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> “At 8:46am, I opened a Tesla email for flight info. By 11:25am, my internship offer was gone,” wrote Miami University student Joshua Schreiber, who said his s
by mschuster91 3y ago
> “At 8:46am, I opened a Tesla email for flight info. By 11:25am, my internship offer was gone,” wrote Miami University student Joshua Schreiber, who said his start date was three weeks away and that he had already spent “thousands on housing.”
A bit too much to qualify for a small-claims court in the US, I'm afraid?
- colechristensen 3y ago$10,000 for an individual in CA I believe.
- sverhagen 3y agoDid those ex-Twitter folks get their severance money yet?
- StefanBatory 3y agoThat feels fucked. Doesn't that mess up with their future too? I don't think it's possible to find a good internship in the little time he has...
- helf 3y ago[dead]
- glimshe 3y agoI wouldn't be surprised if his internship offer came with a long contract full of small print, one line saying that they can withdraw the offer at any time for any reason with no compensation due. You can usually recover "thousands" on small claims, but I find it very unlikely for that to actually happen - Tesla will claim that the intern should have got something temporary (hotel, motel, airbnb) until he was actually working on the internship.
- mschuster91 3y ago> Tesla will claim that the intern should have got something temporary (hotel, motel, airbnb) until he was actually working on the internship. Any reasonable court should throw this argument away in an instant. It's one thing to expect temporary accomodation for a 2 week internship, but for anything longer than that, moving and housing expenses should have to be covered by the employer if they renege on the contract in bad faith.