[lotsofmangos]

Not necessarily.

It is amusing that after observing that older folk employed at the same company seem to be taking it easier compared to the average, ashwinaj uses this observation to partially justify age discrimination on the basis that the older people look like they are putting in less effort, when these are the same set of people who have been successful at staying with the company.

Perhaps the company actually values more relaxed people and doesn't encourage the perpetually rushed to stick around.

edit - Something that did occur to me after reading this -

there are a lot of slackers and you guessed it, they're usually (emphasis on "usually", stop trolling) older, paper pushers, "Let's have a meeting to talk about changing a line of code" people

- was to think about how much money could have been saved globally by someone like that being in the loop on the openSSL source code. It has to be in the billions by now.

[ashwinaj]

Well, you can nitpick my comment, pick outliers and twist my words (I never said I justify age discrimination - I merely said it is a fact of life) but readers here are smarter than that :)

[lotsofmangos]

You do not need to explicitly say that you support a given position to be able to make a statement that supports a given position.

The statement - "there are a lot of slackers and you guessed it, they're usually (emphasis on "usually", stop trolling) older, paper pushers" - clearly, in the plain meaning of the words, supports age discrimination without requiring any further clarification on your part, and does so even if you did not mean it to.

[ashwinaj]

Explicitly stating != implying Oh BTW, I learned this from the older folks in my company :)