I have discovered through my temp job explorations that age determines person intelligence, their speed, and their overall health..blah.. blah…blah. I hate being made out to seem as something that I am not.
And I have many times. I am 21 years old and through the temp jobs that I had ageism was found.
Lets revert back to one of my favorite jobs: working with Blue Compass as a shipping and packaging personnel. I will tell you a little story. In this job you would have to fast, think fast, talk fast. No problem there. They put you on an assembly line next to the conveyer belt and you put the items in each box. I just happened to be the youngest of the team. Apparently, whoever is the youngest does all the shitty things, like pick up heavy units, performs things that would otherwise leave the elder personnel in a wheelchair for the rest of their life. Well, one day, which happened to be the day that I was sick I was assigned way too much for me to handle. My manager assigns me to put two chocolate cocoa boxes, one coffee box, and two other coffee boxes in the big package box. When everyone else had to put in a couple of things in the box and stand there and look pretty. Consistently I fell short. I would always be the one who slowed the whole team down. It was incredibly annoying. I was further pissed off when the second in command woman jokingly says to me, “Sleeping in?”
Ageism is practically invisible. I am looking forward into making it seen. I didn’t realize I was being discriminated against. Most people don’t. Ageism is one of those ‘isms’ that can be easily denied and can have this wonderful explanation as to why it was happening.
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