No Country For Young Men: 78-Year-Old Former Exec Still Flipping Burgers For Minimum Wage
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
10/07/2014
We noted last week that recent job data shows a strong tendency for “hiring grandparents” as only the over-50s cohort have seen real employment gains since the financial crisis. No one epitomizes that reality better than 78-year-old Tom Palome who, as Bloomberg reports, went from VP or marketing for Oral-B to flipping burgers for minimum wage – because, like the great majority of seniors, he hadn’t saved enough to retire comfortably. “I’m at the age where I’m not going to get out of this alive,”said Palome with a smile, “I plan to work until I can’t walk. I’m still the burger man.”
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