RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness

Subject: RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>, "TECHWR-L Writing" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:14:14 -0600

Sarah Stegall wrote:

> Maybe this has happened to you. Maybe not. Are we going to argue about
> whose experience is more valid? Silly waste of time. I'm not going to
> change my opinion that age discrimination is rampant and nearly
> ineradicable in Silicon Valley. Smart employers will hire experienced,
> mature older workers; fools will not. As in any field of endeavor, the
> fools outnumber the smart folks.
>
> My advice to job seekers remains: try not to let on how old you are
when
> you interview for a job.

So you can be hired by fools? I prefer not to work for fools. :-)

BTW, I'm one of the oldest people at least at this location of my
company (~120). Not only am I significantly older than my boss, I'm
older than my boss's boss's boss. And probably beyond that.

Hey, Chris -- my lottery number was 351. Beat that! :-)

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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References:
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Erik Hare
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Peter Neilson
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: McLauchlan, Kevin
Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Sarah Stegall
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Leonard C. Porrello
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Sarah Stegall
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Leonard C. Porrello
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Sarah Stegall

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