On: He who submits a resume has already lost

[bjornsing]

Sure. And my general attitude is that if my employer can replace me then they should, so I can do something more productive (where I will be harder to replace). And to state the obvious: when you run your work life like this for 20 years you get pretty hard to replace.

[analognoise → bjornsing]

The graveyard is full of the previously irreplaceable.

"...20 years"

Ohh sorry, we can't hire you. It's a "culture fit" issue. (We aren't allowed to say it's an age filter! It's "culture"- we aren't ageist!)

[bjornsing → analognoise]

The grave yards are full of irreplaceable people.

Look: It’s not that we disagree about how the world works, it’s that we give it a different emotional coloring. Yours sounds bitter and resentful to me.