Elon Musk’s alleged penchant for not paying bills is catching up with him. In the wake of numerous lawsuits claiming the world’s richest man failed to pay severance owed to many of the 6,000 employees he fired after acquiring Twitter. On Monday, CNBC reported that the tech company now known as X is facing some 2,200 arbitration cases filed by ex-employees, which come with $3.5 million in required fees—an amount that doesn’t even include the actual severance owed to those Musk let go.
In October, shortly after taking Twitter’s reins, Musk laid off more than half of its employees, promising most at least two months’ salary plus a week’s pay for every year they’d worked at the firm. Thousands claim that they haven’t received a single dime, and ex-employees have since filed several lawsuits seeking their promised benefits.
You guys are failing to see that this was a simple misunderstanding.
Musk was told he needed to pay severance to all the ex employees, but he was confused why he was paying severance to “X employees” if they were still employed, so he simply didn’t.
It’s an easy mistake. Anyone could’ve done it.
Hence the rename from Twitter – more five-dimensional chess from that crafty bastard.
Ah, the old Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal gambit.