The responses to my retirement post are a real eye opener.

[CTyankee]

78. I worked for a liberal organization whose work I support. Yet I had a very bad boss who wanted to

rid of the older staff member ("dead wood&quot . Of course, she would (and did) get sued eventually but I had planned my retirement to when I could collect a more liberal SS payment. It made sense to me and I did my job. But I was one of the "old staff" she wanted to replace because she wanted younger, cheaper staff that she could control better.

She made impossible demands and when you didn't achieve her unreasonable goals she could say "well, she didn't make her goal."

One older staff member sued her and altho the details of the case were not known, we all knew it was outright age discrimination. There was a pattern.

Of course, she went too far and the organization's Board of Directors fired her. This was after I had retired but I was relieved and gratified that my suspicions about her were correct.