Job picture brightens, but not with help of rose-colored glasses
To lead off “Job picture brightens; older workers struggle” [page one, May 19] with Larry Dinwiddie was both unfair and misleading for the ranks of people over age 55 who are still searching for gainful employment. Though I feel badly for Dinwiddie, what he did in leaving a good job in a deep recession because he “had a life” casts a misrepresentation on what has really happened to many.
Most people over age 55 who are currently out of work were let go after putting in many years with companies. Many of these companies have used the recession and tight economy to clear out the higher-paid, longer-tenured employees and replace them with younger, lower-salaried employees.
This could be the legacy of this recession —people who put in many years for a company being cast aside when the opportunity presented itself.
— Robert Oberlander, Issaquah