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> The implicit agism and the shere fuck-you irrelevance of my circumstances 35 years ago just stops me in my tracks every time. > Are you hiring me or 16-year
by znpy 3y ago
> The implicit agism and the shere fuck-you irrelevance of my circumstances 35 years ago just stops me in my tracks every time.
> Are you hiring me or 16-year-old me? Well then.
i wonder what is preventing you from just lying. like, how are they going to confirm or deny what you're saying ?
Frankly it seems like a way to have something they can use to reject you with something that's hard to debate against.
- dcminter 3y ago> i wonder what is preventing you from just lying... Integrity? Also the self-interest of not wanting to work with liars and yes-men. Basically the same reason I don't lie during the rest of an interview process.
- ghaff 3y agoThat seems like a really terrible way to start off with a new company. But then I feel like that way about most of the scuzzy things some percentage of people have no qualms about doing if they can get off with them (e.g. working two full-time jobs at the same time).
- _ea1k 3y agoI had the same thought. People have rightly pointed out the age bias, but there's also an implicit bias toward embellishment. People who are comfortable doing that can post lots of positive and mostly unverifiable things there. Then again, we don't know how they evaluate this. Maybe overly positive unverifiable statements are actually negatives for them.