To find this attitude disgusting in this day and age

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My DH came home today and told me about his departments search for a colleague that is leaving. he then went on to laugh about one applicant who was 55 and female. Apparently his boss had seen her age and declared "I don't want my Mum working here".

Luckily the colleague who is being replaced was shocked by this attiutude and she told them what for before insisting that they can't discrimiate like this and to read the full CV.

Which they did.

They decided to call her for interview but found she had already been snapped up by another company.

AIBU to feel disgusted by this attitude in this day and age?

YANBU.

YANBU

That's quite upsetting that prospective employers would be judging a person based on their age before even reading the rest of their CV!
Shame on them!

YANBU at all

Am giggling a little at the phrase "in this day and age" tho. It does make you sound a little, ahem, senior

YANBU

Yeah it does make me sound a lot older than my 28 years!

YANBU happens all the time though

yanbu. does he think that after the age of 45 bills/rent etc come from a magic money tree or something.

ageism and sexism in a oner. way to go, boys.

at least they wouldn't have to worry about her taking time off work to breed.

i sat on an interview panel with two men, one of whom thought it was fine to quiz the single mother interviewing about her childcare arrangements. the children of the men we interviewed oddly didn't come up in the discussion at all.

YANBU

My aunt (60 yrs old)was a finalist for a good job as an EA. She has over 30 yrs experience as a legal secretary and is bilingual. After several interviews and speaking to friends of the hiring manager, she felt confident she was in the running for this good job after a YEAR of looking for work.

They never got back to her. She heard through the grapevine, her age was the main reason she did not get the job.

It happens a lot. Many employers think you will retire soon and/or get sick and then they will be back to square one.

You would be surprised at what goes on in the workplace. In one of my first jobs (didn't last long unsurprisingly), the managers used to read CVs out to all of us sat nearby and then laugh at what people had written.

All sorts of prejudices came out. I remember one person being described as a bible basher because they'd taken a year out to work for a christian charity.

I worked (first job, office junior) for a company where the admin staff were asked to go through CVs and weed out any that were obviously unsuitable (as in not answering any of the requirements). They regularly chucked out older men and women because they didn't want to work with them.

A company I once worked for, once rejected a woman after interview for being fat. I kid you not.

Not that it matters, but she wasn't even that fat.

Do job application forms ask peoples ages? I thought this was stopped.

It was her CV not an application form so I guess her age was on there by her choice but it's still not on.

Even if her age wasn't on it, they'd still be able to work it out. Your age is very difficult to cover up.

I don't think anyone is going to say YABU.

My boss once had reservations about a candidate who had interviewed really well, because he had dark hair and olive skin and could have had 'Latino origins' - and of course they have fiery temperaments and tend to fly off the handle without notice. He also discriminated against people with regional accents (too common) and people over 45.

YANBU. That's why you shouldn't put your age on your CV. It's not needed.

The same is staffed at a certain level, almost entirely with attractive, twenty-something women. Several of which are woefully underqualified.

I tore a strip off my boss once, we interview a lovely lass for a technician job and he started quizzing her about her childcare (she had volunteered to us she had a young child - she spotted a picture of my ds on my desk).

YANBU, OP. Oh well think of it this way, it's your DH's company's loss and the other company's gain! I hope you had strong words with your DH!

YANBU, and the government wants older people to keep working. How are they going to get jobs after being made redundant at that age with attitudes like that.

YANBU, The woman had a lucky escape though.

I worked for an organisation that didn't ask for title, first name and date of birth on the application form, to try an avoid his sort of discrimination. Unfortunately, I know at least one colleague who spent a lot of time trying to find clues about the applicants ages and gender, and then 'weeded out the old women'.