5 F.3d 955, 958 (5th Cir.1993) (comment that plaintiffs supervisor made to plaintiff regarding retirement benefits when plaintiff was terminated, that “Cliff, I hope when I get to your age, somebody does the same thing for me,” proved only that supervisor desired a similar retirement package upon his retirement, and “shed[ ] absolutely no light on the central issue” of “whether Bodenheimer’s age was a factor in [the supervisor’s] decision to terminate him”); Barnes v. Southwest Forest Indus. Inc., 814 F.2d 607, 610-11 (11th Cir.1987) (defendant’s statement to plaintiff that he would have to take another physical examination “and at your age, I don’t believe you could pass it,” was not direct evidence of discrimination). E.E.O.C. v. Texas Instruments, 100 F.3d 1178, 1181 (5th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). . I realize that there is a distinction
holding that an employers statement about an employees age making him eligible for retirement simply recognized a fact concerning the employees seniority an observation which did not imply seniority was the reason for discharge holding that employees of differing seniority levels were not similarly situated holding that a requested reassignment was not reasonable because it would violate the seniority rights of other employees holding that court would not imply a statutory cause of action for employers interference in employees assertion of claim for compensation holding that an employees claim for breach of a letter agreement was preempted by erisa where the agreement did not specify the amount or other terms of the employees retirement benefits and the court would have to refer to the employers erisagoverned retirement plan to determine the employees retirement benefits and calculate the damages claimed