Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

Post by tabtab » Wed, May 30, 2018, 3:31 PM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #342

tabtab wrote: post #338

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Maybe you are CTO and I'm not because my brain is not fast enough to keep up. Yes, a lot of it is rehashes of old things, but I keep inter-confusing the old incarnations with the new ones when coding. You can't cross-confuse 2 things if you never met one of them. Plus, its hard to keep enthusiasm up for the 500th reinvention of the wheel. Maybe I'll reinvent stronger coffee; call it "Covfefe 2.0", or "Blockchain Covf…

Yeah I see what you mean: I have something like that; I get enthusiastic because I see people apparently solving things that annoy me. So I go and try them and find they made things worse, usually. Sometimes, however, it is really great and then we start using it.

So can our org pay yours to be our guinea-pigs? :-)

Post by paulddraper » Wed, May 30, 2018, 4:29 PM UTC

jancsika wrote: post #349

paulddraper wrote: post #270

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Once upon a time "discrimination" had positive connotations, e.g. "he has discriminating tastes". Somehow the word has been twisted to be almost exclusively negative. But show me an organization that doesn't discriminate, and I'll show you an organization of utter incompetence.

> Somehow the word has been twisted to be almost exclusively negative. Webster gives pride of place to both the transitive and intransitive definitions that could fit your "once upon a time" definition.[1] Furthermore, of the six definitions given, five are what I'd consider a trait or ability that is wholly positive to possess. Only the 2nd definition for the intransitive form has a negative connotation. > But show…

> Webster gives pride of place

In practice, discrimination has largely negative connotations https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/183093/is-there-...

> "use good judgment."

"The screening exercise _____ aggressively."

* "The screening exercise uses good judgement aggressively." Awkward.

* "The screening exercise filters aggressively." No implication that choice is based on the candidate's characteristics instead of random chance.

* "The screening exercise distinguishes aggressively". Sounds odd, plus has positive rather than neutral connotations.

* "The screening exercise differentiates aggressively " Best one, though it doesn't hint at the pass/fail nature of the distinction.

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