I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of Covid, says fired engineer

[wallflower]

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/lin_v_cgit_sytems/

[josephcsible]

The headline makes it sound like he got fired for asking. He didn't. He just got told no when he asked. He got fired when he then did it anyway.

And it's not like the company lets young workers WFH but requires old workers to be in the office, so how could this possibly be age discrimination?