Rest Home in RTE?

dirtyden

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

If the taxpayer, people like you and me, are paying , then continuing to pay folk at the top of their pay scale after 65 is stupid when cheaper younger folk are coming up thru the ranks.

Gives them a break and a chance as well to progress.

May sound harsh but it's business.

If the older person is that good let them get a job in the pvt sector

Why let someone that is good (but getting on a bit) go to the private sector just to give an unknown younger person a chance purely because of age?

That does not sound like good business.

odyssey06

diomed wrote: »

Get a job.

No sorry we don't hire people with grey hair. They stopped us turning down blacks and women so now we take it out on old people. Just because we can.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/106514630#Comment_106514630

Because instead of paying at the top of the scale for years, you are giving a younger person a chance.

screamer

I don’t think older people should be forced out of the workplace if they are still capable of doing the job well. Age discrimination is a huge issue, even prior to 60s, try being hired into a company in your 50s, very difficult as they are hiring younger, cheaper people. With the cost of living and massive mortgages, we will have to work into our later years out of necessity, and for most workers, gone are the gilded defined benefit pensions. Ageism will become an issue for everyone, in time

Out on your ear at 65.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719641#Comment_117719641

Yep, get your snout out of the trough, give others a chance.

Hotblack Desiato

Since when has being capable of doing the job well been a criterion for being an RTE presenter?

It doesn't matter if you are related to the right people.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719641#Comment_117719641

Not quiet that in RTE, you are let off on your pension and then back within months as a contractor. Aonghus McNally retired as a producer in RTE on June of this year yet has been back multiple times as producer on Liveline. Talk about zero sucession planning, joke of an organisation.

Gary Scrod

A quick google search shows that Tubridy is 48. Only another 32 years until he leaves our screens. 🤮

Montage of Feck

It's mad the amount of people in rte married to other people in rte.

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117721514#Comment_117721514

Was surprised to hear his name mentioned as a producer on Liveline recently. He's hardly retired a wet weekend from RTE and now he's back as a contractor...