Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus
It&#x27;s possible her husband got railroaded, however it&#x27;s also possible he did not. Impossible to tell from this tweetstorm.<p>First, being a disabled veteran does not preclude you from being laid off.<p>And as many others in this thread have pointed out, the &quot;sign on bonus&quot; she appears to reference apparently vests over 4 years, which is not that uncommon.<p>She says:<p>&gt; &quot;We’re shattered. Devasted. And fucking broke. @Tesla, shame on you. I know lay offs are a part of life, but you really took the low road and kicked your loyal employee in the balls when he was down.&quot;<p>Just to play Devil&#x27;s Advocate for a minute, what if companies were prevented from firing or laying off employees because of the financial situation of the employee? Should the company be forced to keep paying redundant employees as some form of social justice or obligation?<p>Look -- this is not a judgment on her, her husband, or their family. Maybe what happened to this couple is a complete travesty, maybe Tesla is some horrible evil mega-corporation and they should feel ashamed over the situation.<p>However it&#x27;s also possible her husband was in a department that was no longer needed or maybe even he underperformed his colleagues -- there&#x27;s no way of knowing from this tweetstorm.<p>What I dislike is this presumption on HN that just because someone tweeted out his&#x2F;her spouse got laid off by a tech giant that it&#x27;s automatically some immediate miscarriage of justice.<p>Maybe it is. Maybe it isn&#x27;t. There&#x27;s no way of knowing from the evidence in front of us. I wish the mods of HN were more judicious in accepting these kind of one-sided screeds.