Ageism in the workplace

We recently had a store meeting at my job and one thing that the store manager talked about was people coming to work when they are scheduled and everyone being on time for their scheduled shifts. He then pointed out two people that he says are always on time for their scheduled shifts. Both of these people happened to be over 50 years old. This made me think about the presentation that was done on older people in the workplace.

I work in retail and a lot of employers there are both students and workers. During mid-terms there were a lot of people who called out because they said they had tests to study for. Older workers are not college students and they don’t really have many other factors that prohibit them for going to work.

Young people work hard to go to school and work and I think we should get more credit than what some employers give us.