RE: Too old?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Susan Hogarth wrote: 
 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > ...
> > Yep, age discrimination is illegal.
> 
> [SJH] Too bad. I don't want some jerk who doesn't like 
> forty-somethings hiring me just because he *has* to. It could 
> take me months to realize I am working for someone who 
> doesn't want me there!
> 
> - Susan (who is not asking the government to bully anyone 
> into hiring her)

I've been catching up on this interesting thread, and I nominate Susan's
post as best of the bunch. Bravo! 

I was amused by the people who declared that they wouldn't want to work
in a place that discrimated based on age, but then described what they
did to conceal their age. Why?? 

Richard (well into my forty-teens)


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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