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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)
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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)
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>
>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.

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                      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.