<a href="https://nitter.net/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nitter.net/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543</a><p>Context:<p>> <i>High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.</i><p>> <i>The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, each of which was headquartered in Silicon Valley, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.</i><p>> <i>The civil suit was filed by five plaintiffs. It accused the tech companies of collusion between 2005 and 2009 to refrain from recruiting each other's employees.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...</a>
I hope the recruiter that was "terminated within the hour" ended up getting something from this lawsuit. I'm having trouble envisioning any circumstance that requires action this quickly. The employee is at least owed an investigation before being terminated.
Previous discussion submitted by the same person:<p><i>Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873</a> - September 2021 (205 comments)
If you do not want a mistake to happen every 6 months, maybe don't fire the ones who make the mistake and learn from it.<p>Maybe fire those who repeatedly make the same serious mistake again and again, like firing knowledgeable people.
This should at the very least have a 2021 - ignoring the fact that even in 2021 it was referencing information from a trial that happened in 2015.<p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-settle-anti-poaching-lawsuit-for-415-million/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...</a>
(2021) or even (2007)<p>The exact tweet discussed heavily here (submitted by same user):<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873</a><p>The Verge wrote an article in 2012 discussed heavily here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817</a>
What's stopping this from happening at current batch of companies. All of them are laying off together (and rehiring at lower rates) while delivering record profits.
So, if you are an Apple employee and apply at Google they will reject you on that ground? - (I am not an Apple employee, nor do I wish to work for Google)
Thanks Obama for enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act:<p>> SECTION 1. Every contract, combination in the
form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on con-viction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000,
or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”<p>-Adam Smith, 1776