Is it Age Discrimination if You're Asked to 'Think Younger?'

Age discrimination. Ugh. That is, two very ugly words.

We read this piece in the New York Post and simply cringed. After all, a reader wrote in to inquire if it was age discrimination when his or her boss asked the reader to “think younger.”

The fact that the 50 year-old marketing director pondered the question meant there was an inkling that discrimination’s present.

That said, Gregory Giangrande, human resources executive in the media, doesn’t think the director should speed dial an attorney just yet.

He sets it straight in the piece:

“What your boss said may have more to do with the audience you are trying to reach than it has to do with your age.

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