Age Discrimination

To the Editor,
New York Times

Re: Age Discrimination (July 7, 2009)

For those of us who have long ago lost count of the number of times we have experienced age discrimination, our response to the recent Supreme Court ruling is an exasperated “What’s new?”

Trying to prove “age discrimination” is tantamount to trying to prove the existence of God at an atheist’s convention. The average citizen would like to think that the “supreme” legal minds of the Court would understand that simple but painful reality.

Question: How many hundreds of thousands of highly qualified workers and job applicants holding advanced degrees, high performance records, and on the job experience have been rejected strictly because of age? Answer: All of them.

The economic cost of rejecting a more qualified worker is lower job performance which translates to lesser competitiveness. Any companies connecting the dots?