Industry Week: IBM is being sued for age discrimination after firing thousands.
Systematically laying off older workers to build a younger workforce.
Sounds like oracle to me! Bey your oracle is next on line to get sued.
Another reason to sell !
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"As an older tech worker, I can attest that this is an industry-wide issue, and not just ORCL. Companies will play all kinds of tricks to avoid hiring older workers"
Especially smaller firms. I've been to interviews where almost no one in the office was over 30. Try getting an offer there when you're 50+. There's a reason so many are trying to hang on at ORCL.
I partially filled out an application not too long ago. I say Partially because it asked for the year I graduated HIGH SCHOOL. I tried to skip over it but it was a mandatory question. I stopped right there saying I was going to forward a screen shot of the offending question to the Department of Labor. I never bothered but I hope it put the fear of God in them.
I would so enjoy seeing the very slimey LE get sued for that. If not him, then his company. There is probably the same sort of paper trail of slide decks and internal initiatives that was uncovered at ibm. After all, if this is as widespread as we all know it is, and knowing that all these tech companies pretty much copy each other (if not actually collude, as in the SV no-hire agreements), how could it not be?
Hiring discrimination is much harder to prove. As an older tech worker, I can attest that this is an industry-wide issue, and not just ORCL. Companies will play all kinds of tricks to avoid hiring older workers and they'll even bring you in for an interview so that their records look good even though they have no interest in hiring you. The line in the sand is right around age 40 now. It's uphill if you're over that.
How many older workers is oracle hiring?! My sense is they are predominantly hiring kids fresh out of college as opposed to experienced people. That’s just a different version of age discrimination. Lawsuit incoming!
ORCL seems to be very aware of this trend and they've been careful revently, even to the point of showing balanced numbers for those who stayed vs. axed for a given RIF, for every age in the [25,75] range.
That is interesting about FB’s employees’ age in contrast with their users. I am one of those “geezer” FB users who has cut way, way back on my FB usage. Got a new smart phone and will not install the FB app or the horrible intrusive Messenger app. Disgusted with them and how they got powned by the Russians.
The 3 stooges look in the mirror and say: oh, sh-- we can’t have more people like me around. Which is true except that the older people they are laying off are actually competent and actually know what they are doing.
Major conceptual error on the part of the stooges
I hope so. Ironically it is aged people instructing HR to layoff older people.
Ageism will be the discriminatory ground zero for Oracle and a few others in SV. Look at Facebook - younger customers and running away from it,leaving it to oldies. The average FB user is older than their employees soon.
Sue away. Class action time.
Rommetty needs to go.
Drpped a load at the bell, seemed to be a little fresh.