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At many jobs, there is an employee who is considerably older than those they work with. Depending on the work, they may either qualify as a Cool Old Guy or Cool Old Lady, an elder with a less approachable personality (usually due to being a Jaded Professional) or a balance between the two. The employee could be seen as being just as efficient as their younger coworkers if not more, or might be portrayed as your typical Scatterbrained Senior. Also depending on the environment, it could be Played for Laughs to try and prove a point to their younger whippersnapper relatives or friends who think they're incapable of doing the job, and usually are, or Played for Drama due to the senior losing their pension or if they do still have a pension, but due to the 2008 Great Recession, it's not enough to live on and they have no choice but to go back to work. See also Old Retainer, Old Cop, Young Cop and Old Soldier (the strictly military version). An inversion of this trope is Reluctant Retiree. Compare and contrast Mandatory Unretirement, when someone goes back to the exact job they quit (while this trope has more to do with an older person or elder taking any job available). May be prone to Experience Entitlement if he doesn't want to change the way things have been done for years. Keep in mind that their age must be lampshaded or otherwise relevant to the plot to be considered an example. If a person just so happens to be the oldest employee with a company but it's seldom commented on, then it's not an example of this trope. To qualify as this trope, it can't be a field where people are often older than average.note Supreme Court Justices are often in their 70s, so a judge in her 70s wouldn't fit Also consider that the character doesn't need to be a senior citizen; a 30-year-old delivering newspapers by bike (typically a job done by a schoolchild) would count. Examples: |
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