Agreed, here in Boston this doesn't seem to be a major issue. Maybe once in a while with small startups that are staffed entirely by 20 somethings but my last job was a startup and while I was a bit older than the average at the company it had an excellent spread. I now work for a large company where my experience was the key to getting the job in the first place. Maybe things will be different when I pass 50 but the devs I know who are that age still seem to get pretty solid work.
I wonder, from watching the people on here, how much of this age discrimination takes place in the bay area (though I had no trouble getting interest from major companies in the valley) or if its an IT vs development thing (though again, I know IT pros in their late 40s who are doing quite well).
And the vast majority of the workforce. The fact that the poster asks for 40 years alone indicates a millennial. I don't plan on working for another 40 years if i can avoid it.
Same in Boston. I had 3 job offers when I was looking back in October and got a very significant raise from my previous position. I remember 2002, this is not a rough job market at all.
No, as the summary stated its mostly due to layoffs from large floundering companies... of course this is only about layoffs and doesn't take into account any new hiring which may or may not outpace the layoffs.
Thats true but they were also used as a club.... that, along with the collusion with the major media outlets (providing access in return for not covering Bernie, always displaying the electoral count with super delegates to make people feel like voting for him was hopeless and providing Hillary with the questions to a debate ahead of time).
If super delegates didn't exist at least part of that collusion would have been considerably less effective and we might have had a different outcome... and of course that doesn't even get into the question of voter suppression and the mysterious access that each campaign had to each others data due to a system put in place by Hillary's supporters.
Everything about that primary stunk to high heaven but we already knew that.
If they act now they get pence in office for a nice long time and there is plenty of time for the country to forget about Trump before the midterms. If you are worried that his lack of popularity and these scandals and all these pissed off constituents in town hall meetings might result in you losing your position, or your party losing its majority, you might consider acting.
Wait too long and the midterms will loom large and who knows what Trump might be up to. Its a tricky question and I can't put myself in the shoe's of the republican senators but if keeping Trump in place looks like it might cost them the majority in the senate they will have to move.
Yeah but anyone can join the union right? Its not like its a barrier to employment, so you can't look at someone who isn't currently in the union and say "well at least that guy can't take my job" because he can just join up.
Human contact is extremely important and its difficult to maintain a close and intimate relationship with someone without the reinforcement of sex, its kind of built into our brain chemistry. Now if both partners are of a low sex drive variety then maybe its workable, you find other ways to be intimate and close but if one partner wants sex and the other is un-interested it can create a much more serious issue. This is only made worse when compounded by the gender stereotype that men want sex all the time... if its the man with a low or non existent sex drive it can create even more tension in the relationship. Ultimately this can cause the relationship to fail and leave the partner with low sex drive feeling like its not worth it to try to engage with someone else... which keeps them from the intimacy and contact that, as a human, they still require.
Its nearly impossible to hire good engineers where I live despite the fact that there are a ton of them, because they all have excellent jobs. Maybe there is a surplus elsewhere in the country but unless you are willing to move here that doesn't do me a whole lot of good.
If all these extra skilled workers were willing to move where the jobs are (and yes, its more expensive to live here) then maybe that would solve the issue, but I dont see many resumes from Peoria.
I think there is a lack of mobility in the workforce that does contribute to the problem.
how will that result in more STEM students just by reducing the number of kids who go to school? If we want to increase that number we should be making sure that everyone who can excel in this area, goes into it. That mean increasing interest in these areas of study. One vastly untapped area for this would be women going into STEM.
As for liberal arts requirements, there are plenty of technical schools you could go to if you didn't want to take non technical classes.
It was once legal to own slaves and illegal to help them escape from their masters. It was never right to own slaves and it was right to help them get to freedom.
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so IT folks should be paid less than burger flippers? sub 10K salaries?
Agreed, here in Boston this doesn't seem to be a major issue. Maybe once in a while with small startups that are staffed entirely by 20 somethings but my last job was a startup and while I was a bit older than the average at the company it had an excellent spread. I now work for a large company where my experience was the key to getting the job in the first place. Maybe things will be different when I pass 50 but the devs I know who are that age still seem to get pretty solid work.
