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A comment on Google's age-hate. Parent comment

Re:Google's age-hate by rickmb on Monday January 30, 2012 @04:57PM (#3530816)
If an employee doesn't fit in with the culture just because of their age, than the culture is the problem, not the employee.

You've just described something that actually is pure age discrimination: maintaining a company culture in which there is no room for people above a certain age, regardless of their skill, knowledge, personality and other qualifications.

Edit: Just to clarify: nobody "doesn't work well with everyone else" because of their age. That is a bogus argument, a clear sign of age discrimination.

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Re:Google's age-hate by RandallBrown on Monday January 30, 2012 @05:53PM (#3530972)
I was trying to say what if this person, who happens to be older, get's fired for "not fitting in with the company culture". What is there to stop the person from saying "My age is the reason I didn't fit in and that's why they fired me".
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