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• @noamscheiber Noam Scheiber on x

  New court documents show top IBM executives discussing the need to get rid of older workers, who they refer to as “dinobabies.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ustechworkers @ustechworkers on x

  The tweet below is an example of DC think-tank types who have never worked in the tech sector and have no clue what they are talking about. The age discrimination scandal at IBM was strictly about pay and they were getting rid of workers as young as 40 years old. https://twitter.…

• @cabbey @cabbey on x

  @Techmeme @noamscheiber > the language in the emails “is not consistent with the respect IBM has for its employees” Bullshit. That is exactly in line with how they talked and acted internally the entire time I worked there. Especially the execs and senior managers.

• @spushor @spushor on x

  “Now it appears that top IBM executives were directly involved in discussions about the need to reduce the portion of older employees at the company, sometimes disparaging them with terms of art like “dinobabies.” IBM U SUCK. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @harrymccracken Harry McCracken on x

  Pretty shocking, and I'm curious how old the execs who wanted to stomp our older employees were. (The most ageist businesspeople I've encountered are not spring chickens themselves—they just think it's their peers who are lame.) https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @wcwoa @wcwoa on x

  This is how we get a workforce of mostly H1B workers. 👇 “Another email by a top executive, appearing to refer to older workers, mentions a plan to “accelerate change by inviting the ‘dinobabies’ (new species) to leave” and make them an “extinct species.” https://www.nytimes.com/.…

• @richardhanania Richard Hanania on x

  What a cancer civil rights law is, and it's not just race and sex. Old people's brains deteriorate and they're expensive, of course they should be pushed out for younger workers. Stagnant society creates new victims and grinds everything to a halt. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  IBM referring to anyone as dinosaurs is rich. https://twitter.com/...

• @wadhwa Vivek Wadhwa on x

  Making ‘Dinobabies’ Extinct: IBM's Push for a Younger Work Force https://www.nytimes.com/... —No surprise. I've long been writing and warning about the tech industry's darkest secret: age discrimination https://wadhwa.com/...

• @bykenarmstrong Ken Armstrong on x

  Today's excellent @nytimes story on IBM jettisoning older workers — disparaged as “dinobabies,” according to newly unsealed documents — shows how squarely @Ariana_Tobin & @petergosselin nailed this subject four years ago for @propublica: https://features.propublica.org/ ... https…

• @robertslawrence Lawrence Roberts on x

  Good @noamscheiber piece on latest revelations in the IBM age discrimination case. Here's the original ProPublica expose' https://features.propublica.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @blairreeves Blair Reeves on x

  I spent several years at IBM. I found its executive leadership narrow-minded, obtuse and frequently contemptuous of its employees. This new release shocked even my jaded perspective. IBMers - we're hiring at Salesforce. DMs open. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/..…

• @noamscheiber Noam Scheiber on x

  “These filings reveal that top IBM executives were explicitly plotting with one another to oust older workers from IBM's work force in order to make room for millennial employees.” https://www.nytimes.com/...