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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by aianus on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:09AM (#12215737)
You wouldn't attribute much of the value created by a Boeing 747 to the mechanic the maintains it, so why would you do so with the mechanics that maintain the AdWords money machine built ten years ago?
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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by eon1 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:27AM (#12215793)
I'm not really sure what to make of this analogy. Are you suggesting that the mechanic maintaining a 747 is on the same level as the design and fabrication team who built it?
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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by aianus on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @08:47AM (#12217511)
The design and fabrication team who built AdWords years ago are rich. The engineers they're hiring today at 150-200k are akin to the mechanics hired to keep it running.
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