However, not long after retiring in 2008, Scheinberg became restless and chose to apply to work at the Genius Bar as a customer support representative.
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In 2008, a little “restless” after retiring early at the age of 54, Scheinberg applied for a job at an unnamed Apple store just for something to do.
On the way out of his interview, Mr Scheinberg told her, the interviewers singled him out to say they would be in touch. You would hope that age has nothing to do with why they got the job and that they’re employed based exclusively on an ability to do the job, but a New York Times op-ed seems to prove otherwise.
Business Inside has suggested it is pretty unlikely anyone is more qualified to work at Apple than Scheinberg, who invented an Intel version of Mac OSX that ran on PCs.
Age discrimination has much more sinister consequences, especially in the United States, where most of the elderly can’t exclusively rely on social security for their income.
Ashton Applewhite wrote: “I’m lucky enough to get my tech support from JK Scheinberg, the engineer at Apple who led the effort that moved the Mac to Intel processors”.
The interviewing panel apparently never got back to Schienberg and now there are suggestions it was because of his age.
At 54, and bored with retirement, he made a decision to apply for a job at an Apple Genius Bar, the in-person customer support locations at Apple’s high street stores, which tend to be staffed by younger people. “In fact, not only do I know about it, I am the person who named it”.
Max (our 1-year-old) and I were in the office when this happened because I was picking JK up from work.
Bertrand tells JK to go to Fry’s (the famous West Coast computer chain) and buy the top of the line, most expensive Vaio they have.
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“The next morning, Steve Jobs is on a plane to Japan to meet with the President of Sony”.
