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In reply to the discussion: Sad times at Mickey D's [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I was amazed at how many of the fast food employees were retirees...or should have been. Things have changed since.
Also back then retirees worked as baggers at Publix. At one time a kid of 14 could get a job as a bagger at Publix, then they changed their policy, raised the age to 16 and all of a sudden half of the baggers were senior citizens. I was raising 3 young children back then and other than feeling badly that so many seniors had to work, never gave it much thought. Several years later one of the long-time 'senior' baggers announced he was leaving.... It turned out he had been collecting 2 pensions while working, one from the military and one from the Post Office. I thought of all the kids with whom my children went to school, who could have used those jobs.
Not all working seniors need to.