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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by wadkar on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:54AM (#15976747)
> as she said, "the type of people on the other side of the table from us are different than they used to be, and they don't want to be dealing with a bunch of 65-year-old white guys. So those aren't the type of people we're looking for." That's pretty much a direct quote.

Not to defend the quote, but I wonder how else would you characterize “non-diversity” in this context? Specifically, if their current workforce composition is indeed “bunch of 60 something old white males” then how else would you express your desire to be diverse without referring to the current reality?

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by JetSetWilly on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:44AM (#15977813)
I highly doubt that this mysterious "company with a large proportion of the search engine market" is filled with 65yo white males.

In fact it would actually make them significantly more diverse if they were to hire some 65yo white males.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by tgb on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:54PM (#15982247)
You've confused the two companies that the parent was talking about. The company that wanted diversity had a contact with the 'mystery' company that has a search engine.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by kridsdale on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:22AM (#15980038)
My thought was Microsoft. There are a ton of those from back in the day still there.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by kelukelugames on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:38PM (#15980870)
I suspect Microsoft. I've heard more than one young white person complain they don't want to work with "old" people. I don't think this is a tech thing as much as an American society thing. We are too biased against older age groups.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by sharemywin on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:57AM (#15978733)
Well, if you don't want entangled in a lawsuit you dance around it better than that.
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