With layoffs looming with every LinkedIn and Facebook request, I’m not sure whether I just know more people, or if I’m at “that age” where my demographic is the one quickly targeted for immediate, efficient cost-savings.
Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger, III Age 58, joined US Airways (PSA Airlines) 1980, 19,663 flights hours
First officer Jeffrey B. Skiles Age 49, joined US Airways (USAir) 1986, 15,643 flight hours
Flight attendant, Shelia Dail Age 57, joined US Airways (Piedmont Airlines) 1980, 28+ years experience
Flight attendant, Doreen Welsh Age 58, joined US Airways (Allegheny Airlines) 1970, 38+ years experience
Flight attendant, Donna Dent Age 51, joined US Airways (Piedmont Airlines) 1982, 26+ years experience
http://www.usairways.com/awa/Content/en-US/information/home6.html
You are right on about the sick days. When was the last time you left work early for a manicure appointment? Experience has to count for something other than being the old one on the job!
I agree that experience is something that should be (and often isn’t) rewarded. We recently had an overhaul in our office where in a short span of time approx. 7 (oldtimer) emplyees were let go and replaced with teens and 20 somethings. While I have no problem hiring new kids off the block, replacing that much experience with an unmotivated, basically lazy group of teens was very frustrating. By now half of the teen hires have left (didn’t like the real work concept) and the crew that remains who have been there for a year are our experienced staff, YIKES.