Reply #73: I think you're right there.

[Raineyb]

My former job which I had for nearly 10 years didn't require a degree when I was hired. About 5 years in suddenly they only wanted people with degrees for the position and people who had temped with us earlier who already knew the damn job weren't even considered for our department because they didn't have a degree. The job hadn't changed but what the employer required did. A cynical person would suspect it was a way to push out people of the wrong color since the number of people in certain ethnic groups dropped dramatically when the education requirements changed. But that's really fodder for another post.