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A study of 199 people from 56 project-based professional teams with a flat structure and multi-generational staff found that younger staff regarded older staff as less competent, and therefore less trustworthy. This bias was mitigated when older staff spoke up frequently enough to demonstrate competence.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-older-workers-trustworthy-younger-peers.html
Original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00187267261435537
Older workers are stereotyped as less competent, less trainable, and less adaptable by their younger colleagues, influencing how they are viewed by management, a University of Queensland study has found. Associate Professor Chad Chiu from UQ's Business School said surveys conducted across workplaces in Australia and Taiwan found consistent evidence that younger workers were less trusting of their older coworkers.
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"Towards the end of her undergraduate degree, Leah’s student allowance had run out (not only is there a strict eligibility criteria but, if you are over 40 years old, you can only access it for 120 weeks in total).
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As per the Studylink website, once you turn 55 you cannot add living costs or course-related costs to your loan. "
Context: Someone wrote a post about a reading of erotic poetry where they opined about how awkward and distasteful it would be for them to hear people the age of their parents read erotic poems.
I found this very upsetting and responded to that thread explaining why.
Hopefully they've removed that post. I can no longer see it. Though I guess it's possible they blocked me and that's why I can't see it. Either way, I'm removing the individual's name and instead just reposting my rant, which still needs saying.
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Why does age matter here?? What does that change? I can see cringing at erotica at all, like some people object to PDA, but as you age you may realize there's far less difference than you think, and how outright inhumane it is (and I don't use that as hyperbole but as literal truth) to have older humans treated as something different than "regular" humans, made to live life separately and diminished in participatory privilege. If you think it differently offensive than race segregation, maybe think harder.
It is scary enough growing old without people treating you like the walking dead who need to stop participating in regular life and just sit by and watch available time pass, kept from doing anything by people who casually and without apology talk of it like "of course it must be thus".
It may seem like just words but such words form rock hard prisons in our society. Actual enforcement of such separation occurs exactly because people shamelessly call for it in this way. It would be in many cases more humane to offer people death with dignity than require they live on in such a world that sees and treats them this way.
It's hard to overstate how angry this makes me.
#aging #discrimination #manners #segregation #society #insensitivity #AgeDiscrimination #elderly #poetry #erotica #pluralism #multiculturalism
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