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Originally Posted by stealthn

Sorry to hear.

Luckily I learned early on that no one was irreplaceable, go laid off in the 80's due to O&G down turn, then when the company I was at was bought I decided to start my own company, going on 24 years this year!


The latest (sad) trend I have seen is companies laying off veteran older workers replacing them with much younger ones. Not sure if it's due to age/thinking or money, probably both...

I suspect it's 99% about the money.

Old timer that's been doing the job 20+ years, $100k. New kid fresh out of college, $50k.

Of course, just like you might hire 5 young kids and find that only 1 or 2 are really good and another 1 or 2 are decent and the rest might suck, you can also have an old guy that's been doing the job forever but hasn't really kept up and is tired and bored and doesn't care any more, so they may cease to be worth the money that their years got them.