OT: well that was sort of random. Just received an almost $4000 check in the mail…

[Coronita]

Looks like I was good in 2015 because I received an almost $4000 check in the mail from a law firm for a class action settlement that I never really tried to participate in directly today.

My understanding is that a few years ago, Intuit, Apple, and a few other tech companies in the bay area had allegedly conspired to not hire each other’s employees by agreeing not to try to poach each other’s employees as part of their recruiting efforts.. All former employees of the companies being sued received notice that they were automatically being included into a class action lawsuit, known as the “High-Tech Employee Antitrust Lawsuit”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

I didn’t really think it was applicable to me because when i occurred, I was employed in San Diego, not the Bay Area. I guess it didn’t matter. Looks like the employers settled and I received about $3800 in the mail today. Lol…..

Thanks Santa!

[scaredyclassic]

I read the link. Sounds like settlement could’ve been better. Seems like a dastardly anticapitalist action on part of cheesy corporations. Payment seems small, wouldn’t even be enough from making the companies. Think twice in t he future about doing it again.

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic]I read the link. Sounds like settlement could’ve been better. Seems like a dastardly anticapitalist action on part of cheesy corporations. Payment seems small, wouldn’t even be enough from making the companies. Think twice in t he future about doing it again.[/quote]

I didn’t even explicitly join the class action. I think all former employees were automatically included, unless you explicitly wanted to opt-out to sue for even more. I was like, ok whatever, I was hired out here in SD and none of the other employers recruit out here anyway at the time. Anyway, it was a nice before new year check I wasn’t expecting to get.

[scaredyclassic]

That’s the nature of a class action.

[scaredyclassic]

I once opted out of a class action on a moldy washing machine. They wanted to send me a repair certif.

I got the whole price of the machine.

Counsel for the class often sells everyone short, IMO.

[justme]

Was the total paperwork and aggravation for opting out worse or better than for opting in, you think?

What I really hate is the crappy $10 settlements I get for participating in some stock fraud lawsuits. Too much work, although they have improved now with more online entry. The one I hated the most was the one where they made me fill in lots of crap and then eventually I did not qualify because I had sold short. Why did they not tell me that up front, I would have known. Bastards. It’s not like the brokers they got the transaction data from did not know it was a short sale.

[Coronita]

[quote=justme]Was the total paperwork and aggravation for opting out worse or better than for opting in, you think?

What I really hate is the crappy $10 settlements I get for participating in some stock fraud lawsuits. Too much work, although they have improved now with more online entry. The one I hated the most was the one where they made me fill in lots of crap and then eventually I did not qualify because I had sold short. Why did they not tell me that up front, I would have known. Bastards. It’s not like the brokers they got the transaction data from did not know it was a short sale.[/quote]

I don’t know. I really didn’t think I was entitled to anything because I wasn’t ever hired up in the bay area by any of those employers up there, and so I doubt the collusion that went on up there was impacting my wages down here in San Diego. Afterall, apparently I was making well above what many engineers were saying on a previous thread was “unobtainable” for engineers down here in San Diego.

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