rogerd - 3:47 am on Jul 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

There's something wrong with the stats in that article:

Just 2 percent of Google's roughly 1,900 employees are under 30 years old, according to the suit. The average age of Google's male workers was 29.7 years old and the average age of women was 28.4 years old when Reid left.

Nevertheless, the charges are fairly believable, particularly when you have people without a lot of experience or training discussing termination. At the University of Notre Dame, a coach was fired by then incoming head coach Bob Davey with the same kind of comment - too old, looking for a newer approach, etc. Ugly lawsuit followed... A rookie mistake that no competent HR person would have made.