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Comment by paxys | Hacker News Reader

Be discriminated against, fight five years in court and get a $90K payout. Where's the win exactly?

He didn't have to fight five years in court. All he did was submit the complaint to the EEOC and they handled the investigation and lawsuit against the company.

Hopefully it is a societal win, discouraging companies from age discrimination in the future. For us old guys, that feels like a win.

Not sure what win this would be as companies will give zero feedback to avoid incriminating themselves, according to the article.

"The company’s recruiter also told him that Exact Sciences Corporation was “looking for someone more junior that can ... stay with the company for years to come,”

Sadly it doesn't look like age discrimination will stop, just the feedback will.

All it will encourage is for companies to give zero feedback when they reject someone.

Not really. The problem with companies is when there is wrong-doing, it's just pittance fines and ultimately, those fines are paid with other people's money.

I wish it was more impactful.

IMO a judgement like this doesn't discourage anything, just reinforces that fact that breaking the rules is advantageous and fines are a small cost of doing business.

Five years of litigation is no cake walk.

I guess at this point its time for me to be age-discriminated bc im starting to say the same cliches as my father, I viscerally understand the phrase "ffs."

We all know the wheels of justice turn slowly. A wrong was righted and we're throwing it away because it wasn't speedy enough?

And there's even a second win, god forbid! The defendant had a fair day in court so we can have confidence the right thing happened! Dont be too quick to demand reprisals and call it justice.

The win is in getting at least one of these bastards a penalty.

go to a job interview, do something else for five years, get 90k. seems like a pretty good deal.

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