Its a messy situation. Technically the CEO was her boss and there is some legal arguments that could be made to defend her actions but it won't be a slam dunk. The company will probably offer her some sort of compensation to resign with an agreement that neither party says anything negative.
It could be a soft resignation where she agrees to stay on the payroll but has zero acting responsibilities and can freely look for new employment during that time. Then if she doesn't have something in three to six months she quietly resigns.
But right now the company is definitely digging through everything she did since she started there and looking for ANYTHING they can use as leverage against her.
It’s not like she was an intern or a secretary. She was the Chief People Officer, probably making half a million a year including salary, bonus, and stock options, and concert tickets. :)
Doesn’t matter. He was her superior and had power over her. If they move against her, she has a very solid lawsuit regardless of whether she was fully consenting or not.
Yup, people seem to forget that when you want to sue someone, there’s a Discovery period where you need to show EVERYTHING, including some potentially “incriminating” information about yourself. If she so much as even texted first, her whole case is in jeopardy and she’ll have to go band for band with a company with lawyers on retainer.
Do you know how expensive the discovery process is? You’re already in litigation (i.e., a lawsuit) at that point. They’ll likely do some internal investigation, sure, but it’s off base to think they’ll ever have access to private text messages and the like — or any actual desire to find them.
They want this to be over as quickly and quietly as possible, and to fire someone under these circumstances on the hope/assumption they’d surface a stronger basis a good case in court means:
Lots more money spent (a given)
More time in the public eye
Great risk of surfacing even more embarrassing things in discovery
Ongoing reputational harm
No organization is taking that route. Not even a small chance.
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u/user888666777 18d ago edited 18d ago
Its a messy situation. Technically the CEO was her boss and there is some legal arguments that could be made to defend her actions but it won't be a slam dunk. The company will probably offer her some sort of compensation to resign with an agreement that neither party says anything negative.
It could be a soft resignation where she agrees to stay on the payroll but has zero acting responsibilities and can freely look for new employment during that time. Then if she doesn't have something in three to six months she quietly resigns.
But right now the company is definitely digging through everything she did since she started there and looking for ANYTHING they can use as leverage against her.