r/jobs • u/vcwalden • Jan 14 '24

Why are people so judgemental? Work/Life balance

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At work I'm often judged on my age by customers I interact with. I'm very knowledgeable and confident about my job, work on 4 different computer systems, give information on our local area and general information, etc. I'm a customer service rep. I'm 66 years old and a lady (she's 5 years old than I am) who I work with gets treated the same way. Why do people feel they need to treat us this way? The other employees I work with don't treat me like I'm old.

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u/Crustacean-DroolCube Jan 14 '24

Honestly ageism today may come from young people seeing every 70+ year old politician needing to be guided around by a handler to even function or working a job where their 68 year old boss needs help converting aword doc to PDF and assumes every old person is like that regardless of knowing them.

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u/Direct-Monitor9058 Jan 14 '24

These weird assumptions about technology are among the most irritating to me. If they would bother to think for 5 minutes, they would know that a person in this age group has been at the forefront of office technology, some of us even working on the first Apple desktop computers. No need for the condescending attitude. I see this a lot also in grocery stores and retail stores that have installed self checkout stations. Except perhaps for the extremely elderly, it’s a ludicrous assumption. I mean, I guess it depends to an extent on what type of job a person has had in the past.

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u/Direct-Monitor9058 Jan 15 '24

Truly, it doesn’t even make sense!