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Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com)
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.
Yeah that will get you a lawsuit and probably a loss.
"That HR person was so inadequate in handling the case. Her job is to protect management the whole time." Again for anyone thinking otherwise HR is not there for you.
What happened here is not new and will happen again and again. These 'new' companies are making the exact same mistakes as the previous ones. That paperwork is because of messups like this.
Exactly! HR is typically there to protect the company. While it is often in their best interest to protect employees (i.e avoiding lawsuits) that really is secondary and when there is a conflict it's the employee that will lose.
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engineers. Nobody wants to bother with older IT guys. Their experience doesn't matter that much because you just don't need that many experienced techs to watch over the young guys and they can't work 60+ hour work weeks and be productive. Human beings just don't work that way.
What does irritate me though is seeing them spouting anti-Union / laissez faire clap-trap right up until they're personally discriminated against. Then they want the government to step in an regulate. But the young guys wanting to unionize or (God forbid) have a living minimum wage? Let 'em just work harder. Good for goose, good for gander. Or how about we protect _all_ workers?
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Cronyism is the inevitable result when Capitalism enters its malignancy stage, which it did about 1980. Now it's stage 4 Capitalism.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Human nature is cronyism. All systems are rife with it.
Not only do I remember when Google proclaimed that rule, I remember when SlashDot was loaded to the eyeteeth with Google fanbois.
Most Recruiters suck some times they have very little info on the job it self and want to come into the office. It's like some are on a quota or the firm wants to look good by saying we have a big number on people on file.
Other like to edit your resume to jam you into a job that are not a fit for and other times it's bs like we need to edit to a long form federal resume.
You are spending most of waking life in an environment where the people are willing to throw each other to the wolves. Get the hell out. If you hate all your workmates then what are you doing there? If you only minorly dislike them then imagine they get cancer and die leaving their families bereft. Just think of the extra risk of someone "going postal". You will find that, just in the likely reduced healthcare costs through reduction in stress (not to mention insurance) it's probably worth your while to take a 25-50% pay cut just to leave.
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Or both, but Unions, not Guilds like they seem to have in the US. Those are there to protect the jobs, Unions are there to protect the people and no, that is not the same. They are overlapping.
Just talking about Belgium, so details might differ from country to country.
Unions saw to it that we have much stronger working rights. They are Unions and not a guild. With a guild (e.g. writers guild) you protect just one function. e.g. writers guild or bakers in the middle ages or beer brewers.
With a union, they look at the people, regardless if they are a writer or a baker or whatever.
In Belgium I can join any of several Unions. There are some that are specific for certain branches, like e.g. for train personal or for military, but even then you will have an option to join them, or another.
I can go to almost any union and join. And nobody cares. Really, they don't. I have been on both sides and nobody asks if you are Union or not You will have the same identical rights.
When a company is larger that 49 people, a union representative must be available, so social elections are held. So this means that every company with more that 50 employees is, in fact, a Union company. This means some monthly meetings and such. This does NOT mean you must join a union.
If you work in a company with less than 50 people, you can still join a Union, if you like. Or you don't. All up to you. Nobody will realy ask for it as there is no difference and you can join or leave at any m
The Unions saw to it that working in heat is illegal. At a certain duration, they need to see that drinks (water is fine) is available. If it takles longer, working hours need to be shorter (without loss of pay) and at even higher temperatures, they will need to close altogether.
So in Belgium, if this where the case, any person could contact their union who could start an investigation. "But what if I am not a union member at that moment?" Thenb you become one and they will be available from that moment on.
"How do you know that?" Because I have seen it in action.
37 hour week? No unpaid overtime? 35 days holidays? 8EUR extra per working day for food? Paid public transport? Extra insurance? Increase in pay with index so no negotiations need to be done? All done thanks to Unions.
I know many will now start to defend the companies and tell how bad of an idea all this is. There is no need for that. The companies have their own lawyers that are capable of defending themselves.
And because they are a Union and not a guild, they will understand that the companies need to make money to keep as many people at work as possible and not just at one company or in one profession.
Are they perfect? No. Are they better than nothing? Ask the people who started and fought for them.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I cracks me up EVERY FUCKING TIME, that those that advocate for more government are CLUELESS that government is responsible for the very problems they create in the first place!
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Ever think that enabling and empowering the very people you entrust that fucked you over the first time somehow will yield a different result?? Naawwww, couldn't be that.
Life is not for the lazy.
the problem is that you're an asshole
You're being (ironically) an asshole, but you're probably right - not the way you mean (which is just to be a spiteful, petty, vindictive prick) but that he had probably built himself a reputation of being "difficult" to work with. That's easy to do when you're the go-to guy for a dozen different things - everybody's demanding 100% of your time, all the time, relying on you to dig them out of the hole they've dug themselves into - you have to turn some people away. Especially when you're already working 12 hour days to meet some insane deadline - you just don't have time to deal with all the people who aren't carrying their own weight.
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At least part of the Court's job is to determine whether a badly written law, interpreted literally, infringes on the individuals rights to the point that that infringement is unconstitutional. But Gorsuch types are loath to step up to the plate in such cases - unless said individual is a corporation...
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