He didn't say he wanted to fire old people, "plain old - you are not doing a great job" is just a colloquialism and can be replaced with the word "standard reas

He didn't say he wanted to fire old people, "plain old - you are not doing a great job" is just a colloquialism and can be replaced with the word "standard reason" or something similar. This is probably how he got in trouble for some of the HR things he mentioned, where he says a word and people take it like you did and report him.