I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter
This is called “having your cake and eating it too.”<p>Simply don’t pay office rent and let them sue you and drag your feet forever until they negotiate for lower rent or go bankrupt.<p>If you know commercial real estate are about to go bankrupt if they can’t collect rent, then you have a lot of power. Wait nine months without paying and they will be too busy being bankrupt to afford lawyers to sue you into submission. Musk seems to know it so maybe they cave and he gets 1/2 price commercial space.<p>Announce everyone gets a giant severance then … just don’t pay. While claiming you did on twitter or will.<p>I have less sympathy for land lords.<p>I think they did an effective job completely Turning public opinion against twitter employees. Painting them as dead weight and woke stooges for the FBI.<p>Now we find out - Yeah they aren’t getting paid for being laid off as promised.<p>But now they are so painted unfavorably he might be calculating no one will actually care. The ex employees can’t do anything? They never even “got laid off.”<p>Watching this play out it’s clear that musk is playing total hardball with the legal system and exploiting the loop holes and edge cases.<p>It’s shocking to see it play out like this. And for whatever reason he can somehow : is likely to somehow walk out of it with his reputation intact since so many people are cheering for it.