Kelly's Talkshow

Hey, Ben. Did you see all the fresh recruits HR just hired?嘿，Ben。你看到人力资源部新招的人了吗？Yeah. They look really ... young. 是的。他们看起来真的……很年轻。Tell me about it. I'm not accusing anybody of ageism, but it seems like half our workforce is under 30. 就是说啊。我不是在指责任何人年龄歧视，但似乎我们一半的员工年龄都在30岁以下。I agree. I'm only pushing 40 and already feeling like an old geezer around here.我同意。我才刚近40岁，就已经觉得自己在这像个老家伙了Well, at least they can't let us go for us being too old?好吧，至少他们不能因为我们太老而让我们走吧？Once upon a time, companies could do that, actually. We only got the ban on age discrimination in 1976. Before that, companies fired workers as early as 45 to replace them with more youthful counterparts.很久以前，公司真的可以这么做。我们直到1976年才禁止年龄歧视。在那之前，公司在员工45岁时就将他们解雇，用更年轻的员工取而代之。Yikes! 45!? My poor grandparents! Well, we've come a long way.天呀！45岁？！我可怜的爷爷奶奶们！好吧，现如今还是进步很多了。EXPANSION | 知识拓展What is age discrimination in the workplace?什么是工作场合中的年龄歧视？Age discrimination is an adverse work treatment of an employee based on a class or category that the employee belongs to—employe