X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million.
The arbitration numbers were revealed in a new filing out Monday as part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court. The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).
As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so. This means to speak freely in court, where their speech can become part of a public record, workers would first need to get an exemption from a judge.
I have no sympathy. Companies that require class action waivers and mandatory arbitration clauses don’t get to complain when thousands of people file arbitration claims simultaneously.
I’ve actually used arbitration to get my way in the past when I pointed out to the company that their filing fee for the arbitration was more expensive than just honoring their commitments, so even if I lost they’d be out several times what I wanted.
It would probably be more expensive for 2200 lawsuits, no?
I get a kick out of every time a journalist feels they need to specify “formerly known as Twitter” because X is such a generic, indistinguishable brand.
I think it would be better to say “Twitter, currently branded as X” it is both useful and makes it look like it is just a cringy phase a teenager might go through temporarily. So you should just ignore the change and it will eventually resolve itself.
The x.com URL just points at Twitter.com
IMO the whole renaming/redirecting/retheming situation with twitter looks like an unprofessional half hearted aquisition lol
Both engineers are working on it.
“The site formerly known as Twitter”
The site still located at Twitter.com
I continue to use “twitter” because Musk is a transphobe. If he feels obligated to deadname or misgender people, or defend those who do, I don’t see the need to follow what he wants to identify as, either.
So if Musk were to immediately stop deadnaming trans people, would you immediately stop “deadnaming” Twitter?
If Elmo owned up to and apologized for his transphobia, resolving not to do that kind of thing again in the future, I would be more than happy to call his microblogging service whatever he ends up deciding to name it. I’m not sure this is going to be enough to convince him, but go ahead and forward that along if you think it will help.
Might as well just call it Twitter. The only people that go along with calling it “X” are chuds and Musk sycophants.
and Musk sycophants
You already said chuds
All these venn diagrams make a circle.
What a fantastic insult (I didn’t mean that as sarcasm, I think it’s hilarious).
Currently x.com still redirects to Twitter.com, so I don’t see any issues with calling it Twitter.
99% sure there’s to much code with logic checking for the Twitter domain (including in external dependencies!) that they don’t know how to mirror the site correctly on x.com
Elon could make things even worse by hastening that transition. If the x-twitter app is down for a few weeks and all external connections break for a few month, it’s going to be just fine. I’m pretty sure that it would only improve the quality of life of all twitter users.
It is Twitter, and I’ll be Twitter until it’s shutdown. Only morons who are into crypto ponzi schemes call it X unironically, expecting Elon to be their friend somehow
Xitter is a good compromise, and almost onomatopoeic.
Like or hate Elon, I hope everyone can agree the name change is incredibly stupid. X… X what? X me later. Did you see that X?.. Uh huh.
X gonna give it to ya.
There are a lot of jokes to be made about Twitter referencing the disasterpiece movie “Foodfight!” and its villains fighting for “Brand X”.
Musk is killing it!
(“it” being whatever shred of reputation he had left before the last year or so)
X marks the spot where he killed twitter.
X marks the spot for closing the tab
Oh he’s been burning that reputation for a good while. I feel like when he tried to send a useless sub and called some guy a pedo was probably the largest turning point for many. Since that point he’s been less and less heralded as he was before hand.
I think that’s when I predicted he’d either be a Lex Luthor or a Tony Stark.
Turns out I was wrong on both accounts though. He’s just a shit for brains, emerald spooned jerk.
Little bit more legality/politics than technology no?
Yes, but it’s about a major tech company, so maybe it fits? NBC filed it in their ‘Tech News’ section.
I think that’s just more of a rollover from anything on the internet being labeled as ‘tech’, but like nowadays if the president sends a tweet its really not that notable of news, technologically. We could also start reporting every time a text is sent if we really wanted
You’re technically right, which is the best kind of right. It’s a destructive CEO story who just happens to run a tech company (into the ground)
This is like the Spanish guy kissing the winning footballer woman on the lips against her will. It’s going to be reported under sports, but really it’s a sexism story that just happens to be in sports.
But at least it is being reported and commented on, no?
Shit you got me there ngl
Gonna sink back to my linux n self hosting communities in defeat
You could’ve just downvoted and moved on 🙄
Same to you lol
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Just more of the same Luddite shit, unfortunately. Seems nobody loves technology more than people who really fucking hate technology.
Just more of the same Luddite shit, unfortunately. Seems nobody loves technology more than people who really fucking hate technology.
The Luddites were actually based as fuck.
And yes, a lot of exceptionally skilled engineers really fucking hate technology - a side effect of one’s day to day being deeply entangled in technology.
I used to think automation was the coolest thing ever and that everything should be automated.
After looking at controls for an industrial plant? There are some things I will pay extra to not have automated.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there.
Woodfield, a former senior staff network engineer who had worked at Twitter’s Seattle office, alleges in his suit that Musk’s Twitter (now known as X) had promised then failed to pay his severance, and later delayed alternative dispute resolution by failing to pay the necessary fees required for him to move ahead in the JAMS arbitration system.
The company’s lawyers have argued that it did not mandate employees to resolve any issues in arbitration, so it should not be on the hook for the larger portion of the filing fees.
As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so.
Critics view arbitration as a secretive system that makes it harder for employees and prospective hires to find out how companies treat their workers, and what happened to people in previous related cases.
The Woodfield case against Musk’s X Corp. resembles another proposed class action filed in a San Francisco federal court.
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