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Laid off at 56. When I got home from being notified, there was an email from the HR person at a competitor in my inbox. I started work there within two weeks.
by mikevp 8y ago
Laid off at 56. When I got home from being notified, there was an email from the HR person at a competitor in my inbox. I started work there within two weeks.
Plus, my prior company had a rather spectacular special severance package for those of a certain age who would sign an agreement not to sue for age discrimination. (This was accompanied by a thick stack of statistics of who had been laid off, showing that they were well prepared to defend themselves from any such lawsuit, but I'd rather take the money than spend the next umpteen years in court, and have the lawyers take any hypothetical judgment in the end anyway.)
- nardonne 8y agoIt's almost impossible to sue for age discrimination and win. All they have to do is lay off 1 person in their 20s at the time they laid off their older workers and they claim innocence and it works.
- ProAm 8y agoEven if you sue and win you'll likely never work again due to it.
- benburleson 8y agoSerious question: If this is the expectation, is it not possible to sue for the actual damages, which is a lifetime of income?
- marme 8y agono because the actual damage is just your lost income at that job. The reason you will never work again is no one wants to hire someone who sues their employer which is not caused by them firing you. It is the same with renting, if you sue your landlord no other landlord will touch you, many places maintain blacklists of tenants who have sued their landlords
- Latteland 8y agoSue after you start working in your new job and are established.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoWho would know unless you had a unique name and it hit the newspapers?
- giobox 8y agoIt's not unheard of for groups of employers to share (often times illegal) blacklists of known "troublesome" workers. Recruiters supposedly sometimes maintain similar blacklists as well. > https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703389004575033583145567138 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703389004575033...
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- AFNobody 8y agoIt isn't even that, they just need to eliminate the position and not rehire anyone for it (or a similar one) for 18 months.
- himom 8y agoAnother trick to get rid of union/tenured/troublesome employees is to create a new department, transfer desired staff and close the old one.
- ultimoo 8y agoBay Area or elsewhere?