I was employed in the Methodist System for 19 years. In the final five years I noticed a disturbing trend of “encouraging” older or disabled employees to resign or retire early. This generally took the form of “write ups” on job performances of employees with impressive tenures. These were mostly critiques of performances that had been baseline for years. One couldn’t help but notice that each of these employees were either older or chronically ill. I personally retired eighteen months early as I could no longer witness this unethical behavior.