They've won! Oh wait . . . . Federal government goes from sexism to agesim.

Arby01 · 2016-06-30T12:37:00+00:00

I keep being told age-ism is a huge problem. Seeing as I work in Silicon Valley, it is supposed to be a pervasive, overwhelming issue for anyone over 35.

I'm pushing 50 and I'm not seeing it.

I see a few people who don't perform at the level they used to who think they should be able to just sit in thier job and coast until retirement.

No, I'm not going to carry you and your salary on my budget if you're not performing up to snuff. That goes for you being 25 or 55.

But the older people who're still performing don't seem to be having a problem.

I have a guy who is 58 who volunteered to move to be the sole sysadmin in a remote office. He's pretty valuable for us. We know we can trust him to manage himself without any direct supervision and communicate up everything that I or my managers need to know.

Every time we've had a similar situation with someone under 30, it has turned into a complete cluster fuck.

BDMR_lurker · 2016-06-30T13:33:05+00:00

To be fair, age is an issue on a collective level.

Boomers having been born in the same two decades (well, duh), they will retire and die in about the same two decades.

Due to the economic expansion of the '70s, boomers are the majority population in quite a lot of European firms, especially in middle management.

Replacing a massively retiring workforce won't be easy.

On the other hand, it in no way justifies discriminating against older employees.

andejoh · 2016-06-30T23:50:13+00:00

"Really? No one is telling men to go (they make up 45 per cent of the bureaucracy), or white people to go, or Ontarians, or any other potentially over-represented public service group."

Men are over represented at 45%. There must be a man shortage in Canada.

Title	They've won! Oh wait . . . . Federal government goes from sexism to agesim.
Author	dagthegnome
Upvotes	7
Comments	6
Date	June 30, 2016 11:11 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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