Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff

Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by bigmattystyles on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:19PM (#34839973)

I know it likely depends on the company, but in general, does severance usually have a stipulation that if the company needs something from you in the next few months, you have to cooperate? If not, I'd either try to extract a lot of money to consult or depending on my personal situation tell them I'm not interested in helping; perhaps not so politely.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by siggen on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:40PM (#34840244)

Does not. Probably not legal in the US, but IANAL.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by upon_drumhead on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:56PM (#34840457)

Actually, given how companies manage the WARN act, I'd wager they actually do. Often they keep an employee on the books for the 90 days as an employee, just with no responsibilities. I would presume changing the responsibilities would be no different then being re-assigned to a different team.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by fbdab103 on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:28PM (#34843580)

Yeah, but they have lost all leverage. If employee refuses to assist, its not like the company can fire them or withdraw the severance. No sticks left and only carrots. For which a very big carrot would be appropriate.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by hotpotamus on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:51PM (#34841709)

I wouldn't think so. What generally happens is they'll give a couple months to the exit date for handover with severance dependent on you making it to that date.

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