Nobody actually 'employs' younger people anymore, they just take them on as interns for peanuts. Apparently in the modern workplace, degrees/qualifications are essentially useless, so, after graduating from uni with little but a crippling student debt, you are expected to continue to live off parental charity until you have gained sufficient work experience to get a real job. (Of course, if you don't have a degree you will be 'underqualified' for anything bar mcdonalds).
It actually starts to make pension ages a little irrelevent, our generation will go from paying off our own debts to paying off our childrens (degree fees will be so high there is no earthly way they will be able to pay their own), so we will probably be working right up until they cart us straight from desk to nursing home.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Necroticist from Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:52:19 PM)| |  | Necroticist wrote: | | UK government is also yapping about raising the age...it's silly...just deprives young ppl of jobs...which is stupid if ur an employer....i mean...doddering old fart or a young go-getter....where's the choice?
| | | spapad wrote: | | OK, I'll put this here because I'm not really pissed off about it, so much as disgusted by it.
Riots in France for a week all because the government is going to raise retirement from 60 to 62. WTF!! They are allready spoiled enough. One month of Vacation time plus those additional National holidays, 35 hour mandated work weeks. They cry because they have to work two more years?
Anyone my age and below in the US cant reach full retirement until the age of 70 now, 40 hour work weeks are the norm if not more overtime, and Vacation time in most cases is cut at two weeks, half of us do not get sick leave, so many of us don't get company funded healthcare, and these people are crying over 2 years added to their retirement??!!!!
Maybe I'm just jelous of their extra down time, I know I'm jelous that I only hope to live to be 70 to retire, so then I can work part time someplace to subplement my non existent social security check. Edited at: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:50:44 PM
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