General > General Technical Chat

Elon Musk is a nice chap

<< < (258/312) > >>

Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 17, 2022, 12:32:38 am ---Elon's lost it again.

Banned the Musk Jet account, promising to sue the creator, and then banning loads of journalists for tweeting about it.  Involved in a debate in the 'Spaces' feature, which he ragequit after getting loads of questions from journalists, and then axed the entire feature afterwards which deleted the recording (fortunately, someone screencap'd the whole thing)


--- End quote ---

   LOL!  The creator of the Musk Jet account lives literally less than two miles from me and goes to the same Comp Sci school that I graduated from. I've been following his belly aching on the local news for almost a year now.  Elon asked him to take the Musk Jet page down months ago and offered him $5,000 to do so. But the little turd decided to be greedy and demanded $50,000. So Elon took him down instead!  :-DD

  As far as I'm concerned the stupid kid was a cyber stalker and attempted to blackmail Elon and he got what he deserved.  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

james_s:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on December 17, 2022, 02:52:29 am ---   In the first place, severance isn't required by law.  And he wouldn't be the first, or the last, employer to not give their employees what they promised them.  My father in law used to say about situations like that that was when two fools meet. The one that made the promise and the one that believed them. 

   But, second, if I was Elon I wouldn't be paying any severance to the employees that simply walked off of the job either.  And in their own very public admissions, that's exactly what many of the Twitter employees did.

--- End quote ---

Severance isn't required by law, but if you offer it and someone takes you up on that offer, as far as I know that is legally binding. From what we saw publicly he sent out an email that said employees had until a deadline to click something, and failure to do that would be taken as resignation and they would get severance. It's possible that is not exactly how it played out, but if it did, then simply not clicking that link by the deadline constitutes resignation, not just walking off the job.

Psi:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 17, 2022, 03:13:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on December 17, 2022, 02:52:29 am ---   In the first place, severance isn't required by law.  And he wouldn't be the first, or the last, employer to not give their employees what they promised them.  My father in law used to say about situations like that that was when two fools meet. The one that made the promise and the one that believed them. 

   But, second, if I was Elon I wouldn't be paying any severance to the employees that simply walked off of the job either.  And in their own very public admissions, that's exactly what many of the Twitter employees did.

--- End quote ---

Severance isn't required by law, but if you offer it and someone takes you up on that offer, as far as I know that is legally binding. From what we saw publicly he sent out an email that said employees had until a deadline to click something, and failure to do that would be taken as resignation and they would get severance. It's possible that is not exactly how it played out, but if it did, then simply not clicking that link by the deadline constitutes resignation, not just walking off the job.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, its complex though because the law is different in many countries and twitter is multinational.
Trying to figure out what you can do legally to your employees that span 15 countries is a time consuming task.
Even if you checked into the issue previously the laws may have changed.
(15 just used as example, i don't know what it actually is)

Psi:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on December 17, 2022, 03:08:28 am ---But the little turd decided to be greedy and demanded $50,000. So Elon took him down instead!  :-DD
As far as I'm concerned the stupid kid was a cyber stalker and attempted to blackmail Elon and he got what he deserved.  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

--- End quote ---

Yeah, using public data (or non-public data that is trivial to obtain) for the purpose of realtime tracking of someone is being a dick and can be dangerous.
No one should have to deal with that.
I know there is something in the law in some countries about public facing people having to accept some amount of less anonymity vs regular people.
But providing a realtime tracking service for anyone shouldn't be allowed for any person without their permission.

vad:

--- Quote from: Psi on December 17, 2022, 03:54:10 am ---Yeah, using public data (or non-public data that is trivial to obtain) for the purpose of realtime tracking of someone is being a dick and can be dangerous.

--- End quote ---
Absolutely. The Musk’s next purchase must be flightradar24, followed by lobbying global crackdown on ADS-B.

Thanks God Elon does not own a yacht.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

There was an error while thanking
Thanking...
Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod