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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by forty on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:51PM (#31125404)
> "he is over qualified" etc. Most of the times, they were more than qualified.

What's the difference between "over qualified" and "more than qualified"? ;)

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by wccrawford on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:12PM (#31125772)
The amount they'll have to pay to keep the person in the future.

They don't want someone that will leave in a year. They want them to stick around, without inflating their budget.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by mech422 on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:39PM (#31126144)
aka 'wageism'

if you don't need a rocket scientist, you don't pay for one... grunt work is grunt work.

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