Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoYea, but my question is why does this actually matter. How old your coworkers are is their private information that they can share with you if they wish. At my current company most of the more senior employees are millenials but we do have some Gen Xers that have faced open age discrimination at other jobs and, well, it doesn’t fucking matter as long as you can do the job. Women, especially, tend to get a lot of shit if they’re older and don’t have children or, God forbid, aren’t married - so I can absolutely understand why you’d want to dodge that judgment.
You aren’t entitled to any private information about your coworkers, and that’s a good thing. I am quite confused why this is important because it’s not relevant to the extremely limited relationship you’re forming as coworkers.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because coworkers need to trust each other, especially in healthcare.
Literally no one has said differently.
It’s just ironic a random 25 year old would have the majority to just decline to answer.
OP is 43 years old and can’t handle that, so instead they claim to be 20 years younger, which very few people are probably falling for.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yea, okay, especially the sibling response has made me reconsider. Lying about your age seems feels a lot more cringey then just deflecting and refusing to answer.