Nothing surprises me in that field.
I was simultaneously the only deep technical person with decade of lead experience capable of supporting our billion dollar billing system out of hours but apparently the least capable when it came to redundancy scoring.
I scored lower than the staff I had mentored.
The employees the director wanted to keep had their assessments cut and pasted from the highest scorer.
He couldn’t even start to explain this in court but the Judge said nothing to see.
I had done 15 years there, after 3 years I was diagnosed with and struggled with progressive muscular dystrophy. 4 months after I started a claim for disability insurance I was out.
Probably didn’t help that I threatened to go to press with their fiddling their contracts with the US government!
After a lot of back and forth and NDAs I ended up with 6 figures and a new, albeit part-time, career.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
