Technology @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 3 mo. ago

X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum

www.engadget.com X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum

An Irish commission ruled that a former Twitter executive's firing was unjust and ordered the company to pay over $600,000 in damages.

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I just noticed that I like posts with "X ordered to do..." sooo much better than posts with "Elon says..."
- I prefer the latter, because it's so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).
  
  There should be a rule all posts about twitter must have "(elon musk sucks)" in the title 😆
  
  exactly this. i have a filter on certain keywords. his name is in there but there's nothing I can do to avoid posts about the platform.
  
  it's super irritating.
Surprise, Space Karen, places other than the US have actual employee protection laws.
- I'm always baffled how US slavers fall for that trap again and again.
  
  The US doesn't fall for anything; the pols are paid to not work for the people. It's greed, not idiocy.
- but laws don't apply to billionaires 😭 /s
  
  Well it's not like Musk was fined, the company has to pay.
- Yep, that wouldn't fly in Canada either lol
you know what I always stan for? "former Twitter". I just love that shit! I hope it always stays like this to show that the rebranding didn'T work
- I've been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:
  
  Instead of "X (formally know as Twitter)", the time has come for "Twitter (currently called X)".
  
  Don't even acknowledge the current name of the site, just keep calling it Twitter.
  
  just call it twitter. literally everyone knows what it is, and twitter.com still redirects there so who gives a shit what he's calling it. don't show his site the courtesy he doesn't show to his own daughter.
- He literally still called the posts tweets so....
- I'm just sad we aren't at calling it "formerly facebook" instead of meta
  
  I'm not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.
  
  I don't quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that's more subtle.
  
  X can fuck the duck right off.
  
  I still call it Facebook. Meta is equally stupid as X. Meta as a word already existed in multiple different ways. Now if you say 'that's meta' you have to stop and think, which may be why I've seen that phrase really die out.
  
  The meta rebranding is not as evil as the hostile takeover of Twitter. So I am inclined to accept that name change but I do not know really what using meta means.
  
  I don't use FB, if I did I would still say FB. I use WhatsApp and I don't call that meta. I guess the individual products just keep their names here.
  
  I just don't call it anything. I avoid anything related to Facebook or Meta.
- X is simply too vague.
This employee in question was an executive
- Yeah it’s worth noting that the employee in this case had the resources to fight. Hopefully other regular non-executive employees can use it as precedent for their own lawsuits.
  
  Not sure how different it is in Ireland, but here in Australia you’d have spoken to the fair work ombudsman and they’d go and “fight” this for you.
  
  Seeing as the article says “Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission” handled this, kinda sounds like a similar situation rather than wealth having anything to do with it.
- Ah so an X-ecutive?
  
  An ex-X-ecutive now.
- Of course. Not like they'd order the same for the custodian or whatever. But because they are of high status they get protected.
- Otherwise he would have gotten 1 figure less, and then we would never have heard about him.
It was more fun watching this loser lose before I realized it’s all they really do.
Extremely hardcore.
- Shame it wasn't a class action suit. $600k is peanuts compared to $600k per violation.
  
  my exact thoughts, every single employee who received this email should have sued his ass. You are only required to work as much as your contract details and this a clear instance of workplace bullying
  
  Exactly this has to have happened several times where are all the others fired for this?
This is why I never read my emails.
Now that they won - the effort to collect what they won can start…!
This employee in question was an executive
If coos don't want to their they shouldn't get paid. Or are getting somewhere else
- If coos don't want to their they shouldn't get paid. Or are getting somewhere else
  
  If coos don't want to their they shouldn't get paid.
  
  I think this should be “If COOs don’t want to work there, they shouldn’t get paid”.
  
  Or are getting somewhere else
  
  No idea on this bit. Maybe “or should get a job somewhere else”?
- Did you have 3 strokes while typing that comment?
  
  I have heard that after 3 strokes you are out...
  
  It's very simple. If person fails to do their job you fire them. People supporting there must be a meaning behind
  
  Just 2. I killed more brain cells not defending cops.

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