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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by jpindar on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:54AM (#19509388)
>I also wonder how much of the perceived age discrimination is due to expectations of an ever-increasing salary.

Expectations on whose part? Based on what I read here on HN, many employers don't want to even interview older applicants because they are just so sure that any older person is going to demand too much money.

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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by manfredo on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:00AM (#19509402)
Granted, the reaction of my older co-worker has demonstrated (albeit in only one instance) that this assumption does hold true.
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