Any ex-Tesla employees willing to take up an offer? 😜
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.
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.
He will have to sue HIMSELF! diabolical!
Suing himself is the only way he’ll win a Twitter-related lawsuit.
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.
He has never faced any consequences for anything. He didn’t forget that, it’s never applied to him.
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.
Forgot? He never knew.
“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.
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.
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…?
No, they can be fired for those reasons, 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.
When an employer can choose to go into as little detail as “you’re fired because I said so” it takes a very stupid employer to lose that fight.
It helps if you still have friends that work at the company, that can kind of spy for you too.
An older woman was fired from the company I worked at in the early 2000s, and she was friends with a few people that still worked at the company. Found out she was replaced with a younger less qualified guy, and her friends were able to corroborate a lot of the ageism/sexism stuff, and she won the suit. Think she ended up being awarded something like whatever her salary was until the age of retirement, and ended up with close to a million dollar settlement.
Wow! Getting fired was the best move of her career then.
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?
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.
Everybody is (rightly) saying this is a bullshit PR move and that he’ll never pay.
Then why are you up voting this?
If we all know it’s meaningless bs and non-news, downvote it. Stop giving it attention. Stop giving it the eyeballs and newscycles that he wants.
Any content aggregator would be better if people actually voted down meaningless drivel thats clearly PR internet bait
“This story can’t be major news, it wasn’t even on the front page of Lemmy.world!”
Definitely how the news cycle works
I don’t understand your post.
It was on my front page. But it’s meaningless bullshit. I’m disappointed at the community for upvoting it this much.
Being on the front page of your instance of lemmy is not noteworthy and no amount of readership here affects the news cycle as a whole.
Didn’t he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?
Yeah but he called a free speech absolutist timeout.
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.
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.
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!
what a clown 🤡
LOL
Imagine Elon Musk actually fucking PAYING HIS DEBTS
YEAH PAL PULL THE OTHER ONE
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter.
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk said in a post on X late on Saturday, adding that there will be no limits to funding the bills.
“And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk said later in response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the US faster than a threat of legal action.
The figures came as the company is going through organizational changes and is looking to boost falling advertising revenue.
After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app”.
Earlier in July, the billionaire whose other companies include SpaceX and Tesla had said that the social media platform’s cashflow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
good bot!
The kid can’t even pay his own rent, how’s he going to afford legal fees?
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.
This modafucka can’t even pay his own company’s bills on time.
A Musk (or Trump) Never pays his debts.
Alexa, play “The Rains of
CastMuskamere”
He may offer to pay the legal bills, but he won’t do it.
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.
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.
