Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cheviot.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!santosh From: santosh@cheviot.uucp (Santosh Shrivastava) Newsgroups: net.jobs Subject: Re: Research in Reliable Distributed Computing Message-ID: <431@cheviot.uucp> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 07:26:07 EDT Article-I.D.: cheviot.431 Posted: Mon Sep 16 07:26:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 04:10:08 EDT References: <429@cheviot.uucp> <864@burl.UUCP> <1228@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: santosh@cheviot.UUCP (Santosh Shrivastava) Distribution: net Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 41 In article <1228@ihlpg.UUCP> dimario@ihlpg.UUCP (Michael J. DiMario) writes: >> In article <429@cheviot.uucp> santosh@cheviot.UUCP (Santosh Shrivastava) writes: >> > The appointments will be for the duration of three years, on the >> >standard IA salary scale: 7520- 12150 Pounds/year according to age >> >qualifications and experience... >> >>>> >> AGE?!?! You're going to seriously base a person's salary on, among other >> things, \age/ ? I sincerely hope you get NO applicants whatsoever for these >> positions, with a discriminatory attitude like that! >> >> How do you figure that age weighting on the salary? >> >> >> >> >> Seriously, if you have some set weighting of salary based on age I'd love to >> see it -- I'd be very interested (in a sick sort of way) in how it is >> implemented. >> -- >> >> The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) >> alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj >> ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj > >I concur with your view! Such attitudes and discrimination policies are >indicative with the British unrest internal and external to England. >But, it may also be typical of European hiring practises. It is discouraging >to see such views on an American net. **************************************************************** Honestly! You guys are getting worked up over nothing. Nowhere did I imply that 'to be an old person' would be a handicap. The salary algorithm works as follows: if A > B, (where '>' means older) and A and B are doing similar jobs and have similar educational qualificatios, then A is likely to be earning a bit more than B. (There can be exceptions to this, but that is how roughly the system works). Less competetive is'nt it? Whether it is descriminatory or not is a matter of what political views you have, but I do'nt think we should argue it here.