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Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X.

Because he didn't want to pay their severance, the executives say Musk "made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various companies to uphold his decision."

The lawsuit says not paying severance and bills is part of a pattern for Musk, who's been sued by "droves" of former rank-and-file Twitter employees who didn't receive severance after Musk terminated them by the thousands.

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[–] WallEx@feddit.de 82 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thats how you get filthy rich, by exploiting everyone and everything around you.

What a fucking douche

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yep, looks like Phony Stark is at it again.

[–] The_wild_card@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let me do you better one Phony stank

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] The_wild_card@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

No just phony stank

[–] WallEx@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nice one, I'll be using that :D

[–] Psychonaut1969@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Space Karen

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Feel free :) (I’m not the origin BTW)

[–] Ekybio@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The ammount will not hurt him.

The damage to his frail ego certainly will.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I hope it shatters his paper thin ego. Fucking leech on society with a God complex.

[–] Ekybio@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

For Elon, ego-death is just death.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Alternate take : I wish I were entitled to severance and reasons, should I be fired.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried being European?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know, if we all rent a boat and go together they won't be able to stop us all.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can just immigrate normally. It's not that hard for Americans.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 8 months ago

Where's the fun in that?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

128 million is approximately 0.061% of 210.47 billion his current worth. ​So basically a dollar to Elon

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 27 points 8 months ago

Who wants to bet a dollar that he throws a temper tantrum about it and refuses to pay?

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

It wouldn't be him paying though, it would be twitter/x. It was twitter at the time they got fired. X can certainly not afford to pay that since they are unprofitable as it is.

The Saudis can afford to pay it. Elon might not want to go to their embassy parties in Türkiye though.

[–] The_wild_card@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not a dollar unless you are comparing him to a very poor man

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The math was for 1500 a month which to me seems about average

[–] The_wild_card@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Ahh i thought you were doing networth

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid severance payments.

Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X.

Because he didn't want to pay their severance, the executives say Musk "made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various companies to uphold his decision."

"Under Musk's control, Twitter has become a scofflaw, stiffing employees, landlords, vendors, and others," says the lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of California.

The former executives claim their severance plans entitled them to one year's salary plus unvested stock awards valued at the acquisition price of Twitter.

According to the lawsuit, the only cause Musk gave for the firings was "gross negligence and willful misconduct," in part because Twitter paid fees to outside attorneys for their work closing the acquisition.


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[–] Melkath@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

How many people did they fire without severance?

They're just butt-hurt that the severance that they built into the company for themselves and not for others was not afforded to them.

A bigger fish came along and gave them a taste of their own medicine.

Fuck 'em.

(Unless someone else comes along and proves to me that everyone fired from twitter by Elon or these 4 got 32 million dollars in severance each.)