Three North Carolina employers have been named as good places to work if you're 50 or older.

GlaxoSmithKline and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina — two of the Triangle's larger employers — made the annual list compiled by the AARP, the nonprofit membership group that advocates for older Americans.

In the Triad, the nonprofit Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind was chosen.

Despite the downturn, another local company is gearing up to hire.

Workplace Options, which provides human-resource benefits to other businesses, plans to double the size of its Raleigh headquarters. The company has signed a lease for a 30,000 square-foot building near its existing 25,000 square-foot office, near U.S. 440 and Capital Boulevard.

Founded in 1982, the company now has 175 employees locally and plans to hire 50 more by the end of the year. Workplace Options is led by Dean Debnam, who in 1993 became CEO of the company founded by his wife Stephanie Fanjul, a former Raleigh city council member.

This weekend, feed your inner geek and throw some coin Cy Rawls' way by checking out the latest A/V Geeks program, "S is for Sissy" (featuring "Soapy the Germ Fighter," "Fears of Children" and other disturbing period pieces). It's 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh; suggestion donation is $5, and because proceeds go to Rawls (a onetime member of the A/V Geek posse) nobody is gonna squawk if you want to kick in more than that.