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Unfortunately this is well within corporate “go away” money. They’ll gladly dish over 75k to get a threat off their books. It’s the corporate equivalent to stuf
by ianai 4y ago
Unfortunately this is well within corporate “go away” money. They’ll gladly dish over 75k to get a threat off their books. It’s the corporate equivalent to stuffing 20 bucks in your pocket in case you’re held up while out on a run and don’t carry your wallet. Add a zero to make it 750k if you want corporations to think about it deeper.
- galangalalgol 4y agomost people i know don't keep cash even in their wallet. Do people even want credit cards or IDs? Even phones track themselves and turn off. What do muggers take these days?
- nerdponx 4y agoDebit cards and cash, for one. They also will just take the entire wallet and figure out what's valuable later. Also historically there have been ways to unlock stolen phones so they can be resold "cleanly" later. I don't know what current iPhones are like, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible with Android phones.
- s1artibartfast 4y ago>Less than a week after the plaintiff was fired, the Rijswijk branch of Chetu Inc. was deregistered from the Chamber of Commerce and shut down on 2 September, records show. The branch was first registered in the Netherlands on 1 June 2013 with the capital declared at 10 million euros.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoThat doesn’t mean they won’t pay him. Only that they don’t plan to hire in the Netherland anymore. It would be pretty stupid to not pay to be honest. It’s not that much money, would mean keeping an open case in the UE and it’s highly likely they would end up paying anyway though one of the collection mechanisms in place for this kind of case.
- ianai 4y agoOr they’re telling an entire country to “go away” and that’s a big enough indictment against their practices itself. And market power.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI'm sure they will still accept contracts from the Netherlands, they just won't hire anyone locally. It happens all the time.
- denton-scratch 4y agoHmmm. The advantage to Chetu of not paying is that other staff get the message that Chetu doesn't pay out, even if you win.
- lucb1e 4y agoKeep in mind that this is not about punishment but about damages. 75k goes a long way for an individual and afaik we don't have this system of punitive damages. The state might collect punitive money in a criminal case (not a civil case). Sometimes I feel like it might be good to meet in the middle (i.e. some amount of punishment awarded to the plaintiff, also as compensation for having had to take a corporation to court and presumably spending months in stress), but then I'm not sure where the line should be. Or perhaps a criminal case should be joined onto this, where the same judge (already familiar with all the details) also decides on a punitive amount going to the state.
- ianai 4y agoI doubt 75k is the 20x monthly income financial professionals suggest to carry in case of unexpected unemployment for this position. Works out to less than 15.50/hr.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI think for devs the information that the employer watches your every move is pretty important. Portals like glassdoor should introduce a new metric about bossware.