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Now that they won - the effort to collect what they won can start…!
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.
but laws don't apply to billionaires 😭 /s
Well it's not like Musk was fined, the company has to pay.
Since he's the sole owner it's pretty much the same, it's profits (hahahaha) that's not going in his pockets.
I thought Sauia Arabia put up a shed load of cash as well ?
Yep, that wouldn't fly in Canada either lol
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.
Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.
Elon had a cunning plan
Plan? Sure. Cunning? Eh....
Does your filter recognize whitespace? Including a space before and/or after X should catch the posts about the platform while not filtering out posts that just have an X inside a word somewhere. X isn't going to be a single letter surrounded by space unless it's referring to the platform.
i have tried with various formats and unfortunately none of them work, or they just ignore the attempt.
i appreciate you trying to help, though. i honestly just kinda wish it would change names again so it'd be easier to somehow block. lol
This employee in question was an executive
Otherwise he would have gotten 1 figure less, and then we would never have heard about him.
Of course. Not like they'd order the same for the custodian or whatever. But because they are of high status they get protected.
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.
In America the various states have labor boards, but almost no one knows this and gets taken advantage of.
Last thing an employer wants is a call from the labor board. They default to the employee is always right, burden in on the employer to prove otherwise.
Ah so an X-ecutive?
An ex-X-ecutive now.
Ex X executive is fun to say out loud.
XXX-kyootive
If coos don't want to their they shouldn't get paid. Or are getting somewhere else
Did you have 3 strokes while typing that comment?
I have heard that after 3 strokes you are out...
I sure am, that's how I got the nickname, "The flash"
Just 2. I killed more brain cells not defending cops.
What.
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”?
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'm just sad we aren't at calling it "formerly facebook" instead of meta
I just don't call it anything. I avoid anything related to Facebook or 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.
Poor duck.
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.
He literally still called the posts tweets so....
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.
"Trending on Occupied Twitter"
It's just a special capitalist operation!
This is why I never read my emails.
Extremely hardcore.
Shame it wasn't a class action suit. $600k is peanuts compared to $600k per violation.
It was more fun watching this loser lose before I realized it’s all they really do.
