juniority

Nicholas E. Calio, president and CEO of industry trade group Airlines for America, told attendees that after hiring 100,000 new workers during the pandemic and its aftermath, “we worry about juniority.”

In happier times, when he was boasting about replacing trained and highly paid workers with new and inexperienced ones, Bastian called the savings “the juniority benefit.”

Turns out there’s a juniority cost, too.

“Right, made me a junior. Resigned me to juniority.”

And thus, by prompt generalship, Miss Veronica Vereker, while obeying to the letter the laws of hospitality and precedence, stole a march upon her slow-moving brethren and sisters and received the lion's share of the trifle, the balance going to Tony by virtue of juniority.