Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by Balgair on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:35PM (#15976460)

Um, what?

Like, cashflow at 50 with 3 kids is important.

Yeah, you've saved for retirement at ~65ish, but you have 2 kids in college with one on the way up, plus a mortgage, plus just regular life stuff. That's not an unreasonable scenario at all.

Like, do you live in a first world nation? Honestly, the paradigm changes a lot in the 3rd world and your confusion would be more appropriate in Chad or something.

(In Chad, average age of first birth is 18, so you'd reasonably be a grand parent by 50, plus cost of living is very low)

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by user5994461 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:27PM (#15980769)

I live in a first world nation. College education is free, allegedly.

If you have kids before your thirties, they will all be +25 when you are 55. They most likely finished college, they probably left the family home.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by Balgair on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:42PM (#15980912)

In the US college is NOT free, and that's 330 million people living here.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by user5994461 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:11PM (#15995393)

Just because your life turned to having no home and no pension doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by talmand on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:36AM (#16015773)

I believe that was exactly my point.

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