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user-inactivated  ·  3899 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Revealed: Tech Giants Wage-Fixing / Recruiting Policies Involved Dozens More Companies (ebay, aol, ask, more)

    Some of the companies Pando contacted for this article insisted, off the record, that they had not agreed to appear on Google or Apple’s lists, and that there were no reciprocal non-solicitation agreements. Indeed, that same line of defense was used by many of the defendants in the current case.

That, of course, makes no sense. Google has zero motive not to cold call PayPal employees or whoever if PayPal has not similarly agreed to hold off on Google's workers. So shouldn't this mean another round of subpoenas? Why has the DoJ limited its scope?

Also: I suppose if Michael fucking Dell can't send an email without sounding like an idiot I shouldn't be surprised when my coworkers and professors can't either. Actually not a single one of these TECH INDUSTRY GIANTS shows any regard for grammar, spelling or formatting in any of their emails. Why...? It takes more work not to use good grammar at some point, right?

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    1. Not to pursue manager level and above candidates for Product, Sales, or G&A roles — even if they have applied to Google;

The second half of that sentence in particular is going to absolutely fuck them.

EDIT2^: shame Pando doesn't go into the economic arguments against this when talking about the relative pathos between wage-fixing a laborer and wage-suppressing someone who's already kinda wealthy. Either way, net efficiency is tanked. That's big.

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