Age discrimination allegations by employees are at a record high the article says.  A recent Supreme Court ruling said it is not enough for employees to show age is a motivating factor in a demotion or layoff. Rather, workers must prove it’s the deciding factor in the case. Which is all well and good, but most cases aren’t about age at all, but rather about attitude and presence.  And attitude and presence are things we have personal control over, regardless of age.

We know about attitude.  Everyone likes someone who is pleasant, a team player and easy to get along with.  Including employers.  Given the same job and having the same skills, one pleasant employee, one not so ~ in a crunch the boss will always keep the pleasant employee and let the ornery one go.

What do I mean by presence?  Presence is the total way you carry yourself and how you are perceived by others.  If someone were to spy on you while you were working, would they see someone who appeared clean, with attention to detail as far as personal appearance and dress.  Would they see someone working in organized fashion in a careful and methodical way?  Would they see someone who spoke with pleasant and professional courtesy to everyone?  Would they see someone who really appeared to know shat she was doing, and did it well?  Would you exude the presence of someone who really had their act together, knew their job, enjoyed their work and could figure out how to get just about anything done that needed to be done? Would they see someone who they would be proud to have represent their company?

With that kind of presence, it won’t matter if you’re 40 or 70.  You’ll have your choice of jobs.  Not so much for the same-skilled employees who are kind of critical and kind of ornery and kind of gossipy and kind of diva-ish and spend more work time discussing their personal life than adding to the value of their employer.  If someone else has the same skills and a more pleaasant attitude, it will be adios, muchacha for them in a down sizing.

Your employer doesn’t owe you a job.  The reason you’re there is to help keep the company cohesive and to work together with your fellow employees to make it a success.  If you’re not proud to work there, leave.  Now.  Do yourself that favor, and allow your employer to fill the slot with someone who wants to help make them a success. You don’t want the karma of staying somewhere you don’t want to be.

We all deserve to work with people who cheer us on in our endeavors, and help us strive to reach shared goals.  If you can’t be that for someone, then be elsewhere.  Because if you don’t want to be there, it will show in your attitude, it will show in your work, it will be a palpable aura around you that everyone will perceive.

And no one wants to be around that.

But don’t call it age discrimination.

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