I don’t know if this applied to all government jobs, but to join the FBI in the eighties you had to be under 35. My guess is if you were over 30 you’d have had a hard time back then. The actual stated reason was you didn’t get the same work out of older workers than you did from younger ones. Younger workers took fewer sick days and lasted a full twenty years. At 40 you’d be sixty at retirement, which was two years after I began to take time off for sickness and other health issues. So, since the government is allowed to discriminate, this is a surprise.
When I talked to someone in the know he said that the issues with youth were, in order, drugs, arrests, physically unfit, just plain stupid and face tattoos.
They're much more ignorant and way easier to manipulate when ya get them at that age. Looking at the FBI today explains a lot about who they hire and that state of that agency. Obviously hiring younger people did not help at all.
My brother-in-law didn’t join the US Marshals until he was 34 years old. They would not hire you after you turned 35.
He said that they wanted you to have 20 years of service in before you turned 57. At that time you were out at 57 years old.
I believe that was changed. He was 60 when he retired.
His pre employment interview was with Clint Peoples. A famous Texas Ranger before being appointed US Marshal in Texas.
“When I talked to someone in the know he said that the issues with youth were, in order, drugs, arrests, physically unfit, just plain stupid and face tattoos.”
Exactly. We are friends with the head of HR at the regional hospital here. He said that half of the applicants for all jobs at the hospital (from orderlies to physicians) are rejected because the applicants can’t pass a drug test or the criminal background check.
The face tattoos would confirm the stupidity. And strongly suggest illicit drug use.