I’m not comfortable asking for favors. I grew up in “Bootstrap,” Oklahoma where asking for help was seen as failure. After all these years, I still struggle with a “do it all myself” life approach.
The problem? It doesn’t work, especially if your goal— as mine is— is to drive systemic change in broken systems. The broken system is our workplace. Here’s a quick assessment of what’s wrong:
- Employers value money over employees.
- AI (which has value) is being used to slash qualified, trained, reliable, full-time employees from their payrolls. Other countries have passed laws to protect employees from AI impact. Not the U.S. Companies here first sold jobs overseas to grow leadership coffers. Now they are selling Americans out over machines.
- A major shift has happened. Companies used to slash freelance and agency costs before permanent employees. No more. They now cut full-time employees first.
- The unspoken agreement between employer and employee has disappeared. Employees used to exchange hard work for salaries providing adequate living. Now, companies are using AI and other reasons to reset salaries back decades. Older workers are especially vulnerable to this approach.
- Companies in America no longer respect employee personal time. Employees are expected to deliver at all times. This is illegal in other countries.
- Employees in the U.S. have fewer protections than employees in other countries. In most states, they are hired and fired at will. Employees actually have no right to a job in America. This is why employees have become so expendable.
- Truth telling, whistle blowing and exposing fraud have become ways to be blacklisted as an employee rather than protected. Yes, there are laws. Employers have learned how to finagle around these.
- Likewise, employers know how to manipulate around other protections. With age, for example, they try to position older employees as weak or poor performers. It’s a ruse to cut costs, employ AI that’s not job ready and funnel more money to the top.
- Substance no longer matters. Style is praised and rewarded rather than substance and actual productivity and performance.
- HR works against employees rather than for them.
- Employee benefits dwindle every year. Workers pay more for healthcare and no longer have pensions or matching for 401ks. Parental leave is rare; many places don’t even have maternal leave after childbirth.
- What raise? What bonus? Salaries haven’t kept up with inflation while the billionaire wealth soars.
I could go on. I won’t.
I can’t fight all of these. So I’ve chosen to focus on one close to my heart: late-career job loss. At the age of 60, after 40 years and 150+ industry awards, I was fired in an 8-minute meeting. No guidebook existed for what I was going through so I wrote one myself.
Ageism is a growing problem for men and women. The EEOC reported a 12% year over year increase in claims. I focus on women. Why? Women are 40% more likely to lose their jobs in their 60s than men are.
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