truthbetold - 6:37 am on Jul 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

Anti-business people would have us believe that businesses fire people because they are mean and ruthless, and dont care about their people. They always forget to point out that its businesses that are providing jobs and livelihoods for their employees. These people usually have socialistic and anti-capitalistic tendencies.

Business owners have the responsibility to ALL their employees to hire the best talent that will move the company forward, and weed out those that are underperforming or are otherwise not fitting into the culture and bringing others down. This ensures the strength of the company so that all the other hard working and dedicated employees keep all their jobs and continue to grow and prosper in their careers.

This is America and business owners have the right to hire who they feel will help their business and let go people who they feel are hurting their business. They cannot discriminate based on race or age or gender, but who here knows what these managers were thinking when they let this gentlemen go? Who was there to witness this man's performance and can prove that he was doing a great job and the managers let him go because of his age?

I wonder if its possible for the people here who have already comdemened Google as the big bad corporation to admit that its POSSIBLE that this man was let go for performance. In a fair and just society, people are considered innocent until proven guilty. Those that are always anti-business are usually that way due to emmotional reasons rather than any rational reasons in my opinion.

I believe 100% in judging someone soley by their performance and their RESULTS. I dont care what they look like or how old they are. However, the problem with discrimination laws is that they assume that its actually possible to know what a manager was thinking when they let someone go. Only the managers know the true reason for letting someone go.

Think about it folks... do you really think that Google would let this guy go if he was doing a great job and helping the company move forward.? From my experience, its the people who do the poorest job at work that are always the one playing the role of victim and trying to get a free lunch... to make up for the fact that they dont want to get ahead the old fashioned way... through hard work.

(Im sure i will now be labeled as cruel and heartless)