<story><title>I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter</title><url>https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1610760987996749824</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Suing a company is typically not beneficial for the worker or ex worker.  Unless the payout is greater than what remains of your lifetime earnings projections.  A person with litigious history carries a kind of scarlet letter around their neck.  No one wants to risk being the next target.&lt;p&gt;Think: would you want to bring on a cofounder who sued their previous cofounder?  Maybe you would, but many would have second thoughts too.</text></item><item><author>hijinks</author><text>remember people, most employment lawyers work on contingency for this reason. They only get paid if you win. Most people don&amp;#x27;t know that and think it&amp;#x27;ll be too expensive to take on their old company</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I would absolutely hire somebody who sued Twitter for failing to pay what was owed. In a heartbeat. I like working with people with character; you can trust them to let you know when something isn&amp;#x27;t right.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, I&amp;#x27;d look very carefully at anybody who stayed at Twitter well into the Musk era. As I did people who were at Uber during the Travis era. Sometimes decent people have good reasons for working for bad execs. (E.g., I hear a lot of the SpaceX people see putting up with Musk as a necessary evil for getting to work on something they care so much about.) But sometimes they are clue-deficient or lack a moral core, and those people require too much close supervision for my tastes.</text></comment>
<story><title>I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter</title><url>https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1610760987996749824</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Suing a company is typically not beneficial for the worker or ex worker.  Unless the payout is greater than what remains of your lifetime earnings projections.  A person with litigious history carries a kind of scarlet letter around their neck.  No one wants to risk being the next target.&lt;p&gt;Think: would you want to bring on a cofounder who sued their previous cofounder?  Maybe you would, but many would have second thoughts too.</text></item><item><author>hijinks</author><text>remember people, most employment lawyers work on contingency for this reason. They only get paid if you win. Most people don&amp;#x27;t know that and think it&amp;#x27;ll be too expensive to take on their old company</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>htag</author><text>A high profile situation like this might be a different case.  If this is happening to many former employees, and it reaches class action, then there will be a lot of press about the subject.  You wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to explain why you brought the lawsuit, and everyone would have an understanding of the situation.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the point of being able to free to file a lawsuit if you practically can&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;What would you think of someone that wouldn&amp;#x27;t fight for themselves when they were lied to and cheated?</text></comment>