TIME GOES BY | Placing Responsibility for Age Discrimination

Synchronicity stepped into Crabby Old Lady's life yesterday. Just as she was having a private snit over what must be the ten thousandth article she has read with execrable advice for older job seekers, an email arrived from a friend who, at age almost 64, was laid off on Monday.

Crabby's heart sank. She has been there. At the same age. But, unlike her friend, in a still booming economy. Even then, she learned to recognize that look on the faces of 20- and 30-something hiring managers - the look that means for god's sake, I can't be expected to hire grandma, now can I, so let's get this over with as fast as possible, you old bat.

Crabby is painfully helpless in regard to her friend's predicament, but she can rant, and that she will.

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