This feels like something that's nice to say, but the semantics and details of it will end up not amounting to much.
But, if even one big case makes waves from it it'll put a significant amount of hesitation in all future possibilities of this happening. So I'll hope he can make it work for at least one, which I feel he will just for the applause and attention.
I thought that as well, but Musk also said that he'd not just help sue the company, but go after the board of directors as well. It seems that he means business.
He does not even need to fund every case. There is an old Chinese saying: "Execute one to deter a hundred others". That's why the backlash against Bud Light is so great, not because it's significant per se.
One such idiom is "kill a chicken to scare the monkeys"- make an example. Take a scalp like what happened to Budweiser and watch all the other companies recoil in fear even during the peak of Pri[de mon]th.
It's just big talk. There's no way XX_LiteralNobody420_XX is going to get Elon Musk to pay his legal bill after getting fired from Panda Express for liking a tweet.
And besides, even if people were fired for Tweet liking, HR is in the business of hiding that stuff like it's crown jewels. Employee fired for something they did on twitter, everyone knows they did, everyone knows why they were fired, but there simply won't be smoking gun evidence of "fire this man for Twitter behavior." Even lazy wine-drunk leftist HR departments do that much correctly.
Yeah I thought this was bizarre primarily because in most states you can be fired for any reason. It's legal to fire people for liking Tweets. He could be thinking from a California mindset though. There is a statute in California that you can't be fired for your political beliefs.
And besides, even if people were fired for Tweet liking, HR is in the business of hiding that stuff like it's crown jewels.
Odds are you are violating some HR policy at work without even knowing it. 15 years ago it was internet use. Everyone spent all day on Facebook and EBay and the company never cared. Until they decided that they wanted to fire you for cause and then they have your browsing logs for the entire time you worked there to use against you. It didn't matter that everyone else was doing it.
I imagine everyone just uses their phone for web browsing now, so computer misuse is probably out of fashion as the de facto "misconduct" used to fire people. I'm sure they've got something new though.
This feels like something that's nice to say, but the semantics and details of it will end up not amounting to much.
But, if even one big case makes waves from it it'll put a significant amount of hesitation in all future possibilities of this happening. So I'll hope he can make it work for at least one, which I feel he will just for the applause and attention.
I thought that as well, but Musk also said that he'd not just help sue the company, but go after the board of directors as well. It seems that he means business.
He does not even need to fund every case. There is an old Chinese saying: "Execute one to deter a hundred others". That's why the backlash against Bud Light is so great, not because it's significant per se.
One such idiom is "kill a chicken to scare the monkeys"- make an example. Take a scalp like what happened to Budweiser and watch all the other companies recoil in fear even during the peak of Pri[de mon]th.
It's just big talk. There's no way XX_LiteralNobody420_XX is going to get Elon Musk to pay his legal bill after getting fired from Panda Express for liking a tweet.
And besides, even if people were fired for Tweet liking, HR is in the business of hiding that stuff like it's crown jewels. Employee fired for something they did on twitter, everyone knows they did, everyone knows why they were fired, but there simply won't be smoking gun evidence of "fire this man for Twitter behavior." Even lazy wine-drunk leftist HR departments do that much correctly.
Yeah I thought this was bizarre primarily because in most states you can be fired for any reason. It's legal to fire people for liking Tweets. He could be thinking from a California mindset though. There is a statute in California that you can't be fired for your political beliefs.
Odds are you are violating some HR policy at work without even knowing it. 15 years ago it was internet use. Everyone spent all day on Facebook and EBay and the company never cared. Until they decided that they wanted to fire you for cause and then they have your browsing logs for the entire time you worked there to use against you. It didn't matter that everyone else was doing it.
I imagine everyone just uses their phone for web browsing now, so computer misuse is probably out of fashion as the de facto "misconduct" used to fire people. I'm sure they've got something new though.