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		dschuetz on Sept 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Fir... I find it difficult to believe that IBM didn't see that one coming. I mean, what were they thinking? "They won't notice the pattern anyway!" IBM HR, probably. Were they really that careless? Or is it that somebody detected a wee disproportionality in numbers and thought "let's sue them!" There are no numbers nor details in that article beside 20,000 and "thousands" indicating how bad the discrimination really is.

slivym on Sept 18, 2018 [–]

Or more simply "We're laying off 10,000 people, that's saving us >$500m USD per annum so we can afford a law suit or two"

dschuetz on Sept 18, 2018 | [–]

Plausible. But it also means bad publicity, and bad publicity is bad for business.

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