James Nicoll pointed to
this post on Scripting News, wherein the author tells a story about a guy he hired who didn’t do any work, had to be fired, then sued on the basis of discrimination, all back in 1985. The author lays out this gem:
[E]very time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn’t there to
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I'm really surprised by the story related in the original post. As related, it's basically a perfect example of a case that the author's attorneys *would* advise him to take to trial, and that the employee's attorney would say, "we can send a letter and hope they settle, but if we go to trial, it's a loss without someone having at one time said something about your age."
I love the "if this had happened in 2014, it would be all over the internet." Really? Does that mean that no one who belongs to a protected class has been fired from a tech company in the past few years? Because I haven't seen a single story about anything of the sort - including the dozen or so people belonging to protected classes who have been fired from my own employer in the past few years that apparently didn't realize that all they needed to do was send a certified letter and they'd get an automatic windfall.
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