The Everyday Ageism Project: Trouble Managing Older Staff

The Everyday Ageism Project

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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Trouble Managing Older Staff

40 year old female tells how her age was an issue for others when she was 23

"I was a young manager [aged 23 years], managing older staff. When yearly reviews on staff were conducted one member of the team would not accept the report score and disucssed this with the rest of the staff who then would make digs at me. The comments were I was too young too know what I was doing."

[This made me feel] "Angry as I knew the job as well as they did and had previous managerial experience."

The other staff were estimated to be around 50 years old.