Originally Posted by
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but they have less time left than the most junior person in the class ahead of them. It’s just as arbitrary to make class dates a week apart inviolable but honor age above everything else.
That's not arbitrary either. Hire date is seniority, so obviously dates a week apart are set in stone. People that start on the same day must be sorted in some other fashion, that's a law of nature. Drawing straws, flipping coins, portions of SSNs, those have no basis other than random selection, age does not.