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I'm not standing up for Zoom by pointing out their right to fire someone, I'm just acknowledging the situation as-is. It's not a stance. Most of these reaction

I'm not standing up for Zoom by pointing out their right to fire someone, I'm just acknowledging the situation as-is. It's not a stance. Most of these reactions are to the 2nd half of the tweet, not to the leaked document. I think you are missing this key aspect. "Anyone have recommendations for wrongful termination lawyers based in California?" I wouldn't recommend anyone to him because there's no wrongful termination here. It's not being on moral high ground to point this out.

martimarkov 5y ago
So you know the contract he has signed in order to claim there is no wrongful termination? Or maybe CA employment law? Maybe he went to Zoom and told them about this and they said -it’s okay to post it. Given that I, like most others, don’t know it either - there could be grounds. It’s very shortsighted to dismiss someone based on your priors and bias.
- treesknees 5y ago
  You can make up as many what-if scenarios as you wish, at the end of the day someone asked for legal advice in a (now deleted) Tweet about not complying with his company's request while working in an at-will state. I think he, unfortunately, had to learn the hard way that distributing illegal documents on a Twitter account with a bio that associates your employer isn't going to go over well.
dogleash 5y ago
Why wouldn't you recommend a lawyer to someone who wasn't legally wronged, but feels they may have been? What's wrong with pointing someone to a professional consultation in this scenario?
- treesknees 5y ago
  It seems pretty clear to me that this was nothing but a move to either get free representation or to generate outrage among his technical peers. Maybe a tweet "in the moment" because he just feels entitled, like Zoom owes him something. The Tweet has been deleted, if he really felt justified or in need of a lawyer, it'd still be up.

martimarkov 5y ago

So you know the contract he has signed in order to claim there is no wrongful termination? Or maybe CA employment law? Maybe he went to Zoom and told them about this and they said -it’s okay to post it. Given that I, like most others, don’t know it either - there could be grounds. It’s very shortsighted to dismiss someone based on your priors and bias.

treesknees 5y ago
You can make up as many what-if scenarios as you wish, at the end of the day someone asked for legal advice in a (now deleted) Tweet about not complying with his company's request while working in an at-will state. I think he, unfortunately, had to learn the hard way that distributing illegal documents on a Twitter account with a bio that associates your employer isn't going to go over well.

dogleash 5y ago

Why wouldn't you recommend a lawyer to someone who wasn't legally wronged, but feels they may have been? What's wrong with pointing someone to a professional consultation in this scenario?

treesknees 5y ago
It seems pretty clear to me that this was nothing but a move to either get free representation or to generate outrage among his technical peers. Maybe a tweet "in the moment" because he just feels entitled, like Zoom owes him something. The Tweet has been deleted, if he really felt justified or in need of a lawyer, it'd still be up.