Any ex-Tesla employees willing to take up an offer? 😜

  • @Motavader@lemmy.world
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    1222 years ago

    Perhaps he’s forgotten that free speech means you’re free to say whatever you want, but you’re not free from the repercussions. Especially in all the “at will” employee states.

    This is so stupid.

    • @mindbleach@lemmy.world
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      712 years ago

      “At will” is pure conservative bullshit, right down to the name being a lie that makes “fired for illegal reasons but wink wink doesn’t count” harmful to even discuss.

      No relation to Musk’s stupidity. Just picking a nit.

      • @Motavader@lemmy.world
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        152 years ago

        That’s exactly what I mean. Employees in At Will states can legally be fired for anything short of violations of protected classes, so I’m not sure how he’s expecting to win here.

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          Musk’s philosophy is apparently: if it’s not okay to fire someone for being trans, a woman or for their race, why is it okay to fire someone for being anti-trans, misogynistic or racist?

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          it’s on the fired employee to prove it was because of those protected reasons and be able to fight it after the fact in court.

          That goes for every other state also soooo…?

    • @el_cordoba@lemmy.world
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      92 years ago

      Stupid? Definitely. A play out of Trump’s playbook? Kinda. Normally Trump is the one that gets sued.

      They will probably look to get small to mid size employers to settle in order to avoid a costly legal battles. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all just a ploy to keep his fanboys in line.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      52 years ago

      He has never faced any consequences for anything. He didn’t forget that, it’s never applied to him.

    • @Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      He knows exactly what free speech means. But now he releases he may be able to make more money if people didn’t have it.

  • @Veedem@lemmy.world
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    1072 years ago

    He’ll never actually do it. He simply wants to encourage more people to say outrageous things so engagement levels increase as everyone does dumb shit.

    Good luck to anyone who falls for this.

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        52 years ago

        They didn’t come up with a plan and when he asked they were like 🤷‍♂️

      • @abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works
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        Aid spokesman engaged hyperbole drive and tweeted “if a billionaire like @musk gave us $40bn we could solve world hunger”

        Musk replied “ok i’m listening, show me how you can solve it, if it sounds real I’ll write the cheque”

        Aid spokesman (back pedalling) “well not solve as such, but definitely make better”

        Musk “whatevs then”

        I mean he does say so much actual stupid shit, why do you guys keep making shit up ?

        Edit to add not verbatim I can’t be arsed to go find the tweets now he’s fucked twitter

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      52 years ago

      It’s possible. He literally burnt an extra 150 million dollars by bumping his offer for twitter to 54.20 just to make it a stupid 420 meme. It’s not like he doesn’t have the money to pay those bills.

  • @db2@sopuli.xyz
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    602 years ago

    He’s not offering it to former employees, but they should absolutely go for it very very publicly. Musk is fishing for money from Trump and Kanye, it’s probably some kind of laundering scheme.

    • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      Musk is fishing for money from Trump

      Trump is very obviously not coming back to Twitter, doesn’t have an employer, and he’s offering to pay for the service, not charge for it, so I’m not sure how that theory pans out.

  • Hildegarde
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    462 years ago

    The kid can’t even pay his own rent, how’s he going to afford legal fees?

    • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      72 years ago

      They are actually responsible for paying arbitration for all the ex-employees suing the company after Twitter argued in court that they must go through arbitration. Last I heard was that they were having trouble paying these legal costs as well.

  • @odbol@lemmy.world
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    452 years ago

    Didn’t he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      I find it fascinating to watch overall, but yeah how billionaires decide to administer their website isn’t really technology. Categorizing it as such feels like a consequence of a decision some boomer made back in the 90s to administer their newspaper that got adopted by default as the method websites are administered (which still isn’t technology).

  • Hextic
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    372 years ago

    A Musk (or Trump) Never pays his debts.

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    Is it the same guy who barely can afford to pay the servers and owes wherever he looks?

    If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: Don’t count on him actually paying something for you.

    • @sour@feddit.de
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      362 years ago

      If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: You should count on him actually paying for you. Go wild! But make sure to use your public profile so people don’t think you’re a bot!

  • @mindbleach@lemmy.world
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    292 years ago

    Two fantasies - one, that anybody’s been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.

    People don’t get fired for where they post.

    People get fired for what they post.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen
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    262 years ago

    He doesn’t even pay his own bills. What makes people believe he’ll actually pay theirs? He may pay one person’s bill at first to get a flurry of news attention, but he’ll definitely leave everyone else out to rot.

  • Whiskey Pickle
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    252 years ago

    he won’t even pay his rent or his own legal bills… he stiffs his own employees on severance packages. he’s lying if he promises anything.