Confabulations

At the moment the default retirement age in the UK is 65 – this means that employers can terminate an employee’s contract when they reach that age and basically force them to retire. If you want to stay on beyond that age you have to request it in writing and you’re not necessarily going to get accepted. Now, some clever HR folk want the government to scrap this retirement age and let people work as long as they like.

As if anyone wants to work beyond 65!

Well, maybe there are some people in really fulfilling jobs who’d love to stay on, but they’re the sort of people who wouldn’t be terminated anyway. For most of us retirement age is a long-awaited occasion when we finally get money off the government and can pursue other hobbies like gardening, staying up all night, installing hand rails throughout our homes and becoming cantankerous. I for one would vote for the retirement age to be lowered to 21. The government could fund it through adsense – I’d even help them to build the website. Forcing the elderly to work when they should be out getting divorced and finding toyboys is tantamount to abuse, so please support forced retirement for the good of the nation.