‘F***ing cement ceiling’ | Employee blasts firm with ageism claims in scathing farewell email

A former employee of Australia’s ABC Radio National sent out an angry farewell email to existing workers claiming the company is institutionally ageist.

The disgruntled employee criticised Radio National (RN) for favouring older employees over younger ones, saying older colleagues benefitted from “winning the demographic lottery.”

A lack of career planning and ineffective performance reviews were also a part of the worker’s complaints, but a criticism of apparent favouritism towards older employees was the main theme trickled throughout the email.

“I used to laugh ironically to myself when feminist colleagues spoke about the glass ceiling for women,” read the email. “At RN there was a f***ing cement ceiling for anyone born after 1972.”