Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job

Lucas123 writes "The jury in a Minnesota-based wrongful employment case delivered a verdict ordering disk-drive manufacturer Seagate to pay $1.9 million to a former employee who uprooted his family and career at Texas Instruments in Dallas to move to Minnesota for a job that did not exist. The man was supposed to be developing solid state drive technology for Seagate but was laid off months later. 'The reason that was given is that he was hired to be a yield engineer but the project never came to fruition,' the former employee's attorney said. 'They didn't care what effect it had on his career.'"

Comments

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[The Clockwork Troll]

So you're saying Seagate's HR department doesn't have good TRIM support?

Re:Liability

[Zero__Kelvin]

""Neato. I'm curious to what extent they're liable though."

I'm going to guess somewhere in the 1.9 Million dollar range, but who can say for sure?

Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the

[PRMan]

My favorite:

* Requires 10 years of C# experience

(The .NET Framework was created in 2002.)

Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the

[FatdogHaiku]

Yeah. Just the other day I saw a job advertised where experience with Windows Vista was required to get the job, but nothing was said about being expected to work with Vista.

That's just a check to make sure the applicant is a glutton for punishment...

Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the

[mehu]

That's nothing. I once saw a web developer job that listed in its requirements "10 years of HTML experience".

...and this was in 1999.