Why Does Ageism in the Workplace Happen, and How Can We Prevent It?

[@christiane.g.4142]

As an older worker who has experienced unimaginable age-harrassment in the workplace, i can testify that it has exploded in recent years. The main barrier to employment for me the last 15 years has increasingly been my age

[@FloridaArtist777]

I'm seeing Generation X standing up now and fighting back against ageism! Generation X has to be one of the coolest generations that has ever existed and it figures that it is this generation that this fight begins with!

[@manicmike8585]

As a US American 41 yr old dude who's been in working in China for the past 10 years, I would say this for people pushing 50 & 60 in the US: Stop watching TV with your beer, ciggaretes, and wine, night after night. Go outside and do stuff, dance, stretch, get sunlight, walk, or run. Even playing board games outside is something. I know this is technically anecdotal, but older people here look so much healthier and happier... To some degree anyway.

[@whitewolf6730]

I am just trying to get some help in trying to get a decent job . It looks like there is not a lot for people in my position, married, white, straight, Christian male. Seems that every conceivable special interest group has portrayed it with their own filter.

[@briankady4275]

The conversation about heart attacks and old age is interesting, given that nowadays, younger folks, especially athletes, are having them too. How many stories have we read about college basketball players (in their late teens and early 20s) literally keeling over on the court due to heart attacks? I read about one professional football player who died of a heart attack on the field in full view of millions of viewers. People forget that the heart is a muscle and the more you work that muscle, the more it becomes scarred and hardened, just like any other muscle in the body, so anymore, heart attacks do not just happen to older people.

[@PthaloGreen2]

"Okay, boomer" is not okay. I'm tired of it, and it's not okay to say. Please don't dismiss anyone just because of their age or life experience. That is every bit as awful as dismissing someone because of their race, sexual preference, religion or any other demographic characteristic!

[@sunnycriti9809]

Long live the Blue Zones