Comment Disparate Impact (Score 1) 139
Unfortunately, disparate impact can change that statement.
Unfortunately, disparate impact can change that statement.
You are disposable. There will always be another one just like you that they can hire. They can get a dozen resumes with a single call.
Only if citizens are not given their proper prioritization above non-citizens.
That's if they don't just get someone on a H1B visa.
That's an even bigger problem since it presumes that a US citizen is never competent enough.
I am running my own business these days. but several years ago (2008-2012) I was working for an Israeli start up and was enjoying myself. They appreciated the life-long experience gained during dozens if not hundreds of software projects big and small.
Exception case of someone doing well in a unstable environment designed to be bad for most - versus a system of good pay & security that is better for most.
So, I would say consider setting up your own company and doing independent consulting. That way you can just help companies out when they need it and continue to stay on the technical side of things. Depending on what your skills are, your rate as an independent consultant will probably exceed what you would make going into management anyway.
Not only do you get to deal with the increased costs (which claw back any increases), you also have an increased lack of stability for when things go wrong (which they will).
I've been doing nothing but contracts for almost 4 years now and almost every week a recruiter or someone is asking me if I'm available for a contract. I haven't noticed any age discrimination yet. I've seen guys in their 70's still working contracts along with me and doing fine.
You're disposable, so they like you - which is the problem at hand.
You get the rarity of job security with the budget of a large company.
Are you an in-house programmer now? Move to a company that services clients.
Which means that you move to something with the stability of a tsunami-hit nuclear reactor, which is none.
Or if you currently provide services to clients, move the other direction.
The saner move.
Any reasonable person would be suspicious that age discrimination does not exist.
FTFY.
True, a young engineer will never get rejected for knowing only COBOL - but there's no excuse for a graying one to have that problem either. If anything, good older engineers should be *more* up-to-date because they can learn new technologies faster (having learned so many before), and are more abreast of useful trends (because their experience lets them discern fads from real evolution).
Which only justifies a greater push to kill off age discrimination to allow competent people their day. If it really was about competence, a whole lot of problems in finding people would simply not exist (especially with guest workers).
You presume that all should have that ability while not recognizing the good value of those that do not.
There are a lot of public employees in Detroit, Michigan who believed that too. Hell, it was in their State Consitution that their pension promises must be 'honest'.
Thank the Mackinac Institute/ALEC-run government for the final push. Not only did they establish one line of control of Detroit (state takeover that effectively nullified elections), but that they rushed through a bankruptcy filing to gain another. That, and the entities that take over the state call themselves *conservatives* for doing that.
Only if your state isn't under the control of ALEC(read: MI/WI/IN/KS/PA and lighter controls under OH). Such states have gone all out against those working for state agencies.
Take your extortion game and suck it.
Either way, it means fancy golfcarts for most of us, while the policymaking environmentalist nomenklatura drive whatever they want.
Yes, there's a problem with that.
(Not sure if parent poster is serious, but oh well)
It might be good to encourage the growth and accessibility to Dayton's remaining/growing industries instead of discouraging it. Unless you've been oblivious to the events of the last 10-15 years in the Miami Valley, you would notice that Dayton is missing some high-profile employers. Sinclair's program would do well to give greater access to the aerospace industry for people not fortunate enough to immediately get accepted to the University of Dayton or Wright State.
Besides, you'd have to call the University of Dayton's aerospace partnership with GE (the Episcenter) "liberal" as well.
If you're happy in Houston doing work with the oil industry (or even aerospace), I have nothing against you. I only speak of this for seeing what Dayton has been (an area led by manufacturing/electronics companies like NCR and GM) and what it will become (an area led by employers in technologically-intensive industries).
Happiness is twin floppies.