Current Events > Please get the boomers out of the job market

(+) Yeah! (+)

I don't mean older employees

I mean the boomer hiring managers/CEOs/etc.,

They're stuck in the past and insist on these archaic hiring practices

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Sounds ageist

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Don't worry, Father Time is on the case.

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darkprince45 posted...

Sounds ageist

Shut up

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darkprince45 posted...

Sounds ageist

No more ageist than the arguments for age limits on politicians

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How many "Boomers" are there still in the workforce?

Boomers are people born between 1945-55.

That would make most Boomers in their late 60's- mid 70's

If I'm still working at 67, something went horribly wrong in my life.

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They're retiring in troves where have you been?
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voldothegr8 posted...

They're retiring in troves where have you been?

They need to retire faster and harder

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bigblu89 posted...

How many "Boomers" are there still in the workforce?

Boomers are people born between 1945-55.

That would make most Boomers in their late 60's- mid 70's

If I'm still working at 67, something went horribly wrong in my life.

They're not necessarily "working", but many of them still have a great deal of input in how companies are run

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bigblu89 posted...

How many "Boomers" are there still in the workforce?

Boomers are people born between 1945-55.

That would make most Boomers in their late 60's- mid 70's

If I'm still working at 67, something went horribly wrong in my life.

You have no idea how many people have the "Work until I die" mentality.

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bigblu89 posted...

How many "Boomers" are there still in the workforce?

Boomers are people born between 1945-55.

That would make most Boomers in their late 60's- mid 70's

If I'm still working at 67, something went horribly wrong in my life.

Usually it's more like born between 1945-1963ish.
Gen X 1964-1983
Millennial 1984-2000.

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Name one of thee hiring practices?

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Pretty sure most places have moved on to the new style of hiring at this point.

Have an algorithm dumpster 90% of the applications

Then Google search the remaining 10% and call those with the best social media pages in for an interview.

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sabrestorm posted...

Name one of thee hiring practices?

For real.

I have an odd suspicion that TC is just upset he can't get a job after countless HR Departments deem them un-hirable based on the social media presence.

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sabrestorm posted...

Name one of thee hiring practices?

Well for starters, an unwillingness to streamline the application process to make it quick and painless for the applicant (i.e., uploading a resume, only to have to spend another 15 minutes filling out a form with the exact same information present on the resume)

Pointless personality tests that everybody bullshits their way through and have been shown to be racist/ableist/sexist/etc.,

Drug tests

Just to name a few

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Get them out of politics too.

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bigblu89 posted...

For real.

I have an odd suspicion that TC is just upset he can't get a job after countless HR Departments deem them un-hirable based on the social media presence.

I'm at my office job now, but nice try

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Southernfatman posted...

Get them out of politics too.

Word

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Well for starters, an unwillingness to streamline the application process to make it quick and painless for the applicant (i.e., uploading a resume, only to have to spend another 15 minutes filling out a form with the exact same information present on the resume)

Pointless personality tests that everybody bullshits their way through and have been shown to be racist/ableist/sexist/etc.,

Drug tests

Just to name a few

Okay yeah, the first two, I'll give you, but what's the problem with drug tests?

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Eh, they are killing themselves off pretty quick with COVID.

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I miss the days of someone asking me when i can start then giving me an application after i was already at work

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I'm at my office job now, but nice try

Oh, so you're dicking around on some video game website while on the clock.

No wonder no one will hire you.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Well for starters, an unwillingness to streamline the application process to make it quick and painless for the applicant (i.e., uploading a resume, only to have to spend another 15 minutes filling out a form with the exact same information present on the resume)

Pointless personality tests that everybody bullshits their way through and have been shown to be racist/ableist/sexist/etc.,

Drug tests

Just to name a few

You do know those are all personality test to see how complaint you're willing to be to get the job.

The redundancy of the Resume/Application process is part of the test.

The fact that you complain about it is a failure on your part.

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I seriously doubt it's 70-somethings creating the random bullshit job qualifications where a janitor needs a college degree, and a software developer needs five years experience in a platform that's existed for two.

bigblu89 posted...

Boomers are people born between 1945-55.

There's no consensus but it's more like 1946-1964. Generation demographics are usually grouped in 15+ year ranges. So we're mostly talking about people around 60. There's plenty of them still in the workforce.

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Pro-tip: If anyone is to blame for the current state of the workforce today, it's Gen X. Boomers are for the most part irrelevant these days

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NoxObscuras posted...

Okay yeah, the first two, I'll give you, but what's the problem with drug tests?

They're ineffective (since they only do a good job at detecting specifically marijuana usage), expensive, an invasion of privacy and it arbitrarily disqualifies good candidates.

It's also possible for a non-user to be disqualified based on a false positive.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

I seriously doubt it's 70-somethings creating the random bullshit job qualifications where a janitor needs a college degree, and a software developer needs five years experience in a platform that's existed for two.

That's a whole nother issue entirely. That usually boils down to incompetent/unknowledgeable HR.

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Op slacking off on gfaqs instead of working

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darkprince45 posted...

Op slacking off on gfaqs instead of working

Lol all I'm doing is clearing out an email inbox. Super tedious

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