Re: Too old?

[Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

   David Farbey wrote:

     When sex discrimination and race discrimination laws were first
     introduced in the UK, people were just as dismissive as you are.
     But now there have been plenty of successful actions on these
     grounds, it does make many employers take extra care not to
     discriminate. I hope that in the course of time the new age
     discrimination laws will have the same effect.

   I agree that over time there may be changes.  My comment was it is
   virtually impossible to charge age discrimination for not getting a
   job in the first place.  I'm not being dismissive.  I'm being
   realistic.  You can't force a company to hire you even if you are the
   most qualified.  Unless you have access to the hiring decision team's
   comments and inner thoughts, you would never be able to charge age
   discrimination for not getting a position and win.  There are just to
   many reasons for not hiring.

     That may eventually mean that us mature writers won't be unfairly
     excluded from competing for jobs at, for example, software
     start-ups, because some manager happens to think we won't fit in
     with the "youthful culture" of their development teams. Heck, they
     may even start hiring developers who need to shave every day!

   Face it,  if you're 30 years older than the founders of a company, you
   won't fit in.  Even if I let my pony tail grow back, pretend to like
   their music, and wear my oversized straight-legged jeans down around
   my hips showing off my plaid boxers, I still wouldn't be able to
   relate to my co-workers.  However, lucky for us not all start-ups are
   founded by 20-somethings who view us old geezers as grand parents.
   Al

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