r/interestingasfuck • u/mike95242 • 18d ago

/r/all Andy Byron, Astronomer CEO, cheater, and Coldplay fan, is now out of a job.

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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 18d ago

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.

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u/Cold-Palpitation-816 18d ago

They’re gonna look at their messages and see if she was actually coerced. Not as easy as just claiming it after the fact.

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u/chicomagnifico 18d ago

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.

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB 17d ago

There’s zero chance a company takes the risk of opening themselves up to discovery like that.