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Thanks, appreciate qualifying a bit what is considered “old”. I am 41, but only 4 years of software development experience. So only applied for junior positions
by soneca 5y ago
Thanks, appreciate qualifying a bit what is considered “old”. I am 41, but only 4 years of software development experience. So only applied for junior positions yet. I don’t think I faced ageism applying to jobs, but I rarely applied to SV jobs (I am not from the US).
What do you think is the reasoning people having ageist behavior use to convince themselves they are not bad people? That old people won’t learn, or won’t be “tecahable”, or “manageable”? That old people will be slow somehow? What were you able to grasp from the experiences you had?
- webmaven 5y agoYou're assuming that the bias is overt and conscious. It doesn't have to be, any more than sexism, racism, or classism do. One looming issue for small orgs is a worry that an older employee will drive up the cost of the company health plan.
- Dhirvish 5y agoWhich again touches on a social issue, ageism is the entire point of this thread. The idea that any health company gets to "choose" who costs more or less is dumb. Everyone is young at some point and everyone is old at some point: Fact. So everyone should pay the same at every point throughout their career and everyone should be covered. They did surveys of people in UK about US health care on one of the late shows last year and they were dumbfounded at the basic things their system covered that ours didn't. One example, if you have a baby - which is required for the human race to continue, the health system covers it. It cost my wife and I a total of $10k to have our 2 kids in the last 6 years. That's day 1 of parenting, negative $5k in the hole: WITH HEALTHCARE FROM AN AM LAW 200 COMPANY. And I was a tech supervisor for cripes sake.