Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although he asked for no more money than applicants with 10 to 15 years less experience. Meanwhile, his former company promoted a 36-year-old to fill his allegedly eliminated job. "I suffer from having gray hair and a lack of hair," says McElyea. "There's a perception that younger people have more energy and are agents of change...
...management positions. Result: though they presented equal credentials, says AARP, the older applicants received less favorable responses 41.2% of the time. Three-quarters of those responses occurred before the older applicants had even been granted an interview. Sally Dunaway, an AARP lawyer, says bias is hurting "people at younger and younger ages. It used to be 65. Now it is 55, 48 or even...
...brighter side, most older workers, including those bounced out of good jobs that were later filled by younger people working for less money, eventually find some kind of new employment. Trouble is, they have to search long and hard, and then they must often settle for low-paid, low-skilled work...
...people who finally get hired are always less qualified and younger than I am," grouses George Daniels, 53, a power-house operator at the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-power facility in South Carolina owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, until he was laid off last year. At some chemical companies he has applied to, he says, "the whole personnel in the operator group is younger than 40, and I think they want to keep it that way." Managers, he suspects, "feel they can't manipulate older people like they can younger people who don't have experience. Younger...
Jonathan Cottin, 61, a longtime journalist and Washington lobbyist who has been without full-time work since 1993, says, "We intimidate people who are younger than we are and who might be our boss. They see their parents, and if they've had a bad relationship with their parents, that counts against us. Secondly, the human-resources departments in companies do the math and figure out that in five to seven years we might be a burden on health or pension programs. There isn't much attention paid to the merit we can bring...