>> Age 30, those in their 50s and 60s seemed thoroughly negative - a drag on
>> the business. Tried it before and won't work resistant to change, inability to deal with
>> new tech and ideas etc.
The bolded bit is corporate memory. "Why will it be different this time?" is a very powerful question. There may be good reason now why something that failed before will work but on the other hand some things, like the laws of physics, are immutable.
>> I had the good fortune to be a public sector employee - when offered an
>> early retirement deal (age 58) it took little time to accept.
I too had that good fortune although the offer of early retirement was a consequence of the organisation I worked for being abolished. A lot of other colleagues were, and one or two still are, on the treadmill of ever increasing expectations and targets. The quango was, to some extent, protected by being an Arm's Length Body with an independent Chairman. Was required to be interviewed for posts as part of the redeployment process and, were I successful, I could see myself removed from the prospective redundancy pool with only a short trial period. Those I got interviews for were management heavy and frankly not the sort of role I'd want and where Performance Management was a risk for me.
I managed to avoid being offered anything until very late in the day by which time Voluntary Early Severance was actually on offer. The fact that the quango was not formally abolished until the relevant order. a Statutory Instrument subject to an affirmative vote in both houses, also helped. As did the fact I'd have a key role in winding up post abolition.
I had a letter from a high up conforming I could not be redeployed until abolition in August 2013. Caused no end of bother with the Redeployment Team who asserted such a letter should not have been written. I gave the relatively junior officer telling me I had to be interviewed for a post where somebody was needed immediately in June to take it up with the letter's author...
Left the service at the end of November with an unreduced pension. They kept me in harness for a final 3 months with literally nothing to do. A former manager who could have used my time to do some troubleshooting for him was spitting tacks!!!
Working now in the charitable sector we're a little removed. However, the DWP funded project I was on until the end of August this year was gradually becoming more call centre with a rigid target for daily cases and less time to be a proper Welfare Rights Adviser.
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