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Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com)
Friday the Huffington Post wrote that "Ageism runs rampant through Silicon Valley, where older workers are frequently overlooked for jobs." They ran tips from the man who recruited Tim Cook for Apple, who pointed out that it's difficult and expensive to recruit new talent, urging businesses to "stop seeing workforce diversity as a good deed; it's good business."
And earlier this month The Observer ran an article by Dan Lyons, a writer for HBO's "Silicon Valley," who shared his perspective on ageism from his time at HubSpot. Their CEO actively cultivated an age imbalance, bragging that he was "trying to build a culture specifically to attract and retain Gen Y'ers," because, "in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated."
Meanwhile, Slashdot reader OffTheLip writes: Information technology is a young business in comparison to many other industries but one of the few where older workers are not valued for their institutional knowledge... As a recently retired techie I experienced this firsthand, both as an older worker, and earlier in my career [as] one who didn't see the value in older workers. As Lyons states, older workers are good business.
What are your thoughts? And have you experienced ageism?
Meanwhile, Slashdot reader OffTheLip writes: Information technology is a young business in comparison to many other industries but one of the few where older workers are not valued for their institutional knowledge... As a recently retired techie I experienced this firsthand, both as an older worker, and earlier in my career [as] one who didn't see the value in older workers. As Lyons states, older workers are good business.
What are your thoughts? And have you experienced ageism?
I haven't experienced it, but I'm also not a useless old feeb with a foot in the grave.
With the amount of angry whitebeards inhabiting /., we can expect a totally calm and reasonable discussion of the topic.
I'll show you ageism, you little shits. If I have to get out of this chair, somebody's gonna cry.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Being an old white male means your life must be perfect. Please report to your nearest university campus for reeducation.
6 digits? What are you, 22? You have no idea....
When I got my ID (before Y2K) you could still browse the web with a modem, and a dollar would just about buy you a gallon of gas. We were in the middle of Clinton's "I did not have sex..." scandal (which, ultimately, nobody cared about anyway). Every woman in America was watching Titanic, and every man in America was saying "of course I'd like to see Titanic with you again honey!" with as much sincerity as they could muster. The Dow Jones was skyrocketing through 10,000 thanks to the dot-com boom, which was aptly named because boy did it go 'boom'. And speaking of bombs, The Phantom Menace came out and became the highest grossing Star Wars film ever, which was also appropriate as that film was (is) a gross betrayal of everything good in Star Wars. You could still watch actual videos on MTV (apparently, 2016 is the new 1999). And you measured your computer in Mhz and megabytes.
Pshaw! Get out of here with your "6 digit user IDs" flim-flam tallywhack, and while you're at it, get off my lawn too! You kids these days.