Elon Musk’s 24-hour email ultimatum unfairly dismissed Twitter staff, court says.
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Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K
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Musk losing roughly 30 Billion in value due to his Twitter mishandling seems fair.
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Twitter will just refuse to pay, and drag it in courts, while Elon calls out those ex-staffers in a bunch of tweets, and brigades his army of weird fans at them. I guess I'm a pessimist, but I just don't expect any justice anymore. Elon always gets away with everything, he's too rich.
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“Given his abhorrent and illegal treatment of employees, it would be fair for Musk to be fired, fined, and possibly face criminal charges”.
Does that work?
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I would assume for that much money the Court Bailiffs would be all over sizing assets.
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Id guess it more likely that the reason was that he quietly paid.
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Like so many tech companies, Twitter spent years with people pumping money to cover the losses as it grew. So it had plenty of cash when Musk bought it. I don't think that has run out yet.
But it will. Then Musk has to choose between letting Twitter go bankrupt or selling shares of his other companies to put money into Twitter. Both could be bad for the price of Tesla stock.
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OrangeCream
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Why not? He is a terrible human being and deserves to be disliked.
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Remember we Europeans typically aren't paid as much as USAians because we don't need to cover crazy medical costs or tuition fees, and we have comparatively solid employment rights.
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Not just that, but in many countries the 40-50% tax on your salary that goes directly to the state isn't actually considered part of your salary in many countries (which is also why it seems that scandinavia has such high salaries compared to other similar EU countries). For some reason this is often omitted in salary comparisons and I don't know why.
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So you're saying the staff at TwitterX have been trained to click on any email links that say "Click here if you don't want to be fired"?
Hmmmm....
Hmmmm....
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Twitter was evicted from is Boulder office last year for unpaid rent.
https://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy...victed-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/
The Crown Estate sued over the London HQ, now it was a civil case so the outcome is not public however they were likely forced to pay under threat of asset seizure since later that year twitter appointed JLL to sublease 100,000 sq ft of the space.
The wheels of justice turn slowly but in reasonable jurisdictions they do turn.
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At first I was aghast at your implication... but then I felt more like this:
edited: removed the spoiler tag as it was only smudging the pic and not replacing with a "spoiler" click through.
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You, uh, don't even dislike Elon Musk? Sure, hate is a little strong as a word choice.
But dislike? He bought Twitter specifically to reinstate bigots and reward them for their bigotries. Like, that was his stated purpose.
That's pretty dislikeable, IMHO. He's like world famous for being a hypocritical jackass, one who serially sexually harasses his employees. Oh, and he made Tesla into Tesla, but now it's just TSLA instead of being a car company.
Pretty dislikeable fellow, if you ask me.
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No one who is not desperate to get some money for their starving family should work for Musk.
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OrangeCream
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Twitter can liquidate then.
That’s untrue. Twitter was a profitable company.
An IPO is another option.
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For my Transpondian friends.
I realize that some of you have elections coming up. With a pair of Elon Musk/Peter Theil endorsed candidates.
Choose wisely.
I realize that some of you have elections coming up. With a pair of Elon Musk/Peter Theil endorsed candidates.
Choose wisely.
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UK Civil collections are fairly strong. IIRC Delta Airlines found out the hard way that Bailiffs can block your checkin counters until you pay.
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Another IPO would mean more investors, who would demand that Musk take actions to make Twitter more profitable. Which would mean Musk would have to please advertisers to get them back.
I can't see Musk giving up that much control.
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Don't tech companies keep their IP and money in Ireland to help with the
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At least he's not in charge of the oxygen supply. Well, that is, so far?
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And to not take 2+ years to adjudicate "click yes or you're fired and forfeit everything."
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I am honestly concerned and shocked that it seems no one is reporting that a right wing fixer has been making claims that Elon is giving them access to DMs of opponents.
I even sent the evidence to an Ars writer and never received a response.
I even sent the evidence to an Ars writer and never received a response.
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Particularly since they could be laughing hysterically (possibly correctly) thinking that they can just ignore it.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politic...-of-retribution-at-the-republican-convention/
Realized I should share the story.
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And in 2020 won the case against the EU declaring Irish tax law to be retroactively illegal since the EU does not have that ability/right (generally speaking retroactive applications of law do not survive a challenge since it punishes entities for doing things that were legal up to that point). Since that until 2014 when the EU forced Ireland to close the loophole it was very much legal according to Irish tax law. And the EU could in no way or form decide what Irish tax law is without Irish consent.
This was not so much a "No thanks" to a multi billion windfall as a statement of sovereignty with Ireland denying the EU the right to determine something vital for a country, their tax policy. At least not without a proper framework that Ireland (and other countries in the EU) agreed on, on how to implement such interference.
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Aren't your taxes higher, though? (I ask with true interest, not trying to play "gotcha".)
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone shown evidence that Musk himself clicked on that link?
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Refusal to pay will result in asset being seized and sold to get the money for the penalty.
As spiteful as Musk has shown himself to be he will appeal and keep doing that until he runs out of courts.
Not anymore. The Double Irish with a Dutch was basically discontinued in 2010 with a change in Irish tax law so you merely needed to do the Double Irish trick. The EU negotiated with Ireland so that in from 2015 on the Double Irish loophole was closed as well with a grace period for existing users until 2020. At this point there is no point to use Ireland for tax evasion other then the lower general tax percentage compared to other countries.
Yes. But that is usually already incorporated when people say they earn X amount, that is the net they receive in their bank account. The tax office sends an invoice with the difference between that and what you do need to pay once a year (if you are a citizen) since it doesn't include for example the rebate you can get, where I live, for having a mortgage on your home or non work related income.
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