Die old people DIE!!!

[goalmouth]

You're worse than useless -- you cost MONEY!

 

[Baron Scicluna]

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I thought this was another Coronavirus thread.

 

[JakeandElwood]

Saw that first hand at my last company - the number of people let go with 30+ years of service in their early 60s was awful. Just reinforced that I need to be able to retire in my 50s.

 

[Batman]

Who had "Logan's Run" in the pool for "Which dystopian sci-fi future will come true first?"

 

[Starman]

And Team Fat**** is going to terminate Social Security next year.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This whole system is designed to scam every nickel away from you through healthcare and assisted living so you die flat broke with nothing to leave your next of kin.

 

[maumann]

Who had "Logan's Run" in the pool for "Which dystopian sci-fi future will come true first?"

My money's still on Soylent Green.

 

[maumann]

Saw that first hand at my last company - the number of people let go with 30+ years of service in their early 60s was awful. Just reinforced that I need to be able to retire in my 50s.

It was amazing how many of the 50-plus age group were in the job placement assistance program the first time I got laid off from Turner in 2012. People who had been regional sales directors, vice presidents, senior adminstrators, etc. (F-ing SUITS!)

None of them had updated a resume in years and most would have been overqualified for any open position available. The job counselors were talking about "reinventing yourself" and I looked around the room at a lot of blank stares. I have no idea how those people were going to bridge the gap between 50 and retirement.

Age discrimination is real, but almost impossible to prove. A company has the right to lop off the highest paying salaries, and oh by the way, those just happen to be the people who are almost to retirement but not quite. "But we didn't fire you because of your age!"

Who needs institutional knowledge when you can save $$$ AND MEDICAL BENEFITS by hiring younger, healthier peons!

I needed Gwen to work to 60 to be eligible for State Teacher's Retirement health benefits to bridge us to Medicare. Otherwise, we'd have been in a world of hurt, too.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Both of us fought like hell to keep my wife in her job at UAB. She put up with some horrible immediate managers and lots of bureaucratic bull**** until she retired after 29 years of making less than someone with her skills in the private sector - but her employer didn't go out of business, get bought out and/or have mass layoffs or burn down as her previous jobs had. She wound up with a fully vested retirement in the state teacher's retirement system and that modern day rarity, an honest to god pension. Throw in access to high quality insurance benefits, to the point that there is no point even looking at any other Medicare supplementary insurance program. She also worked until disability forced her to retire, which meant that she draws full Social Security disability as if she had worked until she was at max benefits before retiring.

It has and will continue to make a huge difference in our quality of life.

 

[User 150927]

That's awesome. If the GOP succeeds in gutting Medicare, retirement will become a myth.

 

[Neutral Corner]

If they gut Social Security and Medicare, we're screwed.

 

[Tarheel316]

My money's still on Soylent Green.

Soylent is people!

 

[Driftwood]

I've probably told this before.... and it worked out for me more than I can ever believe....

In my newspaper days, the only way anyone ever moved up was for the person at the top to retire, then everyone advanced a peg.
I was assistant sports editor for nearly 20 years, and the sports editor had held that spot more than two decades. He was in his 70s and wouldn't retire simply because he had nothing better to do. He log jammed a bunch of people and never caught on when people kept asking him when he was going to retire.
I finally gave up and moved on to a much better career and life. If he had done what he should have, I'd probably be the SE of a dying newspaper making about two thirds of what I am now and working 60 hours a week to get it, but dang.

 

[Starman]

If they gut Social Security and Medicare, we're screwed.

OK Boomer!

 

[maumann]

OK Boomer!

Hey, I'm dying as fast as I can. I can't help it if some people are better at it than I am.

 

[Starman]

When I was in high school in the early-mid Seventies, one of our Econ teachers made quite a stink by saying, "Social Security will be gone before you even get there."

He got some blowback from parents, as I recall. Boiled down, his argument was, "You're 15 now. You're on the tail end of the biggest population boom in the history of the nation. Sometime in the next 50 years there will be a recession or depression, and by the time you get to 65, it'll be gone. So if you want to retire, you're gonna have to do it your own damn self. Get a job with a good pension, because Social Security will be gone. Oh, by the way, it'll also help if your parents leave you a load of money."

 

[maumann]

When I was in high school in the early-mid Seventies, one of our Econ teachers made quite a stink by saying, "Social Security will be gone before you even get there."

He got some blowback from parents, as I recall. Boiled down, his argument was, "You're 15 now. You're on the tail end of the biggest population boom in the history of the nation. Sometime in the next 50 years there will be a recession or depression, and by the time you get to 65, it'll be gone. So if you want to retire, you're gonna have to do it your own damn self. Get a job with a good pension, because Social Security will be gone. Oh, by the way, it'll also help if your parents leave you a load of money."

Yep. Gwen and I heard the same argument. Stunningly, there's still feed in the trough for now. Congress would be slitting their own throats to whack programs for retirees, since they have little else to do but vote and use their Jitterbugs to call their representatives in Washington.

 

[Starman]

Oh there's something else a few thousand of them could do: not everybody on the cusp of SS is confined to scooter chairs, and quite a few of them own guns.

 

[maumann]

The youngest Boomers (1964) just turned 56 this year. If at least one lives to be 112, you'll be stuck with us until 2076. Happy tricentennial! Boomers and cockroaches.