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she agreed to it to get a severance payment
by Invictus0 6mo ago
she agreed to it to get a severance payment
- ceejayoz 6mo agoThat should be illegal, too. Or the permissible scope of such an agreement heavily limited.
- thejazzman 6mo ago“Sign this or starve” isn’t much of a stretch when you think about it
- 0x3f 6mo agoAs if Meta employees live on the cusp of starving.
- ceejayoz 6mo agohttps://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-facebook-to-pay-52-million-to-content-moderators-with-ptsd https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-faceb... > Some of the content moderators were earning $28,800 a year, the technology news site The Verge found last year. In this particular case, the legal costs are probably pretty ruinous.
- 0x3f 6mo agoI think you'll find the person in question's title is quite far from content moderator.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoI think you'll find that's why the "in this particular case" line is there.
- 0x3f 6mo agoNobody forced her to break her contract and thus come up against that. She would have been perfectly fine on the leftovers from ~$500k/y while searching for her next job. The parent makes out like she simply had to get the extra money, lest she starve to death. Which is patently ridiculous.
- thejazzman 6mo agoI agree with you there, but I think that may be the only reason this app isn’t cast in a darker light. I can also imagine that with SF living expenses that there are a lot of people without a big safety net I don’t really mean for this to be related to any one person. The general population doesn’t have a choice but to sign terms and get the severance , in general, in America
- burnt-resistor 6mo agoIt's called a Hobson's choice.
- 0x3f 6mo ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 6mo ago"Yes, sometimes." — the law (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability)
- 0x3f 6mo ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 6mo agoIt's Hacker News, not I'm Thirteen And Just Discovered Anarchism And It Sounds Cool Because Now My Parents Can't Tell Me To Brush My Teeth Before Bed News.
- ppseafield 6mo agoShe had serious debilitating medical issues from pregnancy where she lost a ton of blood and was in a coma for several days and nearly died. Of course she's going to take her severance to help care for her family given the atrocious state of our healthcare system.
- indymike 6mo agoI hate seeing this down-voted. It is such an important warning to people here. Severance agreements are pretty strong. Also, be very careful of snap settlement offers. So many of the greatest tragedies I've seen inflicted on people come from accepting an expedient way to get what is really a small amount of money quickly. So often the drive is paying the rent/mortgage or fear of losing health benefits. If you are in a bad situation and offered a settlement and you really feel like something isn't right please talk to an employment lawyer. Most US States have expedited processes for quickly resolving these cases, and the lawyer can help you a lot when you feel like your only choice is to take the severance.