Yep. Having not seen the suit, no idea if it has merit but there are ways to work within WARN to do a layoff and remain compliant to the law. You can still get sued for it. Doesn’t mean the suit will have merit, though.
Scrax
1993
Does every Twitter employee have to sign an NDA upon hire and; if so, when do those time out? Seems like a huge brain drain and potential windfall for competitors. Also, does non-compete come into play? Especially after termination/layoff?
JonRowe
1994
yeah
But Twitter told employees it will continue to provide pay and benefits, even though they are no longer working. An email from Twitter sent to laid off employees in New York and seen by NBC News said Friday was their last “working day” at the company but that they would be paid through their separation date in February.
They are not going to win that lawsuit.
From what I have read, this is what a lot of companies do with the WARN act, is just let people go and provide them pay and benefits for the 60 days “warning time”
Providing someone 60 days notice of firing means getting 60 days of very unproductive work from that employee, better to just have them leave.
What exactly are they going to give to the competitors? Twitter’s, um, amazing tech? It’s, um, massive advertising client list? It’s, um, incredibly effective content moderation tools?
Menzo
1996
I would assume every Twitter employee signs an NDA that lasts in perpetuity. They can never share internal secrets or information with other companies.
I agree with all of this. I moved from the Center right who voted 70% R to complete center with an almost perfect vote 50/50 splitting to 100% democrat. 10% of this is because my positions evolve P&R gets credit/blame for much of this and the craziness of the Republican party is responsible for the other 90%
The other thing that has changed is the intensity of the political discussion. For a minority of the population has become an all-consuming obsession. I’d say pretty much all of us regulars at P&R are at least pretty far down the path.
But even QT3, those of us who post primarily on P&R are in a minority. I’d be interested in the views by category Games, Movies, P&R, perhaps @tomchick can provide it. I wouldn’t be shocked if P&R had the most posts, but I bet that total views of P&R are less than 50% of the site views.
Now back to Twitter, discussing politics is only one activity that people do on Twitter, and I’m sure it is in the minority. I know I spent 5 years on the platform on a separate account and might only see one political tweet a week, and I might respond to one a month. Now after 2016 the frequency of political tweets on my non-political account has increased, but it is still a minority.
As someone said, Twitter has become a hangout of journalists and others who never learned about forums or Reddit. The thing is Twitter as a platform for discovering has devolved, especially as the use of hashtags has decreased. So for instance searching #strategygames gets you pretty piss poor results compared to running that same search on Reddit or QT3.
I said on Twitter about the 3,000 Twitter Engineers. "To paraphrase, Churchill; Never in the course of engineering history, has so little been done, by so many, for so long.’ Whatever, Elon’s many flaws I don’t think he’ll let the remaining 1,500 engineers or so do so little in the future.
I think the most valuable thing that Twitter engineers have is that know that C isn’t just a letter of the alphabet and Python isn’t always a snake.
jpinard
1999
If I were a car manufacturer, there’s no way in hell I’d want to advertise on Twitter anymore, in essence supporting their competitor.
Timex
2000
I’d also point out that the “right” wing really has no ideological foundation at all at this point.
They are certainly more extreme, but I wouldn’t say that they are more extreme in their belief of traditionally conservative ideals. For instance, now you have major parts of that group who now embrace populist bullshit and hate globalism and corporatism… But then they also love corporations in some cases.
There’s no rational way to situate all of their conflicting trash, beyond maybe “grift idiots to seize and hold power through undemocratic means”.
I’m sure there are some form of NDA involved, but non-competes are virtually always invalid in California.
ShivaX
2002
And then they cheer for the government punishing corporations for wrongthink.
The left always said that conservatism was just a thin veneer over the racism. Turns out for most people they were right. The conservatism was jettisoned in under a year and almost no one gave a shit.
That is a good point. I think I have seen car company ads on Twitter, but since ads on Twitter are so forgettable I could be wrong.
Ian Miles Cheong. Our shared qt3 shame. ;)
Timex
2006
Wasn’t that the dude who got infested with ants?
This is a gem of a paragraph in a NY Times article.
Maybe I’m mis-remembering, but waaaaaaaay back in the day, I think he posted here. Can never remember his account name, other than I used to confuse his account name with the game solium infernum.
If it’s whom I’m remembering, he either got banned, or got warned and then left and never came back.
DoubleG
2010
Amazing, he’s so infamous on Twitter
I think he found us through NeoGAF back in the day, and then GamerGate really galvanized and helped develop/reinforce his worst tendencies as a human.
