Given average age of tech layoffs January 14th is > 54 years and that at least some people were let go because of bogus mid-year and year-end reviews, has anyone pursued a discriminatory case or filed a complaint with the EEOC? Figuring BNYM has themselves covered and curious as to how.
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By age 50 these days you gotta have everything paid off and expect a layoff.
It’s bogus because I never had a one on one with my manager ever. End of last year I was told in my review that they were working on getting me a raise. Mid-year I got a BE with no good explanation, just that they were being stricter on evals. Stupidly I didn’t see it coming. Asked for help raising my status. No help was forthcoming. Still no one on one, or any talk about my work. EOY, got BE, by then I figured it out. A month later I was gone.
So if I was really below expectations, why no discussion ever? Everything is fine, then out of blue I’m rated BE with no warning. That’s lying b---s--- is what that is.
Collaborative … yeah, right. I keep (kept) hearing that word. Total BS. And BTW, not signing the review doesn't accomplish anything. Put in your comments of the objection, which is what I did. In the end, of course, it made no difference.
Why do you say "bogus reviews"?
Its supposed to be a collaborative process, between you and your manager.
If you didnt see it coming, need to take a good look at yourself objectively.
If you dont agree with the comments, and the performance rating.... ye dont sign it off.
I spoke to an attorney last couple of weeks and ended up signing the agreement. He said, as you inferred, most of the time scumbags like BNYM have a team of lawyers to protect themselves from this. However from my reading of the agreement, they can't prevent you from filing an EEOC complaint, just that, supposedly, you technically would forfeit any money awarded to you by EEOC.
I did an interesting thing in the past few days. I took the 'attachment C' sections and entered all the many hundreds of ages into a spreadsheet (god forbid they'd give us an electronic copy of it). I'm a fast typist and really was curious about this. At least in my division, the average age of the layoff group was 53, everything not laid off was an average of 47. I can't say I typed this up with absolute 100% accuracy, but let's say I did. Is that 6 year average difference significant for the purposes of EEOC?