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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by PhasmaFelis on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:13AM (#15977936)
So you met one guy with a lot of chronic health problems and assume that everyone else in his age group is similar?

Or if not then I'm not sure what your point is. People who miss a lot of work and make excuses for being belligerent don't make the greatest employees, but there's not as much correlation as you think between that and age.

I feel like you really have given a clear answer to combatentropy's question "why do employers discriminate against older people", but it's maybe not the answer you thought you were giving.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by nurettin on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:14PM (#15985222)
It is the other way around. I didn't understand why companies would even consider not hiring old/experienced software engineers until I met him.

And now I am on a diet and quit smoking :-)

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