Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Martin Eisenberg
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 01:22 pm

Phlip wrote:

> Donald Roby wrote:
> 
>> Chris Hills wrote:
>>
>>> However age is important. You don't usually put a 55 year old
>>> in a team of 25 year olds with a 30 year old team leader. 
>>> (ask any parent of students)
>>
>> I'm not a parent of students, so I may be missing some specific
>> expertise here, but I don't see an obvious issue where you seem
>> to think it's obvious.
>>
>> There's no reason a 55 year old can't work well with people
>> much younger or be led by people much younger, and if a 30 year
>> old team leader isn't up to leading someone older, then he's
>> really not much of a leader. 
> 
> Wow. You figured out how to say that without introducing
> friction by playing the race card. I'll make a note of it!

Forgive a continental European unaccustomed to your ways, but how 
could race possibly have entered *there*?

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

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