Elon musk can’t stop walking into rakes
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Massive layoffs are all about money. Older workers tend to make more than younger workers. Federal law says you can't exsesivelay lay off older workers for that reason.
Actually, older workers understand proper working conditions, tend to know what they are entitled too and also tend to have higher expectations given the quality of the working conditions.
Young workers are easy to bully, will do more things outside the scope of their employ (far easier to exploit into working far more than they should) and can be bought for much cheaper as they have less expectations going in.
Ageism is hard to prove because it’s more about the correlates that come with age and experience over the fact your this number of years vs that guy who is that number of years.
Zeman, for example, claims that X laid off 60 percent of workers who were 50 or older and nearly three-quarters of those who were over 60, compared with 54 percent of employees younger than 50.
Just a reminder there's no protection from being treated badly for being young, only for being old.
If you're 35 and up for a promotion, it's completely legal for your company to flat out say you're not old enough. Or in this case twitter could have laid off 100% of under 35 year old employees and no one else.
Because old people make the rules.
Elon's old though.
Because he's "special".
I have zero trouble believing he'd fire people younger than he is because they're "too old". But as a special snowflake genius, he'd never consider himself too old.
That's not the case everywhere.
Yeah, that's how laws work...
But it's a pretty safe bet when talking about what an American Judges ruled about the American CEO of an American company did to American workers...
That most replies will focus on America's laws and not Uzbeckistan's.
I mean sure, you could ask everyone on the internet to always mention what country their talking about, but it's probably easier to just use some common sense. Because that will help you in other areas as well.
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