New Delhi, April 26 -- A former employee of Intel, laid off in his early 60s, has opened up about the financial challenges he faced and how unemployment disrupted his retirement plans. Brad Jenkins, a US-based technician, lost his job in mid-2025 after working for four years with the tech company in Oregon, according to a report by Business Insider.

Jenkins, who joined Intel at 59, said he was always sceptical about being laid off from the start of his job. "I was 59 at the time, and I remember thinking. Why are you hiring some old fart like me?" Over the next few years, I survived multiple rounds of layoffs," he was quoted as saying by Business Insider.

Jenkins said that everything in the job was going smoothly until March 2025, when I...