[quote=yamashi] . . . BG, not sure why you didn’t get the job, nor what you applied for, but I’m sure there was a very good reason other than age. But if you feel that is the reason to help you sleep better than go for it! Personally, our generation doesn’t care about how you look or how you dress or any of that like your generation may have. Maybe in the position you were applying for it really didn’t matter. Maybe she dressed that way but she just graduated from Harvard Law at the top of her class. Maybe you were asking for too much…so much so that it was not even a break-even proposition. There are so many variables that are at play here that your points are not worth discussing.[/quote]I haven’t interviewed in a few years, yamashi, but it wasn’t just one job I interviewed for … it was several. I sat in the reception area with one or more of my “competition” so I had an idea of who that was.
You have a point about the law school graduate. Law firms will take a “green” law school graduate to do paralegal work over a paralegal with a lot of experience. Law school graduates (whether they have their bar card, or not) WILL work as paralegal because there are not enough attorney positions to go around and haven’t been for at least 15 years. The country is glutted with law school graduates. Part of the reason is that many attorneys stay with their firms long past the age of 65, taking up an “attorney” spot. I know I was discriminated against when (several years ago, before the ACA) I was asked in three different interviews, “How has your health been? and “Have you been healthy, lately?” They wanted to know how much it was going to cost them to provide me with health insurance (small firms) before deciding whether to make a job offer to me … or not. One of the interviewers even took out a clipboard in my interview and started adding up salary and benefits in front of me to see what the total would be! It was uncalled for because I am fit, dress well, present well and wear a size 6-8. I can assure you that they don’t ask those kinds of questions to a 32 year-old in a job interview. And why should I compensate by telling them that I don’t want or need a health policy when they are providing it to their younger workforce?
Of course, you millenials really have no idea about how overt discrimination feels because you have never experienced it … yet. That day will come and it might be sooner than you think.
