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First this type of information should be on a web page or blog post. Not a hard to read twitter thread. Second saying that Jeff Bezos wrote (and further that
by gist 2y ago
First this type of information should be on a web page or blog post. Not a hard to read twitter thread.
Second saying that Jeff Bezos wrote (and further that he tried to imprison her husband) it makes the OP loose credibility (especially as an attorney) for her argument (regardless of the outcome). While it's possible Jeff did write it (in the sense that a plant in the garden couldn't have written it because plants can't write) it's not credible to imply that fact to prove your point.
Also a law degree is not 'helpful no matter what route you take' from my many many years of business experience and interactions it can actually hold you back. Because you might tend to look at edge cases (such as this one) and make judgements based on things you know. Not to mention it takes years of study which detracts from other things you might learn that might be more helpful.
- janice1999 2y ago> Second saying that Jeff Bezos wrote ... it Do you sincerely believe she meant that literally? She's clearly being sarcastic and using it to name drop Bezos via his twitter handle.
- smsm42 2y agoAll praise to the wife fighting for her husband, but it doesn't exactly make her claims more trustworthy, rather the contrary, it makes one wonder what other claims there we must consider to be "sarcastic" or performative exaggeration instead of literal truth?
- thoroughburro 2y agoIt doesn’t make “one” wonder that, no. You, I guess, weirdly struggle to understand fellow humans.
- smsm42 2y agoWell, it should. Of course, the existing twitter "outrage first, thinking never" culture doesn't really allow for that, but there's a better way.
- gist 2y ago> "outrage first, thinking never" This is near exactly my point. The outrage rising to the level as if amazon is just a truly evil entity and all based on perhaps a few bad experiences confirmed by this particular story.
- gist 2y agoYes it's called hyperbole and clickbait. By the same token she could have gotten even more attention by claiming the janitor wrote the contract.
- gist 2y agoDo I know that she knew that it wasn't Jeff Bezos. Absolutely. That's no excuse for what amounts to slander https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/slander https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/slander "Slander is a false statement, usually made orally, which defames another person. "
- metabagel 2y agoInvoking Jeff Bezos’ name is an understandable way of raising the profile of the story. It’s pretty easy to tut tut when you weren’t the one to suffer all of the losses which she describes.
- gist 2y agoI'd like to know what attempts they made in that time period to 'not suffer' meaning exactly what was said by Amazon's attorneys by way of a potential settlement. Nice they fought 'till the bitter end' (and apparently from what is conveyed they won) but not only do we not know the true exact story we won't. Entirely possible they could have avoided that suffering (if you want to call it that).