2y ago

Reddit Staffer Fired for Taking Sick Leave, Lawsuit Says

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Representing Lee, attorney Navruz Avloni said Reddit’s workplace culture shifted after co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board in 2020 amid a flurry of changes at the top of the social media firm. Previously, the company had prioritized staff well-being before Ohanian’s exit, Avloni said.

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Oh that makes a lot of sense. With Alexis and Swartz gone, it left only the greedy imbecile in charge.
Fuck Spez
- No, let him do that to himself.
  
  I'm sure spaz would enjoy that.
Wow they didn't even try to hide it and pretend it was due to "layoffs"
Which is still illegal btw, happened to my friend and the company had to pay him a bunch of money
Hate reddit as much as any other guy here on Lemmy but sometimes people are just shit employees and get fired. I don't have enough context to care one way or the other.
The family business has been sued before by disgruntled employees making things up. One guy who worked only 3 months claimed he worked 12 months with regular unpaid overtime.
Best decision for us ended up being just settling quietly with him for $8k. My father was pissed and wanted to fight it but after meeting with lawyers it was simply the cheapest and easiest way out of it.
Not saying all employee suits are bullshit, but when lawyers smell blood in the water they'll go for it.
Protip: if you wanna fuck over an employer go to the state labor department and say you were working unpaid overtime. They may start an investigation and call every other employee that the company has had for the last 3 or 4 years. They'll call and say "have you worked unpaid overtime?" And of course many will say "yes of course"
The company will then have to pay out checks to those employees unless they do a good job maintaining records of payments, hours, contracts, etc. Lots of small businesses don't.
This happened to us some years back and we paid out like $50k total. Nobody was owed any unpaid overtime but our paperwork was just a mess and we couldn't provide hour clock ins / clock outs / contracts / etc.
Department of Labor is scarier than a lawyer.
- When I read it earlier they implied the employee was coming off fmla leave for clinical anxiety. It's super illegal to fire someone for taking fmla leave.
- My guess is the employee too kit upon themselves to take a sudden leave, the company was like "why isn't such and such coming to work?" (Possibly after multiple times). And then was let go for not showing up to her scheduled shifts.
  Usually for a sick leave, companies require you to have a medical release for it.
  Not defending Reddit, fuck them, but this is what I've seen happen to people in the past that frequently take a "leave of absence" with no medical release.
My takeaway is Ohanian is a good guy (also based on other things I've heard about him).
If you have left Reddit, consider r/redditseppuku
- Reddit blocks this sub on mobile for “unrevised content” and directs you to their app.
  
  Reddit sucks. try:
  https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku
Good.

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