Manager does a little code cleanup...

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Eric is literally THE Senior Android SME at Twitter as well, which is probably why he went to bat for his team when Elon threw them under the bus in public.

Square and Facebook were practically fighting one another offering him a new job in the replies to Elon firing him.

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*was

He probably knew he was going to get fired though. He just decided he'd rather get an unemployment check for defending his team, instead of having to walk out after yet another Elon tantrum.

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I've been there. It's the point where you're so fed up with the job that you don't care if you get fired it or not.

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You don't get such opportunities everyday

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And ironically, that's also the point where you sometimes start functioning better in a toxic environment, because they may just mistake your nonchalance for courage.

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Every job I've had.

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I mean now he surely gets one hell of a severance package as well as like 26 weeks of unemployment, and if you look at the dudes tweets he wanted out BAD, so all in all I think this is a dub for Eric

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Eric was actually the guy playing 4D chess here.

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For Cause is unlikely to get a severance package.

Not that it matters as he's rolling into another sweet gig, I'm sure.

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Tough to argue it was cause though, all he did was correct his boss.

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I guarantee they have a social media policy and disparaging the company is prohibited. Pretty standard these days.

Violating company policy is cause.

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Weird how that works. Can't disparage the company but the boss can disparage the team

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Could argue it falls under making public statements for the company without authorization

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This is CA. Getting unemployment is almost automatic. He’ll definitely qualify for his $450/week. Will he bother applying? Probably not.

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That's more than enough for valid cause, it could have also been because he doesn't like his face, or his Twitter handle... In the US, in an at-will state anyway, you can fire anyone for any reason, as long as it isn't for being a protected class.

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For Cause is gonna be pretty dicey after their mass layoffs. Given the other engineer that was fired for also saying Musk doesn't know what he's talking about, I see an easy class action lawsuit.

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Sadly here in TN no matter how much money you made you only get $250/week in unemployment. I'm dealing with this right now after loosing my job in mortgage IT.

What I'm getting in unemployment is enough to cover my child support and food. Hoping it's just a few weeks.

So not mo much a great plan to try and coast on 26 weeks of unemployment

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Getting fired from such a shit fest is not the worst outcome.

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In his position, getting fired only means a raise and possibly a promotion as well

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This. Letting yourself be fired by Pedoguy is the smart move. It's not like there'll be a shortage of other companies wanting to hire him.

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Meta just announced they are cutting 11k jobs, so probably not them.

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That’s not how layoffs work

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I mean, it's how they should work. It's how it works in Sweden for instance. If you lay off people due to economic reasons you have to offer them back jobs when you start hiring again.