5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee

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24. #5 struck a note

I recently retired from a civil service job. It used to be a decent job. When I was in my early forties, people still called me the baby of the office. It was common to see workers in their fifties, though rarely sixties.

More recently, the staff has been transformed into an all-young, all-female crew. I can't explain the exodus of men from the job, but I know that the youth factor relates to the high turnover, and very few workers say they want to stay long term. When I was hired, they required two years of related experience. Now they can't find experienced people to take the job, so almost all new hires are hired as "trainees" at a lower pay scale... then there was a salary freeze that prevented them from getting bumped up after they had worked there for two years.

Honestly, the job wasn't that bad, but the recent decline foretells some serious problems in the works.