Don't you feel that employers doing background checks is ?

[blues90]

A tool or form of breaking privacy laws ?

I refer to this since they cannot ask your age on an application however once they have your SS# and do a background check and credit check then they know all there is to know about you including your medical records .

My point is obvious , how can you possibly prove you did not get the job because of age discrimination or if you smoke and they don;t desire this even if you are not allowed to smoke near the work place .

This came back to my mind because to the calif firings at circuit city wwhen most fired were 50 or older .

Yet it is said or so I hear that the reason we have a poor work force is due to education , well would it not make perfect sense to hire people in the 50's who have a good education even if it is only high school education , but then I forgot , they don't want to pay for experience or waste their time retraining some older fool because they won't get the years out of them .

You push SS to age 66 and the money will not sustain anyone these days but yet if you are past the prime 30ish age you are rulled out .

Can't win for losing . Then they bitch about boomers getting SS benefits , well hell I paid my share all the years I worked in this fucked up country .