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.

  • @WallEx@feddit.de
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    811 year ago

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

    What a fucking douche

  • Ekybio
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    451 year ago

    The ammount will not hurt him.

    The damage to his frail ego certainly will.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    311 year ago

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

  • Destide
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    241 year ago

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

    • JohnEdwa
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      261 year ago

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

    • @Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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      71 year 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.

  • Melkath
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    11 year 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.)