking money into a private corporation and using tidy severance for investments.
My dream is to hit 50+ and get packaged out. I'll be right back the next day charging them 250/hr for consulting the way they work now.
Enbridge recently let me go at 54. I never felt old until the day they laid me off. The PL and HR rep in the layoff meeting didn’t explicitly say that the issue was my age, but I knew that was the case, given that I was the oldest in the group I was part of. I later heard that Bain developed the guidelines on who to lay off. So if you are over 50, and aren’t protected by one of Al’s cronys, you fit Bain’s criteria.
Enbridge hates older workers. They cut about 28 in pa. In Feb.2018 I was one of the 50 year olds with 30 years. The age was 50 and up except for two 26 year olds. Toxic place Spectra was a good company.
I can confirm this as a fact as I was a former Spectra employee that was let go at 54 years old with only 7 months before retirement.
You have to crank out high quality, high volume work at Enbridge. Folks that get older cost a lot more in wages plus they don’t want to pay pensions. I’ve toured Enbridge sites and confirm that rather than respecting our elders we cull them like nuisance deer in the city. Good luck to you fellow deer and may the flower beds taste forever sweet for now.
Yes. If the Spectra fiasco is any indication, beware to those in their late 40's and 50's.
Yes. Enbridge has made it clear that, unless you are protected by one of the morons on ELT, if you’re over 50, your time at the company is up.