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"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says (www.videogamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bungie’s layoffs have been devastating. 220 jobs were eliminated yesterday, while other jobs had been shifted over to PlayStation Studios.

Sadly it's all but impossible to show their layoff was because of maternity leave and not just because they were 'part of the layoff'...

Hope there's a paper trail adding them to the list of layoffs because of the maternity leave, but I doubt they'd be stupid enough to put it down on paper.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Could be a chat or email trail. People nowadays often forget the difference between talking something over at the urinal, and writing about it in an app.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My work is in the process of hiring someone to replace me since I'm headed to a new job. After a recent interview, a co-worker on the hiring committee made a comment on Teams, "His age seems OK."

Uhhh, maybe we shouldn't be talking about age in hiring decisions. Especially on a written medium. Pretty sure that in the US, age discrimination laws starts at like 40yo, including hiring and firing. That interviewee seemed to be over 40yo, which is probably what prompted that comment.

Not that I think the candidate will sue us if we don't hire him, but it's just unnecessary risk. And I don't even work in HR or legal; rather I'm in IT. Surprised HR didn't say anything about that comment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That whole mindset is weird to me. I’m in my mid 40s and just got hired on as a team lead for a bunch of kids who are fresh out of college. They’re exactly where I am when I started and I’m excited to share my 20 years of experience and mentor them.

They wanted to hire me on as their supervisor but I made it clear that the extra couple grand a year for that headache didn’t interest me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It is. Additionally, my co-worker who made the comment is like 33-34. I'm 37. Another person on the committee is 40. HR is like 64. So it's not like we're a bunch of young guns ourselves lol. We should want experience, and with experience tends to come age.

But yeah, I getcha on the management thing. I'm technically a manager, but I don't have any subordinates. Because I told them, they're going to have pay me way more to become an actual manager with direct reports, especially since I'd lose my non-exempt status. To make me exempt, they'd need to make it worth my while. We're a non-profit, so we already get paid crap (though benefits are excellent).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People talk at the urinal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately. It's the private place of choice for people to conduct shady business... all the way to US Presidents like Lyndon Johnson:

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lyndon-b-johnson-penis