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Elon Is Still Losing Money Over His Twitter Firing Spree

This was a totally foreseeable turn of events.

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The face of wrongful terminations. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

Funny thing about letting the Earth decide — you’ll eventually find out that consequences are global. It is easy to think about Elon’s Twitter meddling as an American problem, but Brazil taking away ~20M Tweeters (Xers?) because Elon failed to appoint a legal representative shows that’s not the case. Managing the world’s public forum means being subject to the world’s laws and an Irish court just ruled that Elon owes a former employee $600k over a wrongful termination. Tododisca has coverage:

A former Twitter employee in Ireland, Gary Rooney, won compensation of approximately US$600,000 after winning a case for unfair dismissal.

Shortly after the “let that sink in” memeing, Elon sent out an email blast asking them to commit to arduous work. If they didn’t respond, they would be kicked off the team with a severance package. Three days later, Twitter’s HR informed Rooney that they assumed his resignation and acceptance of the severance package. Rooney then filed for wrongful termination:

The commission ruled in his favor, noting that Musk’s initial email did not provide clear terms about the changes in working conditions and that there was no evidence that Rooney had voluntarily resigned.

Things that could have been easy predicted by a hardcore litigation department for $300? Each passing day makes it harder for Elon Musk fans to push the angle that he is some 3D chess Tony Stark by another name and not just some monied fool whose companies succeed despite him. Except Twitter — that decline is purely on him.

Elon Musk Must Pay $600,000 To A Former Employee Who Was Fired For Not Replying To An Email [Tododisca]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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