On Friday 23 April 2004 3:18 pm, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote: > Why not? The computing field *should* not be age-centric so long as one has > the capability to assimilate knowledge.
I tend to ignore irrelevant qualifications (gender, age, even required degrees) if i'm interested in a position. I say, in general, if people are interested, they should go ahead and apply. If the company is doctrinaire about their illogical qualifications, then they were probably not worth working for anyway. or working there would be a pain, and pain that isn't directly due to work (but instead is due to personal or cultural maladjustments in the work environment) is to be avoided. I say, apply anyway. If they let their idiot qualifications rule their hiring decisions, then they will deserve what they get. > Me, am 30 (and a :newbie: at that) and I wouldn't have any qualms > taking orders from a younger person if he/she happens to be my > boss (basta ba he/she doesn't ask me to do anything out of my > job description =D). yeah, but in the philippines there are a lot of people with cultural hangups about that, or like that. we're not going to change those hangups very quickly. nor are we going to be able to force those people to fix their buggy behavior until and unless a regulatory environment exists that specifically targets and penalizes that kind of discrimination. so we'll have to work individually, and within our own families and organizations, to educate ourselves and others. > I guess that's my peeve against companies that have age requirements: what > happens to those who are "over-aged" but are just as competent? not their problem. and the law says nothing about it. the overaged will just have to figure out a way to survive. they could leverage their connections and experience and build their own business. or they could go somewhere where discrimination is illegal. or they could apply anyway, ignoring the ignorant qualifications and maybe even get hired by someone enlightened enough to see their quality. > I think we have the advantage here in IT to break that culture of > 'age-centrism' and base qualifications on merit (whatever happened > to that as a basic gauge for competence?). i agree. and IT is nice because it's much harder to fake competence here than in other fields. so it's actually possible to make a sort of rational hiring decision. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
