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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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[–] [email protected] 82 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

What a fucking douche

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yep, looks like Phony Stark is at it again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nice one, I'll be using that :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Space Karen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Feel free :) (I’m not the origin BTW)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The ammount will not hurt him.

The damage to his frail ego certainly will.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

For Elon, ego-death is just death.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried being European?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Where's the fun in that?

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 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.)