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Weigookin74
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highstreet
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| Did you honestly believe it only happens here? |
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alongway
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| Did you honestly believe it only happens here? |
Didn't you know? Korea is where all the bad comes to congregate. Our home countries are the lands of milk and honey..
the streets are paved with gold, people are courteous, no one ever says a bad word, and always treats strangers with the utmost kindness and respect. |
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Dodge7
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| alongway wrote: |
| highstreet wrote: |
| Did you honestly believe it only happens here? |
Didn't you know? Korea is where all the bad comes to congregate. Our home countries are the lands of milk and honey..
the streets are paved with gold, people are courteous, no one ever says a bad word, and always treats strangers with the utmost kindness and respect. |
No truer words have ever been spoken. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| alongway wrote: |
| highstreet wrote: |
| Did you honestly believe it only happens here? |
Didn't you know? Korea is where all the bad comes to congregate. Our home countries are the lands of milk and honey..
the streets are paved with gold, people are courteous, no one ever says a bad word, and always treats strangers with the utmost kindness and respect. |
Ha ha. No truer words spoken. Age discrimination happens back home, it's just less blunt. Only advantage back home is that it's illegal to ask age until after hired. So, if you look younger, you can play it up. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| alongway wrote: |
| highstreet wrote: |
| Did you honestly believe it only happens here? |
Didn't you know? Korea is where all the bad comes to congregate. Our home countries are the lands of milk and honey..
the streets are paved with gold, people are courteous, no one ever says a bad word, and always treats strangers with the utmost kindness and respect. |
Ha ha. No truer words spoken. Age discrimination happens back home, it's just less blunt. Only advantage back home is that it's illegal to ask age until after hired. So, if you look younger, you can play it up. |
and trivial to figure out if you're staring at someone's resume with dates on it for things like education..someone who waited until they were early or mid twenties to go to university might be able to throw them off a couple years, but someone whose university graduation date is 20 years ago isn't fooling anyone. |
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ttompatz
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Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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That must make it real easy for us who have returned to uni on multiple occasions to add more "wallpaper".
Just use the most recent instead of the earliest degree parchment and you take 30 years off of your age. 
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alongway
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| Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:27 am Post subject: |
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That must make it real easy for us who have returned to uni on multiple occasions to add more "wallpaper".
Just use the most recent instead of the earliest degree parchment and you take 30 years off of your age.
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Not unless you look 30 years younger than you really are..
I expect most seasoned HR people can look at a person's resume, see the work history, the education history and peg their age within a year or two at most.
Yes, potentially if someone who was 40 and looked incredibly young, and had gone to university late for some reason, they might be able to shave a few years off their age guess, but that's a pretty unique scenario. If someone looks very young, but went to university or otherwise trained straight out of school, there is no faking that unless you're going to lie about your graduation year. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
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| Start wearing the big hats, shades, and sun cream, people. |
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silkhighway
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Location: Canada
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I'm not going to condone age discrimination, but it takes on a different form than in Korea. People who age discriminate in North America aren't do it for aesthetic reasons, they don't care how you "look" as long as you're healthy, they're worried that someone who is older will be inflexible and defiant in a lower-level position.
If someone in their 50's "recently" (last 10-20 years) attended university, showed himself to be versatile in different careers, than that person won't have any more trouble finding work than someone 20 years younger than him.
It's the guy who's 53 and finds himself for the first time since he was 19 looking for a new line of work that will have difficulty with age discrimination. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I look 15 years younger than I really am, so...
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KimchiNinja
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Location: Gangnam
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"Worker's Over 50 are the New Unemployables".
Yeah but if you have to work after 50, you should have planned better, so you didn't have to. |
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edwardcatflap
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| Yeah but if you have to work after 50, you should have planned better, so you didn't have to. |
So what percentage of the population of your country, for example, do you think can afford to retire at 50? And you think all the others who can't are incompetent?  |
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KimchiNinja
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| Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah but if you have to work after 50, you should have planned better, so you didn't have to. |
So what percentage of the population of your country, for example, do you think can afford to retire at 50? And you think all the others who can't are incompetent? |
I would not necessarily think incompetent the right word, unless their profession was finance.
It just requires thought and planning. Most people spend everything they make, even if they make $300K USD. Better to save it all, then just work for the fun of it, if you feel like working. |
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| It just requires thought and planning. Most people spend everything they make, even if they make $300K USD. Better to save it all, then just work for the fun of it, if you feel like working |
Back in the real world most people live from pay check to pay check providing the minimum (food, clothes and accommodation etc..)for them and their families and are lucky if they can afford to save enough for their retirement at 65. |
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