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It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement
Author : rntn
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-10-27 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| Will probably work out to ~$15k per person after fees.
| tyingq wrote:
| _" If approved without changes, each of the 358 plaintiffs in
| the California case stand to earn $50,279 in gross individual
| recovery. Net of attorney's fees, costs and expenses, however,
| that total shrinks to a "minimum of $15,000," court filings
| indicate."_
| zer8k wrote:
| Like usual lawyers walk away with Ferraris and the victims
| get a pittance. It's particular egregious in this case. $15k
| is almost surely less than even a year's wages. How pathetic.
| The very least they could do is calculate 7 years worth of
| interest on the 18M...but then the scumbag lawyers get more.
| jstarfish wrote:
| > $15k is almost surely less than even a year's wages. How
| pathetic.
|
| That's not the worst of it.
|
| It took _seven_ years of effort to be awarded a $15k
| payout.
|
| Cutting the lawyers out altogether, even the full $50k is
| still less than a single year's salary for the median
| household. It doesn't fix anything.
| rio517 wrote:
| Seems like a slap on the wrist.
| pan69 wrote:
| It's a settlement, which makes it even worse I guess.
| strangesmells02 wrote:
| One company down...the entire rest of the tech industry to go.
|
| As an over 40 the job search is grim
| throwaway5959 wrote:
| The job market in general blows right now. Keep at it and good
| luck!
| pfannkuchen wrote:
| Curious what sort of level you are, if your company does that?
|
| I have wondered whether the ageism thing is partially related
| to younger people being a lottery ticket in terms of
| talent+commitment level. The company might get lucky and hire
| someone who is way overpowered but currently under leveled
| because they have not yet had time to reach their terminal
| seniority level. This ends up being a great bargain for the
| company. Whereas with established people it's a bit more you
| get what you pay for.
| swatcoder wrote:
| I think a bigger "legitimate" factor is craft culture.
|
| Because of the industry's recent rapid growth wave, the
| approach experienced older developers take to the craft is
| often very different than what's trendy among younger
| developers and teams where they dominate, and there's easily
| a clash where both think the others' approach is totally
| bonkers and a red flag.
|
| Somebody seeking a job may know or believe they can adapt,
| but the hiring team just sees an outsider and assumes the
| outsider doesn't know how to do things "right".
|
| This applies to skilled young developers trying to break into
| "old school" teams in defense/enterprise/industrial/etc as
| much as to older developers trying to keep up with youth-
| dominated FAANG and imitators, but it's tolerated in the
| former but can get labelled as ageism in the latter.
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