Judges Reinstate Charges In Google Age Discrimination Suit

theodp writes "A California appeals court has reinstated former Stanford prof Brian Reid's age-discrimination suit against Google, ruling that a lower Court erred in siding with Google and rejecting Mr. Reid's claims. From the Court Decision (PDF): 'We conclude that Reid produced sufficient evidence that Google's reasons for terminating him were untrue or pretextual, and that Google acted with discriminatory motive such that a factfinder would conclude Google engaged in age discrimination.' As side notes, helping Reid make his case is CS Prof Norman Matloff, while Google's actions are being defended by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of pretexting-was-not-generally-unlawful fame."

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pretextual!

[Anonymous Coward]

> untrue or pretextual

Wow! I've been on the internet since it was pregraphical. But pretextual! That must have been a really long time ago. No wonder they fired him for being old.

Re:I'm tired of age discrimination.

[jefu]

I'm fifteen and I suffer from a lot of age discrimination when looking for work.

The good news is that that will get better for you in the next few years.

The bad news is that it will eventually get worse again.

Re:Ageism is stupid, but can make sense

[rs79]

"Junior people are a lot cheaper. They're also a lot easier to convince to work 80 hour/weeks. "

Yeah! WTF is up with that?

I started in the Caliifornia computer industry when I was 22 in 1979. At my job there I was told:

1) This is the most important project in the history of the company.
2) If this project fails, the company goes under
3) Only you can do it.

So I worked buttloads of (unpaid) extra hours. And I felt good about it.

In my next job I was told:

1) This is the most important project in the history of the company.
2) If this project fails, the company goes under
3) Only you can do it.

So I worked lots of extra (unpaid) hours. I saved the company. Woo hoo.

Then in my next job I was told:

1) This is the most important project in the history of the company.
2) If this project fails, the company goes under
3) Only you can do it.

So I worked lots of extra (unpaid) hours. Hmm...

In my next job guess what happened. I was told:

1) This is the most important project in the history of the company.
2) If this project fails, the company goes under
3) Only you can do it.

Again I worked lots of extra (unpaid) hours. Huh.

You aint gonna believe what happened in my next job. I was told:

1) This is the most important project in the history of the company.
2) If this project fails, the company goes under
3) Only you can do it.

So I worked lots of extra (unpaid) hours.In my next job I was told:

1) This is the most important project in the history of the company.
2) If this project fails, the company goes under
3) Only you can do it.

Oh hang on a minute here. I may be slow but I'm starting to see a pattern here...

Re:Any tech life after 50?

[TheRaven64]

some of the buzzwords of today are really annoying. Most social networking sites feel like reality TV Speaking as a 25-year-old, I can safely reassure you that this view isn't restricted to the old guys.

By the way, a good hint for buzzword generating is to just append -cast to any word that pops into your head, or is relevant at the time. I've been opinioncasting for a while now.