AARP laid off Director level and above in the Lifestyle department where I worked one month before trial. . . .

Does anyone else find it fascinating that approximately one month before trial, AARP laid off Director level and above (and one troll) in the Lifestyle group where I worked before I was discriminatorily fired (btw- the jobs were still there, they made everyone reapply and they didn't qualify)? Why do I find this fascinating. . . let me add some context.

In a workplace discrimination lawsuit like mine, the jury is asked to evaluate and award damages based on all the aspects of the case, one of them being if the damages I incurred due to the illegal act have stopped. Today, I am still out of work 7 years after being illegally fired, my professional career is in shambles and following my trial win making it public has not helped the matter - when you are discriminated against you bear 100% of the burden and the discriminator just goes on with their life and career (they also have a company to fund hiding the discrimination while you struggle to come up with almost $1M to stand up to the discrimination and fight for yourself).

As evidenced during the trial, I applied to hundreds of jobs and received some interviews but have, for the first time in my career, not been able to cure my unemployment. As such, when my attorney's asked the jury to figure an award for damages to compensate me for the lost income, NORMALLY we would have asked the jury to consider up to 10 years from trial date as I still do not have another job so my losses are ongoing. It is up to them to decide what to award, but the ask would have been there. Because AARP laid off everyone in the Lifestyle group Director level and above one month before trial, there was a hard end date to damages. We could not ask them to consider past January 2024 because technically I would not have had a job at AARP any longer. Their stance: If I still worked there I would have been laid off. AARP's attorney made this argument during her closing:

Of course there are a couple of issues with her statement: Angela Jones found another job - not fired, Larry Flanagan retired in 2019 - not fired, Jon Easley worked for AARP, not AARP Services but he also retired -not fired (will note following my termination and lawsuit- Mr. Easley was allowed to move to California and work remotely a truly unique perk at AARP), Andy Herd was a Director when he was laid off in January 2024 - not fired, and Victoria Borton was a VP when she was laid off in January 2024 - not fired.

I don't believe in coincidences and it makes me sad to think that AARP would (allegedly) go to such lengths to limit the damages they would need to pay - I think it also shows they didn't believe they would win so they were mitigating their losses. The jury awarded me $2.2M for damages to date of trial, what would that figure have been for another 10 years after trial?!? I personally believe it would be a lot more than laying off the people they did with the packages they paid out. Just my theory, but as I always do when I share my theories, there facts for your consideration as well.