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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by dpark on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:45AM (#18383174)
The year off isn’t the fluffy unicorn bit. The fluffy unicorn bit is that you think your choices should have no consequences.

If you want to take a decade off work, you certainly have that right. But that doesn’t mean employers should pretend that you have an extra decade of experience, just as your choice to forgo a degree doesn’t mean an employer should pretend you earned a doctorate.

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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by C1sc0cat on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:51PM (#18384317)
Ah so discriminating against the posh kid who took a "Gap Yah" is ok now.

Presumably we should discriminate against all 4 year graduates as they took an extra year to graduate's who do it in 3.

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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by dpark on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:00PM (#18385419)
> Presumably we should discriminate against all 4 year graduates as they took an extra year to graduate's who do it in 3.

We do. All things being equal, the person hired a year earlier will have higher pay. As they should, since they have an extra year of experience. Assuming equal candidates, the one with more experience will do a better job (second system syndrome notwithstanding).

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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by Frondo on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:08AM (#18391057)
What's absolutely amazing to me is that one of the biggest complaints about unions you see is how pay is tied to seniority; the worker who's there the longest gets the most pay, not the one who "deserves" the most pay.

And here people are arguing the exact same thing!!! One extra year of time working means higher pay!

That's exactly what a lot of union pay scales are structured like, but that's evil unions; this is somehow just right???

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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by dpark on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:48PM (#18394309)
You’re misunderstanding. Rewarding for merit will bias towards higher pay for experience. More experience will in general lead to higher merit and thus higher pay.

Also HN, despite the meme, is not a hive mind. Some here are in support of unions and don’t consider them evil.

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