Re: Confessions of a CoBOL programmer

In article <655fquF2dfn1uU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

What's wrong with programmers over 50?

That depends on one's criteria for 'wrong', Mr Gunshannon. Some people
might say that the ability to look a Corner Office Idiot in the eye and
say 'Your 'wonderful innovation' is something I saw at (othercorp) a
couple of decades back; it failed then because of (etc)' is something so
very Wrong that such a person should not be employed by the organisation.

Other people might say 'a person under 35 increases the company's
insurance premium by ($n) less than a person over 45; hiring Just Another
Programmer who'll cost the company more is wrong.'

And, of course there's always what was mentioned earlier in the thread,
along the lines of 'older workers have more experience, people with more
experience cost more money, spending more money is wrong.'

On the other hand... if Everyone Knows that hiring older workers is a
good, profitable manuever, benefitting both the worker and the
organisation so that the organisation gains enough from the worker's
experience that the extra amount spent is well-rewarded...

.... then the Free Market would not have required anyone to even *think* of
passing laws like the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967
or the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 or the amendment of the ADEA in 1986
or... need I continue? There's so very much seen as 'wrong' about hiring
and retaining older workers that cases go to the United States Supreme
Court about it.

DD

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