Ageism
I had an interview today to be a lab technician. The interviewer young girl . She kept telling me that their is a lot of walking with the job . I said Okay . As I was walking back to the trailer with her she made a comment You know as you age your body slows down and you can not walk as fast as you used too . I am 55 years old
I'll said. Since I'm applying for this job it's because I'm able to walk ad much as the job requires
I would likely agree that does happen, but that some ageing affects can be delayed with exercise and healthy eating
You don’t want to work here. You’d end up filling a charge of discrimination with the EEOC on age. Save yourself the trouble and keep walkin’ ! It doesn’t matter how fast.
That was saying we need younger legs or person not the experience.
She probably liked the business, and thought she could do the job and be really good at it, that would be why she would have filled out an app, could be she probably didnt know so much of the walking she would have to do could slow her down as she may have worked a similar job when she was younger.
I Am a smart A_s so my response would have been. Yes that Is what others my age have been telling me but it has not affected me yet, I guess I"m Lucky!!!!!!!!!!
I think you should have raced her. She is obviously not trained to interview and is just winging it. Sometimes you will run across people that should not be interviewing.
Shelly, are you the 55 year old or was the interviewer? If the interviewer were commenting on her own slowing down, that's not a big deal. However, if she were commenting to you about your age, that's discrimination.
Good afternoon Shelly. This kind of remark to have been said while doing a interview is inappropriate, disrespecting, and rudely made to a person who is being interviewed. I worked almost fifteen years for Walmart and I can recall correctly of several times where people above me would try to push and pressure me to try to be faster and more productive at times when I was working and it truly frustrated me when I was working as hard as I could go and on top of that I am also disabled. People need to know when to be respectable to employees and future employees.
If I were Shelly, I would have finished the interview with grace and poise and when offered the position turn it down, and tell them of my experience with my interviewer. That is unacceptable to me. That is a job that I would not want to be at.