It’s illegal to layoff people based upon age. Most businesses are good at getting around it. It happens frequently. IBM has a history of getting sued for it. With AI on the horizon, I can foresee many more of these kind of scenarios happening.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, June 2, 2023, 5:49 PM, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: Not opining about IBM's motives - I know nothing - but FWIW, when I was caught in the 3rd wave of layoffs at Volvo Truck NA, some of my fellow victims tried to get me interested in the claim that it was all older employees and therefore age discrimination. I suppose it may have been, but it seems obvious to me that the folks who had been there longer were the ones with the higher pay, and therefore that it was likely a cost-cutting measure. I have a hard time imagining them getting rid of long-time employees who weren't costing them very much. I'm not terribly interested in indignation anyway; a waste of energy, mostly. And in my case I went straight from there to contracting, and promptly doubled my cash income - eventually tripled it. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart -- an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. -advice to a tempter, from The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, June 2, 2023 13:56 If true, I hope the company gets bloodied in court. My, soon to be ex-, employer is accomplishing the same result by eliminating all the mainframes. I'm not saying getting rid of us older people is a goal, just that it's happening. --- On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 11:44 Lance D. Jackson <ljack...@pandrueassociates.com> wrote: > https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/02/age_kyndryl_ibm/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
