[Discuss] Asterisk specialist sought

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> I happen to agree with your implicit agenda (gender equality and/or
> anti-sexism),

Good so far ...

> but

... uh oh...

> not your reaction.

I thought Gordon's was a measured and conditional reaction, with a
touch of humor. Rather than flat out flame someone (the firm, Bill's
friend, &/or Bil H)l, Gordon asked who was the source of the
fossilized phraseology, the job-offerer (illegal) or the email-or
(merely inadvisable), so he could new which to discount.  Bravo, well
done.

And Kudos to Bill H for (quasi-)apologizing promptly.

Since he's not protesting, your defense suggests this hits a little
close to home ?

>  The usage above is traditional,
> and language patterns are habitual and unconscious, and mostly hard to
> unlearn, especially with age.

There are many things that were still traditional when we Boomers were
born that i can't endorse with silence in this 21st Century !

It may be inappropriate to correct an octogenarian when they use a
30-year out-of-date label or euphemism (once considered politically
correct, now considered deprecatory), but if it's in the context of an
offer of employment, no, there is no age exempt from correction. If
you're in the game, you play by the rules.

I *might* not be quite as old as Bill H. (although I might be!), but I
am quite old enough to be discriminated against in employment for
being to old to learn change etc. (and run up the insurance pool costs
etc).  I resent that, and will not give someone a free pass because of
that unfair stereotype against the us the not-young.

We're professional learners of new technical terminology ... new
terminology for colleagues shouldn't be hard.

-- 
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux