Re: Next one forced out

Your perception is that they are harassing you by limiting your work, putting you on report, and monitoring your calls. From an employer perspective you may be an ineffective or inefficient worker. There are several things that you can do to correct that perception. Keep a record of all your telephone calls, length, time of day, person to whom you were speaking. Limit your personal telephone calls to your break times and lunch. Never make one during work hours. Second, keep a record of assignments and when they were completed. Report to work early. Finally, when your assigned work is complete, ask for and do more work than assigned. This will do several things, it will keep a record and should they terminate you, you will be able to demonstrate that the termination was pretextual. Right now they are keeping book on you and they will have the evidence to claim that you were inefficient or ineffective and deserved termination. Don't quit, be patient. Make them take action, but do not give them cause for action. If you voluntarily leave, it makes it near impossible to prove that you were discriminated on the basis of age. Most employees in your situation, complain, but never make an honest evaluation of their work behavior. If they have been slack, they need to improve. Most of us can improve and probably need to improve. What you describe is probably not sufficient basis to claim age discrimination.