Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher
by whimsicalism on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:10AM
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You claimed:
> If someone walks away with 8-digit sums, there were contracts involved
The NYT article is pretty unequivocal that that is false, even if you want to pull out quotes talking about different issues.
> paying them millions of dollars as they departed, even though it had no legal obligation to do so.
They had no legal obligation to pay the severance.
If you want to discuss a different reason to pay $90 million to someone fired for sexual harassment, fine.
But your original comment was unequivocally wrong, let's just recognize that.
Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher
by stickfigure on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:47PM
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Nonsense. Implied contracts are still contracts - they wouldn't be worried about avoiding a "messy and costly legal fight" otherwise.
In settling on terms favorable to two of the men, Google protected its own interests. The company avoided messy and costly legal fights, and kept them from working for rivals as part of the separation agreements.
Real life isn't a melodrama. I suspect there's plenty of nuance here.