re: #252 reine.de.tout

Reine— while I don’t doubt your testimony at all, it does depend on the industry, the company, and as Six Degrees mentioned, how smart the managers are.
I don’t at all disagree with you that it’s smarter to keep old staff rather than train new people, and more cost-effective in the long term, lots of industries (especially retail/sales ones) have made it a practice for a long time to dump older employees in favour of hiring newer ones that can come in at a lower starting rate (rather than giving the percentage range raise to an older employee).

retail/sales is especially vulnerable to this because every year it’s about the expenditures vs last year, and they assume a short ‘learning curve’ for training. But it’s been happening in many industries for a while now.