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Stripe is one of the Bay Area companies that clearly discriminated against me based on membership in a protected class. Of course as a white male, it's "ok" to

Stripe is one of the Bay Area companies that clearly discriminated against me based on membership in a protected class. Of course as a white male, it's "ok" to do so by the standards of California political correctness. (The discrimination was based on age. I'm grateful it happened when it did, rather than, say, after taking an offer.) Given the number of "support hell" horror stories that have been coming out about stripe in recent years, there really is not much point in you hanging out here spinning to try and put your company in a good light, you would be better off digging into why you are failing these people.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> Stripe is one of the Bay Area companies that clearly discriminated against me based on membership in a protected class. Of course as a white male, it's "ok" to do so by the standards of California political correctness. (The discrimination was based on age. I'm grateful it happened when it did, rather than, say, after taking an offer.) Insofar as "California political correctness" is a thing, and age is a protected class (and, unlike other "protected classes" its not a generally prohibited axis of discrimination, its only protected for age over 40), the former absolutely does not accept discrimination based on the latter, irrespective of other traits.
rhizome 10y ago
Was it because you were too young rather than over 40? Minors are not a protected class for the purposes of age discrimination, and at any rate they can't enter into contracts, which is a reasonable cause for denial.
dang 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12278723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12278723 and marked it off-topic.
GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
In all honestly, going only by your recent posts in this and other threads, I wouldn't hire you either.

dragonwriter 10y ago

> Stripe is one of the Bay Area companies that clearly discriminated against me based on membership in a protected class. Of course as a white male, it's "ok" to do so by the standards of California political correctness. (The discrimination was based on age. I'm grateful it happened when it did, rather than, say, after taking an offer.) Insofar as "California political correctness" is a thing, and age is a protected class (and, unlike other "protected classes" its not a generally prohibited axis of discrimination, its only protected for age over 40), the former absolutely does not accept discrimination based on the latter, irrespective of other traits.

rhizome 10y ago

Was it because you were too young rather than over 40? Minors are not a protected class for the purposes of age discrimination, and at any rate they can't enter into contracts, which is a reasonable cause for denial.

dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12278723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12278723 and marked it off-topic.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

In all honestly, going only by your recent posts in this and other threads, I wouldn't hire you either.