Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job 354
Lucas123 writes "The jury in a Minnesota-based wrongful employment case delivered a verdict ordering disk-drive manufacturer Seagate to pay $1.9 million to a former employee who uprooted his family and career at Texas Instruments in Dallas to move to Minnesota for a job that did not exist. The man was supposed to be developing solid state drive technology for Seagate but was laid off months later. 'The reason that was given is that he was hired to be a yield engineer but the project never came to fruition,' the former employee's attorney said. 'They didn't care what effect it had on his career.'"
rimshot (Score:5, Funny)
So you're saying Seagate's HR department doesn't have good TRIM support?
Re:Liability (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to guess somewhere in the 1.9 Million dollar range, but who can say for sure?
Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Too Much (Score:2, Funny)
Many punitive suites are 10x as much
nah, punitive suites can be quite a bit cheaper if you opt for the brunette with a paddle rather than the blonde with a whip.
Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite:
* Requires 10 years of C# experience
(The .NET Framework was created in 2002.)
Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. Just the other day I saw a job advertised where experience with Windows Vista was required to get the job, but nothing was said about being expected to work with Vista.
That's just a check to make sure the applicant is a glutton for punishment...
Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. I once saw a web developer job that listed in its requirements "10 years of HTML experience".
...and this was in 1999.
Yea? so it was a targeted job listing.. (Score:3, Funny)
sometimes companies write a job ad so that only one person can fill it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#Origins [wikipedia.org]
Obviously, they wanted Tim!
Oh I'm sure the GP was talking about a real thing (Score:4, Funny)
Been happening forever. Companies that think "years of experience" = good and just decide they need an arbitrary amount without any real consideration of what that means.
Something along those lines I remember was back in 1999 when my roommate was looking for jobs. I had a wide skillset and was looking for a few kinds of jobs, a Linux sysadmin being one he was interested in. There were more than a few positions, what with this being .com boom time and all that. They all wanted MCSEs. Yes that's right, they wanted a Microsoft certification for a Linux only job. Reason was, of course, MCSE = sysadmin in their mind. They didn't know what it was, what it meant, any of that, just that MCSE = sysadmin. He was actually told this at one point. He got exasperated with a recruiter and yelled at them (he wasn't getting the job anyhow) for the stupidity. They said something to the effect of "MCSE is the industry standard degree for all systems administration."
This shit will always happen.
Re:*Seagate* ended his career?! (Score:4, Funny)
I can just imagine the interview.
"So, Mr. Vaidyanathan, I see you live in Minnessota now. How do you feel about relocating for this new role?"
"I don't have a problem with it, but there's a good chance I'll have to fly back fairly regularly - possibly at short notice - over the course of the next year or two."
"Really? Why's that?"
"I'm suing my former employer".
Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the (Score:4, Funny)
Big deal, I have 35 years with C# and I am only 34.
Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the (Score:3, Funny)
Even then you're not immune from silly ads going out there. I think the best I ever saw was a charity looking for an IT manager.
The headline of their advert was "We need some help with our IT". The application instructions were "Please email two copies of your CV to ...@..."