Kyndryl, IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director

IBM and its IT infrastructure spinoff Kyndryl were this week taken to court by an axed exec who had put decades of her life into the tech giant. MaryKathryn Doheny, who served IBM for 23 years as a Certified Client Executive, transitioned to Kyndryl in September 2021 as Director of Global Software when it was carved from Big …

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Fingerprints

This will just continue until executives are held to account and are hauled off into court on criminal charges - then the book thrown at them and ideally a custodial sentence or two. Wishful thinking.

Best of luck to the Plaintiff

[AustinTX]

Sort of met her

I was in a Teams group chat with her about delays in using the latest corporate image on M1 Macs.

[Anonymous Coward]

Age discrimination is everywhere

I am experiencing it all the time.

I work freelance and have masses of experience but as soon as we have a teams interview they feedback total rubbish in contradiction to what my resume says.

If I put my age or dob on the resume I would never get an interview ever.

Stupid HR depts

[Yes Me]

Re: Age discrimination is everywhere

"Experience" is dangerous because you might actually know better than the person you'd be working for, and show everybody that they are a waste of space. You might also be capable of thinking for yourself, also a highly undesirable property for an underling.

[Boris the Cockroach]

Re: Age discrimination is everywhere

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""Experience" is dangerous because you might actually know better than the person you'd be working for,"

Thats been my downfall several times when applying for jobs. but then thats their loss as my therapist says.

Plus once you are over 40 you are seen as past it, and over 50 seen as a liability.

[Yes Me]

A funny business

"Discrimination of any kind is entirely against our culture and who we are at IBM, and there was (and is) no systemic age discrimination at our company"

Funny that. However many times they say this, nobody believes them. I wonder why? Something to do with facts, perhaps?

[Dante Alighieri]

Fujitsu Horizon and Postmasters

Compartmentalisation of evidence is exactly what happened in the UK with the Post Office debacle.

Every case was treated as de-novo.

It stinks.

[Anonymous Coward]

An exec? Fired? Oh the humanity! Lucky she had resources to sue. My pregnant friend got an ibm brown paper bag with a derisory payment plus a gagging order.

Can’t cry for a sociopath C suite hopper.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just so you know "Exec" in job title ≠ Executive officer of the company (Client Executive doesn't even necessarily equate to being a manager at IBM).

"Can't cry for a sociopath C suite hopper" now looks bad for 2 reasons - she wasn't C suite and she most likely didn't hop.

Any justification for the sociopath piece or are you just going to delete the entire post (or at least realise that lashing out with knowing enough makes you look thick)?

[disgruntled yank]

For your amusement

I have a small volume, A Business and Its Beliefs by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. At the time of writing, 1963, IBM had never laid off an employee. It makes for curious reading today.

[Tubz]

Many years back IBM offered to poach me from Fujitsu, so glad I stayed with the devil I knew well, until I jumped ship.

[g-ibm]

What does a Director of Global Software do at Kyndryl? They're not a software company.