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Age is but a number ..

KillerFord1977

KillerFord1977

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I have a position to fill at work
Supervisor role for a large crew.
Person applied that is 70 of age
Blew the other applicants out of the water

He will be my hire

Age is a number
Experience and work ethic counts

The applicants half his age were horrible of ethics, job skills and knowledge of the skill set needed.

Grandpa is getting the job 👍
 
KillerFord1977 said:
I have a position to fill at work
Supervisor role for a large crew.
Person applied that is 70 of age
Blew the other applicants out of the water

He will be my hire

Age is a number
Experience and work ethic counts

The applicants half his age were horrible of ethics, job skills and knowledge of the skill set needed.

Grandpa is getting the job 👍
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Good for you ... as long as "experience" = 'skill level' and not just 'time on a job/resume' somewhere. But I'm sure you already know that. So often these days employers seem to go for the younger applicants for whatever reason they might have. And so often these days employers soon find out they've missed the boat. Thanks for doin' the right thing!
 
I turned 56 nine days ago. Most of my co-workers are in their 20s and 30s. I make them all look lazy and stupid. As one foreman out of 12 in my yard I have managed to elevate my yard to the top in the company by doing my job efficiently, with pride and a primary goal of customer satisfaction. Guys with company seniority on me regularly call me for advice and direction.

There is no advantage in this for me. My company doesn’t care. There is no reward. The lazy asses make the same money as I do and suffer no consequences for their incompetence. They work nowhere near as hard as I do. And they get nowhere near as much done as I do. A couple times a month I get an email outlining a customer communication commending work I did at their property resulting in some lip service from some corporate puke I’ve never heard of telling me what an asset I am to the company.

For me there is no other way. It’s the way I have always done every job I have ever had. I sleep well at night, not because I’m such a conscientious employee, but because I’m F’ing tired.
 
KillerFord1977 said:
I have a position to fill at work
Supervisor role for a large crew.
Person applied that is 70 of age
Blew the other applicants out of the water

He will be my hire

Age is a number
Experience and work ethic counts

The applicants half his age were horrible of ethics, job skills and knowledge of the skill set needed.

Grandpa is getting the job 👍
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Very , very well done. I bet he makes you proud.
 
Bassbob said:
I turned 56 nine days ago. Most of my co-workers are in their 20s and 30s. I make them all look lazy and stupid. As one foreman out of 12 in my yard I have managed to elevate my yard to the top in the company by doing my job efficiently, with pride and a primary goal of customer satisfaction. Guys with company seniority on me regularly call me for advice and direction.

There is no advantage in this for me. My company doesn’t care. There is no reward. The lazy asses make the same money as I do and suffer no consequences for their incompetence. They work nowhere near as hard as I do. And they get nowhere near as much done as I do. A couple times a month I get an email outlining a customer communication commending work I did at their property resulting in some lip service from some corporate puke I’ve never heard of telling me what an asset I am to the company.

For me there is no other way. It’s the way I have always done every job I have ever had. I sleep well at night, not because I’m such a conscientious employee, but because I’m F’ing tired.
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This, this right here, is what my father worked to instill in me oh so many years ago. He said no what what job, from janitor to CEO if you agree to take that job and the money offered you do it to the very best of your ability, every single minute of every day, there are no short cuts. A man who works every day pushing a broom to feed his family is as worthy your respect and admiration as much as anyone else.

I remembered this in my first programming job after college. There was a janitor, very nice and polite guy. I later found out he was taking care of his dying wife, putting two daughters thru med school by pushing that broom and taking care of his 9 RENTAL PROPERTIES, 9... which is how he was putting the last two of 4 kids thru college and the cost of medical bills slk by himself.

Anyways, he came and asked if he could use my desk phone in my office to call his wife to see how she was. I got up had him sit and do so. I even told him anytime the phone was his to use. If I was not there, just use it he told me I was the only one in the basement, where DP was located, that let him and he always called me Mr. Even though I told him many times that was not needed and waited to ask permission to enter my office for anything other than cleaning.

HIM, I respected more than anyone else there. He was the hardest working man outside my father i ever met. A few years back I looked him up in the PR where he was from. I guess more thsn a few now lol. His wife had passed, and he had retired in his late 60s. He sold all his properties bought a brand new Buick and moved down there. He met his old high school sweet heart at a reunion and they were living together like kings very happy on his small avacado farm, with his SSC and pension, and her pension, i think it was avocados. That made my trip...

Age, in his 70s and he was still working had found love again. Age indeed can be just a number.
 
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KillerFord1977 said:
I have a position to fill at work
Supervisor role for a large crew.
Person applied that is 70 of age
Blew the other applicants out of the water

He will be my hire

Age is a number
Experience and work ethic counts

The applicants half his age were horrible of ethics, job skills and knowledge of the skill set needed.

Grandpa is getting the job 👍
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That great I love it
 
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