No no no, you mean, dedicated 82 year old worker is extremely enthusiastic to go flip burgers everyday ! She doesn't want to retire because she loves her job and would be bored otherwise !
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reminds me of when republicans said the elderly should go to work in the worst days of the pandemic in order to save the economy
Damn boomers won’t move on from their posh jobs and make room for up and coming millennials!
A true statement, even if it doesn't apply here.
People can be completely fucked at the same time that others are hoarding wealth. Consider those who own multiple homes while young families can't purchase one. Our elders are fucking us over. Said the guy who will soon be an elder.
Don't worry guys, a GoFundMe will be able to give him the retirement money McD successfully cheated themselves out of.
Uhmmm... At this point, what if you guys set up like a GoFundMe for everybody? Like you all agree to put a part of your wages into this common GoFundMe, which is a small cost all in all, and when the time comes, each worker gets their own payout! You could even have it pay monthly, to make sure that nobody can waste all their fund too early and end up destitute.
We could call it “Social Security”. Before there was GoFundMe, there were taxes that could be used in a similar fashion for expenses society finds valuable.
I’ll be the evil right wing swine here and say it out loud - I don’t expect you to be able to retire from a part time minimum wage job, but that’s also the reason we have ’safety nets’ that are supposed to ‘catch’ you in these cases. It shouldn’t be a surprise that you can’t retire from a McDonalds gig but don’t let your outrage redirect you from the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”, or the (implied?) social security is insufficient
Uhm, if you've worked all your life, you deserve retirement, regardless of the job you held.
There should be a safety net letting you have livable retirement regardless whether you’ve worked or how successfully. That applies both to this gentleman and the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”. My point is we should be more outraged about the lack of the latter
We have a retirement pool at my job where when someone retires, everyone in the pool donates them an hour of pay.
Not enough to live off of for the rest of your life, but it's a nice little bonus. I think we're at like 95% participation, too.
That's kind of cool. Although with the turn over rate of how long most people stay at jobs these days I am shocked not more people have the jaded mentality of "why should I do this if I'll never benefit from it myself". Pretty cool that everyone just does the better thing for others.
They didn't work at mcdonalds until they were 67 years old. They worked for 30 years as a radiation monitor at a nevada test site that should have provided a pension.
Where did the money from 35 years of that income (1964-1999) go? where did the pension go?
Now it's a feel-good story about community!
And then another news outlet will write a misleading headline that makes it sound like McDonald's gave them the money! All will be whole again.
"Decades of service"
Corporate propaganda and orphan crushing machine at its finest
Why? That seems like pretty neutral language to me.
It is an extra step to remove McDonalds from the situation in.
This dude didn't start working at mcdonalds until 2009 - 15 years ago. They would have been 67 years old, already retirement age. They didn't work retail prior whatsoever, so this isn't a story about how retail pays like garbage (it does.)
They worked as an assistant to a handyman from 1999-2009. Before that they worked as a radiation monitor at a nevada national security test site from 1964-1999.
Today radiation monitors make ~60k/year. I'm guessing in the past they were paid more than this proporitonally. Why couldn't they save up money? It's not like nevada is very HCOL. It's not like they were making minimum wage flipping burgers.
For the record, the nevada national security sites mention a pension, so during his 30 years working there he should have gotten one, no? https://nnss.gov/careers/msts-benefits/
Username checks out.
At 82 he's gonna croak or have health expenses out the wazoo soon enough
My grandma lived to 103.
What age did she get to retire from McDonald's?
104?
They put her in charge of the ice-cream machine so that her sudden change in work ethic wasn't detrimental to the running of the restaurant
If you ask CEOs 82 is way too soon to retire anyways
Old enough to run for President!
CEOs are on the clock 24hours a day after all, and keep working way into old age! Not to mention all the investment they usually do, that's a lot of work, and they do it until they die!