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Was Steve Jobs a jerk? Hiring case questions his character |
April 19, 2014
Tech workers suing over an alleged no-poaching agreement among Silicon Valley firms are fighting an attempt by defendants to ban evidence that might portray Steve Jobs as a bad guy.
The case centers on alleged secret agreements struck among companies including Apple, Google and Adobe that they would not try to hire each others’ workers. The tech workers say that drove down their wages and restricted their mobility.
In the pretrial period, plaintiffs referred to materials such as outside blog posts referencing Jobs and Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the former Apple chief. Isaacson’s biography reveals both a “good Steve” and a “bad Steve.” People, in Jobs’ eye, were either “enlightened” or “an asshole,” Isaacson writes in the book.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2145920/steve-jobs-character-becomes-issue-in-silicon-valley-nohiring-case.html#tk.rss_all
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