After leaving Apple in 2008 - with 21 years' experience working on some of the brand's most top-secret projects - JK Scheinberg decided to cut his retirement short by applying for a customer support job at one of the brand's high-street stores.
Despite his extensive resume, which included work on the Marklar project which dealt with running Apple’s operating system on Intel chips, Scheinberg was rejected for the position.
According to a report by the New York Times, Scheinberg said: “On the way out, all three of the interviewers singled me out and said, ‘We’ll be in touch’."
But they never did, leaving the 54-year-old "feeling frustrated that his experience didn’t get him immediately in the door", according to Times reporter Ashton Applewhite.
Ms Applewhite said Scheinberg had "figured he’d be a great fit for a position at an Apple store Genius Bar, despite being twice as old as anyone else at the group interview”, and "to his disappointment, he didn’t hear anything right away and he remembers that he called to follow up".
Scheinberg took to Twitter to address the rejection, and to spruik Applewhite's book, which deals with age discrimination.
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