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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 5219585"]Please forgive me being late to this thread, but I found it and it really struck a chord with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I turned 53 this past month and I just found out that my employer is selling out to a larger company that boasts about its "energetic and enthusiastic" sales force. From experience, we all know those are probably code words for "young and underpaid". I have been with the same company, enduring layoffs, reorgs and just about everything else for over 25 years, and I have no illusions that my employment will be continued if this merger takes place. There is no rep from the other company in my territory and we don't have any competing products per se. I just don't know anyone from that acquiring company that isn't under 50. I know they fired a bunch of reps a few years back after their product went off patent, and it seems all the reps they fired were 50 or over.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea what the future will bring. I don't know whether to go back to school to get a nursing degree or what. Just venting here. I have a ton of company stock, but somehow my employer will find a way to screw us out of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 5219585"]Please forgive me being late to this thread, but I found it and it really struck a chord with me. I turned 53 this past month and I just found out that my employer is selling out to a larger company that boasts about its "energetic and enthusiastic" sales force. From experience, we all know those are probably code words for "young and underpaid". I have been with the same company, enduring layoffs, reorgs and just about everything else for over 25 years, and I have no illusions that my employment will be continued if this merger takes place. There is no rep from the other company in my territory and we don't have any competing products per se. I just don't know anyone from that acquiring company that isn't under 50. I know they fired a bunch of reps a few years back after their product went off patent, and it seems all the reps they fired were 50 or over. I have no idea what the future will bring. I don't know whether to go back to school to get a nursing degree or what. Just venting here. I have a ton of company stock, but somehow my employer will find a way to screw us out of that.[/QUOTE]
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