Age and sex discrimination is alive and happening everywhere. Try to find a Lawyer to strap on a pair and take on the corporations, even if you have a slam dunk. After being “let go” in 2009 during the economic down slide, I went back to school to earn my degree. It has not changed my prospects for employment one bit. I now find my age and sex against me. I’ve been working part time for a Funeral Home for almost a year and can see the tide turning. At first I was getting 35+ hours a week, which kept my nose just above water level. I was told to be patient that they were going to hire me on full time as soon as a position becomes available. They gave me more responsibility, cross training, things were looking up. Then they created a full time "Supervisor" position for one of their "30" something friends, who is now hiring all his friends and slowly fazing out the older, experienced, dependable workers. Now I’m lucky to get 15 hours a week. I’ve gone from a trusted employee to a problem worker within a month, and it was all because I question my “Supervisor” or ask “why”. For some of us this is our only means of survival. We have lost everything we worked our whole lives for only to be replaced because we made too much money. Now we are just trying to survive so we are not sleeping in our cars. This new “Supervisor” has no clue how to manage people or interact with his employees. We have one woman who has worked here several years hoping for a full time position while jobs are given to men she trained or with less experience. This is right out of the 1960’s. The sad part is all the "click's". If you're not in the click your subjected to a wide range of back stabbing, gossiping, false accusations, anything to get you to quit. I’ve applied for hundreds of positions either on line or just walked in without any response or success. I look back and wonder “what the hell happened”. We were the generation who gave up so much or lost our lives to protect our freedoms, lost our careers in protest for our rights, change discrimination laws and unfair hiring practices, only to find companies still discriminate and are better at getting away with it. If you don’t have the money to shell out for the consultation fee, you can’t get a lawyer to even listen to you. One lawyer told me she charged 10K just to start the process. Who has 10k to throw away, I don’t have 10 bucks. There is no avenue’s for us and these greedy corporations keep getting away with it. The emotional and physical stress is becoming over whelming and disabling. I’m so lost and in shock. I’m only 58 but I feel 80.