Now, instead of paying Rooney the draft severance amount worth a little more than $25,000, Twitter, which is now called X, has to pay Rooney more than $600,000
lol. lmao.
I always worder if these sums include the fee of the lawyer. Would really be a much smaller payout if true.
It shouldn’t, generally the order will be worded something like "The plaintiff has been awarded $xxxxx.xx + legal fees " as in whatever legal fees they accrued the defendant will have to pay in addition
But then again, what do I know IANAL lol
Oh and he overpaid because he wanted the per-stock purchase stock to have the “420” gag. So instead of paying $53 per stock, he paid $54.20. That’s a total of $150 million more for a stupid joke.
“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk wrote in the all-staff email. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
This is so fucking cringy.
So the opposition of chill. Like wtf is the big rush, are aliens invading and unless our social media is shoestring enough they’ll obliterate us?
Can’t believe this guy thinks he has anything meaningful to contribute to humanities future other than scaling up grind
It’s the attitude of a rich and entitled loser who thinks they know what “hard work” means without ever engaging in it themselves. These morons use language like this to, in their mind, weed out the weak and lazy, but in reality it just sounds deranged and is a massive red flag to any employee with a functioning brain.
Is he willing to pay for those extra hours?
Many companies promote a work culture where heroic employees are supposed do long hours for free just because good employees are passionate about their job. That’s just exploitation.
Surely the grand objective of, as he puts it:
build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world
means it’s just as much worth it for him to pay overtime and/or hire more people as it is for others to “work long hours at high intensity”
Unless, of course, he was bullshitting and being an hypocrite.
I was thinking “this wouldn’t be successful in the USA”, and yep, it’s in a country with proper workers’ rights (Ireland).
No doubt some of the other affected employees in Ireland (35 of them according to the article) will sue Twitter too.
Imagine taking pride in this fucking gold plated cesspool we call the US.
It boggles the mind.
Ireland has attracted many tech companies including Twitter, and the latter has a massive employment footprint here.
I wouldn’t mind corporate tax breaks to public companies (like ireland gives) as long as the gov’t taxes private wealth enough to fund decent social programs like Ireland.
My experience living and working across Europe, including The Netherlands which is pretty similar to Ireland, is that the result of a low corporate tax system for the common people is to end up paying high personal taxes whilst getting inferior public services: it really stands out just how bad the public services are for the amount of personal taxes one pays in a place like The Netherlands compared to other countries in Europe.
The low corporate tax scheme can work for city states and similarly tiny nations (Singapore, Luxemburg, Cayman Islands and so on) probably because the additional jobs they bring do make a lot of difference in a place with so few people, but it doesn’t seem to work all that well in nations that aren’t micro (though the trickery of counting the passing-through profits from whole continents of those large companies in the local GDP of the low corporate tax nation, does allow politicians there to swindle the Economically-uneducated and claim they made the country “grow”).
