the damage had been repaired.
Adams signed a "Letter of Commitment," which was dated December 9, 2004. Adams was compelled to sign the letter if he wished to continue his employment for the company. If he did not sign the letter, he would have been terminated at that time. The letter acknowledged the December 4, 2004 corrective notices set forth above, and included Adams' failure to document *1313 the reasons for not completing five loads within his ten-hour shift. Adams asserts that five loads could not be completed in a ten-hour shift because he was told to keep overtime to a minimum, and General Manager Alan Gaddy testified that at the time Adams was terminated, employees generally completed four loads during their regular hours and those who completed fiveloads were generally paid overtime.
On December 13, 2004, Adams submitted a resignation letter to his supervisor David Fink, making his resignation effective December 25, 2004.
Adams testified that prior to receiving the write-ups, Fink had told him that a new management program was in effect and that they were "getting rid of a lot of the older people who were making $70,000 and did not even have a GED." (EEOC Ex. 2 at 75.) In addition, a man named Curtis who worked on front end loaders also told Adams that he believed the company was trying to get rid of older workers with high salaries and little education. Finally, Adams testified that when he worked at Henderson and was assigned to work with younger people, Calvin Francis, the Operations