"69-year-old engineer says Tesla fired him because he was old", 4 Oct 2016

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Thomas Flessner, 69, has sued his former employer, Tesla, for age discrimination. Many of the tech giants in Silicon Valley—Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and IBM—have faced similar suits as older employees claim that tech companies are ignoring their experience in lieu of younger workers and that the push for greater diversity in the workplace is blind to the issue of age discrimination...Flessner says that once he joined the company’s engineering team he was isolated due to his age and routinely chastised for completing projects slower than his coworkers. In reality, Flessner says, he worked just as hard as everyone else, with the added burden of having to disprove myths about older workers being slow or unable to adapt to changing technology...“Furthermore,” the complaint says, “the younger engineers were not criticized for the speed of their work by [supervisor Paul] Edwards even though they did not accomplish their projects any faster than plaintiff.”...[A] Tesla spokesperson said the following about the suit: While we aren’t commenting on the specifics of this litigation, we are committed to upholding a discrimination-free workplace...[Also refers to Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft]