Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Off Employees File Claims

Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by HillRat on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:13AM (#36391986)

Musk is also reportedly (as per Puck) refusing to pay JAMS (it's about $3.5mm in filing fees alone for 2K two-party arbitrations, and he's going to spend many multiples of that on attorney fees), so if he makes arbitration impossible through nonpayment then those employees are also going to have to take him to court to either enforce arbitration or allow removal to the court system. Just a clusterfuck on every conceivable level.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by pjc50 on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:19AM (#36392058)

Watching nonpayment in the courts could be entertaining. One of the offices is scheduled for eviction: https://www.techradar.com/news/twitter-is-being-evicted-from... ; not clear if they still have operations there though.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by toomuchtodo on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:24AM (#36392121)

Can someone in Boulder walk over, knock, and report back? 3401 Bluff St, Boulder, CO is the address. Maybe take some photos, don't break any laws of course.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by Melting_Harps on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:17PM (#36392810)

> Can someone in Boulder walk over, knock, and report back? 3401 Bluff St, Boulder, CO is the address. Maybe take some photos, ask some questions, don't break any laws of course (trespassing and whatnot).

Maybe, but I need some BTC to get there on my day off, I can drop by around lunch time and see what the rank and file have to say.

See, who said BTC has no use-case: it continues to fund independent journalism!

Whether you guys are willing to use it is another matter entirely, but it does stuff like this all the time that you are simply not privy to.

I'm calling your bluff, HN: I'll follow up with BTC address if this materializes and will report by end of day with what I found if you make it happen.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by toomuchtodo on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:23PM (#36392884)

Let me know if you'd take Venmo or Zelle instead. I am curious, but not enough to buy bitcoin curious. Probably curious enough to put the gig on Craigslist though.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by Melting_Harps on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:41PM (#36393140)

> Let me know if you'd take Venmo...

I don't but Venmo does offer BTC purchases and transfers natively and seamlessly now[0].

So here is my BTC address [1], you can send 1/2 sats now and 1/2 the sats after it's done (.0019 total) and Ill head out when it hits my wallet and I'll upload to imgur or whatever platform you want with what I find out.

Names will probably have to be left out if they decide to talk on record for obvious reasons.

0: https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/16145303480595-Cryp...

1: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1q42a74y6v8fayky7da...

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:21PM (#36412672)

Office has been closed since December per ground truth sourced locally.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by spacemadness on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:11PM (#36392729)

So will those employees be fired for not working from the office when there is no office?

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by caseysoftware on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:22PM (#36396024)

California changed the law a few years back where if the party that requires arbitration (in almost all cases, the company) doesn't pay their portion, it's an automatic default on their part.

It's a strategy but not a good one.

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