When they bring up your age during the interview process in a negative way 🏃⛳

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Respond back “Glad I recorded this one for my lawyer. She’s gonna have some fun with this one.”

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Okay, I thought you meant as an “older” person. You’ll only get older, but an older CD can’t get any younger. You’ll be fine, and this is a young person’s industry. This feels akin to a white man complaining about women being hired over him.

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Yeah senior copywriter was using a totally different example as an analogy

Yeah - uhhh that’s eefffffffed up 🚩🚩🚩

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“You’re telling me old people have the same rights as young people?!”
—Michael Gary Scott

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OP: How do they even know your age? Are you saying they asked you how old you are?

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I was interviewing and mentioned it was my birthday on the weekend, so the interviewer asked how old I was (I'm really open and transparent). She had no issues and was impressed with where I was at my age.

It was the founder in the next round who'd heard of my age who said it was a concern that I wouldn't be able to be a good storyteller and leader as a result. There were some other red flags that popped up in the process, so I dodged a bullet.

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Lawyer up

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During an interview someone said to me, “this is a good role for someone your age” and I was so taken aback…anyway that agency was the worst and I should have known.

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Whoa. That’s wild, and terrible. Sorry that happened. Screw that place / person.

Too old or too young?

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