Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company.
  • g0nz0li0@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    126·
    2 years ago

    Twitter no longer has a media relations department. The company responded to a request for comment with a poop emoji.

  • Candybar121@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    2 years ago

    It really is hilarious how quickly Elon went from a cool guy to being the worlds biggest loser 😂😂

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Meh, his base still loves him. Like Trump, this is considered a “smart move business men do” and those getting fucked “are losers for allowing it to happen”.

      • paintbucketholder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        2 years ago

        I think his base has shifted, though. Used to be people who were interested in technology, in space exploration, in green and sustainable technology, etc.

        Now a significant part of his fan base are people that decided he’s their hero after he purchased Twitter and then unblocked white supremacists, Nazis, racists, white nationalists, fascists, conspiracy theorists, xenophobes, etc. and decided to harass, block, and mock middle-of-the-road journalists, national public media, and use all the far right dog whistles and megaphones.

        So yeah, he still has a lot of support - but it’s not the same support he had 10 years ago.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I was never a fanboy of his but I am still a spacex fanboy. Lucky everything I read he really was only involved in the beginning. Asked me say five years ago I would have said something like “yeah he does some cool projects”.

          • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            “yeah he does owns some cool projects”

            FTFY He only owns those things. There’s interviews around about how at the beginning the only way SpaceX could get anything off the ground was by gaslighting the Muskrat into hyper-focusing on something irrelevant while actual engineers solved the hard problems. Management had what they called Elon’s “handlers”, whose job was to keep him off critical things and whose motto was “just let him take credit for it”.

            • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              I didn’t know that 5 years ago :/

              Look, I really was never a fanboy of his. I am an engineer and I have seen his type enough. The good version of his type does their job which is sell sell sell, smooth things over, and cheerlead a bit. The bad version, well you get to see that on the news every day.

              Yes we have a good type of version of him at my job. He dresses well, binges Ted Talks, and got me a new laptop when mine was running slow. He can have all the credit, I get all the glory.

      • Cabrio@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Funny how it’s only ever spectators that think like that because they’ve never had a dog in the race.

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          That’s how conservatives view everything. Anything other people think is a problem or want to change, NO WAY, it’s your fault, “personal responsibility, and so on. But as soon as they’re personally affected by something, oh wow! It turns out say, being forced into bankruptcy from medical bills or whatever actually is a problem and they’re really concerned about it.

    • graphite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      2 years ago

      Eh, I wouldn’t say loser. He still has billions of dollars.

      A dick move though for sure.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    2 years ago

    Like his buddy Donald, Elon seems to have a real problem paying his bills.

    • ForgetReddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      2 years ago

      If we had a functioning government it would liquidate his assets and pay it out to those he refused to pay.

      • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        2 years ago

        We do have a functioning government. I requires claims to be tried in court instead of just taking $500 million dollars away without any sort of due process.

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    2 years ago

    The same CEO who didn’t understand the law when purchasing Twitter, also didn’t understand employment law when unceremoniously dumping employees?!

    There’s a big surprise. Like Iago, I’m about to have a heart attack and die of “not surprise”.

  • Bizzacore@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    He’s proving day after day, that no matter how much money he has, he wants nothing more than to be a terminally online shitposter.

    Everyone who called him a “loser” in this thread, is 1,000% correct.

  • xc2215x@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    2 years ago

    That is so unfortunate to see from Twitter. Elon has made things worse.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

    Never gonna happen.

    This will probably settle out of court, the lawyers will get 1/2 the settlement and the thousands of employees involved will a few hundred bucks each. If that.