Asking an employee occasional questions about their retirement plans is insufficient to demonstrate age based animus. There may be circumstances, however, where retirement inquiries are so unnecessary and excessive that they constitute evidence of discriminatory harassment. Asking an employee about retirement five times over a ten year period is not discriminatory harassment. In the case at hand, the employee also suggested that her termination involved Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) retaliation, as she had taken a short leave to assist her mother approximately two months before her termination. However, without more evidence, the Court noted that at two month interval between the leave and termination so dilutes any inference of causation, that the Court is constrained to hold as a matter of law that the temporal connection could not justify a finding in the plaintiff’s favor on the matter of a causal link. Slattery v. RMS Company (Minn. D.C. 2010)