...thought it would be a great idea to air all this dirty laundry in court?
There was a time when IBM Legal were known as "the Nazgúl" for being persistent and basically unbeatable. How the mighty have fallen.
Nick Donato, who is White, received more than $1m for a SAS Institute deal, while Jerome Beard, who is Black, was paid about $230,000 for closing a sale to HCL Technologies. Beard was paid about 15 per cent of what he should have received under his agreement with IBM, despite a company policy not to cap sales commissions.
Finally, a reasonably clear-cut case of racially-based discrimination that can be challenged in a courtroom.
So they underpay the black guy, are warned about how this makes them look, get sued (as predicted), lose (as expected), and they then fire the guy who warned them? That's some big-brained
...thought it would be a great idea to air all this dirty laundry in court?
What moron would believe that IBM management would in this day and age simply pay black employees less for being black?
The story provides literally no evidence of racial motivations. So I'm left to believe either A. that some cigar chomping racist at IBM high up in management gave the order - "pay the darkies less!" - OR - B. to believe that this little todo is all part of the mass hysteria going on right now, with as much reality behind it as the "noose" in the NASCAR garage.
Hmm, which one to believe, lacking any evidence...
What moron at IBM (Score:5, Interesting)
There was a time when IBM Legal were known as "the Nazgúl" for being persistent and basically unbeatable. How the mighty have fallen.
Nick Donato, who is White, received more than $1m for a SAS Institute deal, while Jerome Beard, who is Black, was paid about $230,000 for closing a sale to HCL Technologies. Beard was paid about 15 per cent of what he should have received under his agreement with IBM, despite a company policy not to cap sales commissions.
Finally, a reasonably clear-cut case of racially-based discrimination that can be challenged in a courtroom.
So they underpay the black guy, are warned about how this makes them look, get sued (as predicted), lose (as expected), and they then fire the guy who warned them? That's some big-brained
Re:What moron at IBM (Score:2)
...thought it would be a great idea to air all this dirty laundry in court?
What moron would believe that IBM management would in this day and age simply pay black employees less for being black?
The story provides literally no evidence of racial motivations. So I'm left to believe either A. that some cigar chomping racist at IBM high up in management gave the order - "pay the darkies less!" - OR - B. to believe that this little todo is all part of the mass hysteria going on right now, with as much reality behind it as the "noose" in the NASCAR garage.
Hmm, which one to believe, lacking any evidence ...