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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by whateveracct on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:14PM (#21260967)
The opposite could easily be said. If you cannot even try to appreciate country/rap/beiber, then you probably have some mental blocks yourself :)
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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:42PM (#21261340)
My personal preference is not important when I hire someone to do a job.

All I am interested as an employer is a person's ability to do the job. The type of job I'm offering requires a person to be intelligent => I'll choose the one who likes Beethoven more than Bieber.

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by tyrust on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:08PM (#21263786)
>My personal preference is not important

>I'll choose the one who likes Beethoven more than Bieber.

But that is your personal preference.

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:19PM (#21264580)
For that matter, yes, but it is irrelevant for hiring since I'm not going to listen to music or discuss it at work. If we go to another aspect of my personal preferences, I dislike jazz, and rather indifferent to rap, but jazz beats rap for potential hires.
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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by tyrust on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:34PM (#21265285)
>it is irrelevant for hiring

>jazz beats rap for potential hires

Are you intentionally contradicting yourself?

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:13AM (#21269511)
I'm not contradicting. Read more carefully. My personal tastes in music are irrelevant when I want the better candidate of the two options. And I will choose jass fan (all other things being seemingly equal) over hiphop fan despite I don't like jazz.
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