I work for a company that does CNC machining. We are located in a part of FL that has a great deal of experienced workers who have worked in the aerospace industry for many years. These guys have talent and experience that a lot of our applicants do not, but we seldom hire anyone over 40. Why? Because some of the ones we’ve hired in the past didn’t take the job seriously, Machining in general is easier now with advanced CNCs, but these guys would just show up for a paycheck, and their age made it extremely difficult to fire them unless we caught them sleeping on camera on SEVERAL occasions. We get enough layabout screw-ups under the age of 25. We fire one of them for incompetence, nobody notices, but we fire someone who does less work than that 19 year old bum we just tossed, and we have to ask our lawyer in NY first. That’s why it’s hard for older people to find work. Anti-Discrimination laws interfere with the Free Market and it hurts those it intends to help the most. It’s easier to not hire them in the first place, and I can be fired for pointing it out, because I’m under 30. See how that works?
