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Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the harsh-working-conditions dept.

Julie188 writes: When Google shows up to buy your startup and trade out your relatively worthless startup stock for Google stock, and offers you a high paying job, too, it seems like a dream come true. But for a group of ex-military guys at a startup called Titan Aerospace, it was more like a nightmare, according to a detailed article from Business Insider. After Google buys their company, it shuts it down, gets them to move across the country to California and then sets them up working long hours outdoors in 100-degree heat. One older guy, in his mid-50s, was even hospitalized, and when he returned to work, he was essentially pushed out. Some people claimed it was bias against older workers and veterans.

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  1. Re:Hey remember when they had that no evil rule? by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google did try becoming evil in hopes of increasing profits, but just like all the other times they suddenly gave up on the project without explanation.

  2. Re: I was recruited for a dev position and felt b by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Not in the NBA, it doesn't.

  3. Re: Is Google slowly Dieing? by hawguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google bought Youtube (Nov 2006) less than two years after Youtube was founded (Feb 2005).

    That doesn't change the fact that prior to Feb 2005, not a single ad ran on Youtube.

  4. Re: Is Google slowly Dieing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    seriously, I gotta ask - do you have some kind of a brain disease - perhaps autism?

    guy1: youbube made money for 10 years and was ad free.
    guy2: no, youtube lost money before google, and it was for under 2 years
    you: that doesn't change the fact that there were no ads for those 2 years.

    I find your kind of thinking common in socially inept autistic people. I've seen it at work much too often. I fire people like you of course - you're unproductive, annoying, and usually quite ugly. You take a completely irrelevant small point that no one is arguing and pretend the conversation is about that. My theory is you actually cannot tell what the conversation is about, because you're socially inept.

  5. Re:What does anyone expect? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google: "Do No Evil."

    No, it's "Don't Be Evil."

    (It's kind of a "Let's eat, grandma" vs "Let's eat grandma" thing.)

    Yes, it is. How ironic.

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"