I wonder, from watching the people on here, how much of this age discrimination takes place in the bay area (though I had no trouble getting interest from major companies in the valley) or if its an IT vs development thing (though again, I know IT pros in their late 40s who are doing quite well).
Even if it is done in house the patents that the tech industry can create now can help them have a nice cut of that pie.
Yeah but it would be way cheeper to pirate a copy uploaded by someone who rented it and cracked the DRM.
Like work is a biological imperative.
And the vast majority of the workforce. The fact that the poster asks for 40 years alone indicates a millennial. I don't plan on working for another 40 years if i can avoid it.
Same in Boston. I had 3 job offers when I was looking back in October and got a very significant raise from my previous position. I remember 2002, this is not a rough job market at all.
But context gets in the way of panic and outrage
No, as the summary stated its mostly due to layoffs from large floundering companies... of course this is only about layoffs and doesn't take into account any new hiring which may or may not outpace the layoffs.
Thats true but they were also used as a club.... that, along with the collusion with the major media outlets (providing access in return for not covering Bernie, always displaying the electoral count with super delegates to make people feel like voting for him was hopeless and providing Hillary with the questions to a debate ahead of time).
If super delegates didn't exist at least part of that collusion would have been considerably less effective and we might have had a different outcome... and of course that doesn't even get into the question of voter suppression and the mysterious access that each campaign had to each others data due to a system put in place by Hillary's supporters.
Everything about that primary stunk to high heaven but we already knew that.
And of course we should let them take over whatever eastern European countries they want.
Trump does
If they act now they get pence in office for a nice long time and there is plenty of time for the country to forget about Trump before the midterms. If you are worried that his lack of popularity and these scandals and all these pissed off constituents in town hall meetings might result in you losing your position, or your party losing its majority, you might consider acting.
Wait too long and the midterms will loom large and who knows what Trump might be up to. Its a tricky question and I can't put myself in the shoe's of the republican senators but if keeping Trump in place looks like it might cost them the majority in the senate they will have to move.
What color is the sky in your world?
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Doesn't look like its 5 bucks an hour to me.... Seems like quite a bit less. It took less than a minute to find this.
Yeah but anyone can join the union right? Its not like its a barrier to employment, so you can't look at someone who isn't currently in the union and say "well at least that guy can't take my job" because he can just join up.
Or he just think the working conditions aren't very good and things he and his fellow workers should engage in collective bargaining.
Code isn't math
No complaints about PCs using controllers though?
Human contact is extremely important and its difficult to maintain a close and intimate relationship with someone without the reinforcement of sex, its kind of built into our brain chemistry. Now if both partners are of a low sex drive variety then maybe its workable, you find other ways to be intimate and close but if one partner wants sex and the other is un-interested it can create a much more serious issue. This is only made worse when compounded by the gender stereotype that men want sex all the time... if its the man with a low or non existent sex drive it can create even more tension in the relationship. Ultimately this can cause the relationship to fail and leave the partner with low sex drive feeling like its not worth it to try to engage with someone else... which keeps them from the intimacy and contact that, as a human, they still require.
Its nearly impossible to hire good engineers where I live despite the fact that there are a ton of them, because they all have excellent jobs. Maybe there is a surplus elsewhere in the country but unless you are willing to move here that doesn't do me a whole lot of good.
If all these extra skilled workers were willing to move where the jobs are (and yes, its more expensive to live here) then maybe that would solve the issue, but I dont see many resumes from Peoria.
I think there is a lack of mobility in the workforce that does contribute to the problem.
how will that result in more STEM students just by reducing the number of kids who go to school? If we want to increase that number we should be making sure that everyone who can excel in this area, goes into it. That mean increasing interest in these areas of study. One vastly untapped area for this would be women going into STEM.
As for liberal arts requirements, there are plenty of technical schools you could go to if you didn't want to take non technical classes.
Maybe you shouldn't let HR make your hiring decisions.
Its pretty clear that you don't know what a Nazi is. Perhaps you should read up on WWII and the Holocaust and get back to me.
Don't confuse "legal" and "right" .
It was once legal to own slaves and illegal to help them escape from their masters. It was never right to own slaves and it was right to help them get to freedom.