Cursing the Job Market

It can be awful, to be fifty and fighting in the job market. I vividly remember when I worked for AT&T Bell Labs; at the end of my first year, my group was mostly traded to a new supervisor, Doug Yano, and he called me into his office. He brusquely pointed out that it would cost the Labs (and his group) too much in pension benefits to keep me as an MTS long enough to be vested because I was too old and would reach retirement age too quickly, so I had to know that I would be forced out just before I vested, four more years.
Boy, did that sting. I think it was illegal too, but who's gonna sue Bell Labs?