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Subject:Re: Job market and potential age discrimination? From:Tuples -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:04:18 EDT
In a message dated 9/26/02 11:39:17 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
bwolf -at- scheidt-bachmann-usa -dot- com writes:
> So, John, what do you do when you go to a job interview and some 20
> something interviewer's jaw drops to the floor because you look like his
> grandpa? Facelifts and "Just for Men" perhaps?
I am thinking, carry a tape recorder and get him/her to admit that they only
hire the young. You can build quite a career getting turned down because of
your age and cashing those settlement checks.
Bob
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