What's happened to these people is happening at every sort of media company
you can name--and, of course, many, many firms of all stripes, with
employees of ten or twenty years...This also occurs in a month when Fortune
magazine, no less, has a cover story entitled "Finished at 40"--depicting
the very widespre current practice in the same sorts of firms (i.e., tons
of 'em)--of dropping oldsters of 40 and 45...let alone 55 and 60...with ANY
amount of experience, in favor of the next 22 year old they intend to pay
22 dollars until they're TOO OLD (i,.e., more experienced and expensive) at
30.
Here's the good news: when an organization this rancid drops you, you're
usually better off. Many WILL find new places and better ones...after a
while......and as Stacey just said, some won't...they'll have to move--and
in these circumstances, thatt may not be the worst thing that ever happened
either
A lot of us just don't keep having the chance to do what we love for a
living these days. It was always a kind of blessing to get do it it...and
a lot less good people are looking blessed. ...Eventually, somebody starts
to look at the politics of this. Maybe.
Barry.
Thinkin' about movin to a new job even though he has one lately.
Same kind of "management" at work. Don't tell anybody, huh.
