Why did teenagers stop getting jobs?

[crazy canuck]

I worry about riding the intercity busses in Canada, because of the prevelance of Chinese decapitators. 

Agreed.  I would never travel on a long haul bus without having a metal collar of some sort.

[garbon]

I worked at McDonalds when I was 17 and I closed all the time.

But that does not exactly refute the theory that people who work as teenagers end up having shitty jobs and are idiots, does it?

Teaching is eminently respectable, something that can not be said for being a Polish lawyer.

Not here in America.

[alfred russel]

I worry about riding the intercity busses in Canada, because of the prevelance of Chinese decapitators. 

I would never, and have never, taken an intercity bus in the US or Canada. I think Poland is a bit different.

[garbon]

I just prefer taking a coach/bus into central London, door to door in 2hrs, rather than taking a car and either 'abandoning' it in the suburbs or trying to find a parking place in the centre of town, not a fun game in my experience. 

Well I will certainly go with the notion raised by Alfred that buses are different in different places. I was certainly okay with the Oxford Tube - although the bus I had to take to get to Lewisham wasn't my fave.

[HVC]

And what about the other part of the graph? Why are people who should be retired still working?

Why should people retire?

Because if they don't you end up in a disfunctional gerontocracy, with old people clinging to the top jobs in your society, holding back the generational advancement and getting young people squeezed out of their careers. Some particular cases can be understood, but eventually the old have to get out of the picture and make room for the young.

How is it that one day a person is a productive member of the workforce and then the next day when they have a birthday and reach some magical age they suddenly are "clinging" to a job.  Also, what makes you assume that older workers have all the "top jobs".

Maybe they sucked for a while but firing them was too ard or costly

[crazy canuck]

Maybe they sucked for a while but firing them was too ard or costly

As is often the case with younger workers....

[Eddie Teach]

I would never, and have never, taken an intercity bus in the US or Canada.

I have. There were some city buses in Athens integrated into the university's transportation system.

[HVC]

Maybe they sucked for a while but firing them was too ard or costly

As is often the case with younger workers....

nah, we're easy to get rid of. little or no severance.

[garbon]

I would never, and have never, taken an intercity bus in the US or Canada.

I have. There were some city buses in Athens integrated into the university's transportation system.

Stanford had a bus shuttle service to take students around campus / into Palo Alto.  I pretty much never took it as it wasn't dependable. There was a full on schedule, but you never knew if it would actually come - so you were better of walking or biking if you needed to be somewhere at a specific time.

[alfred russel]

I would never, and have never, taken an intercity bus in the US or Canada.

I have. There were some city buses in Athens integrated into the university's transportation system.

Are those really intercity?

[Eddie Teach]

Oh you meant Greyhound? Nevermind then.

[MadImmortalMan]

University is affordable over here, you don't need to get into debt to get a degree. 

True enough. Or at least affordable to the individual. 'Cause debt you have. 

[alfred russel]

Oh you meant Greyhound? Nevermind then.

I did say intercity, but actually I can't think of any bus system in the US that I would want to get on.

[MadImmortalMan]

Oh you meant Greyhound? Nevermind then.

I did say intercity, but actually I can't think of any bus system in the US that I would want to get on.

Iron Maiden's tour bus would be pretty cool.

[MadImmortalMan]

Iron Maiden's tour bus would be pretty cool.

Oh, wait: