I didn't see any references in the article you linked to any cases where it had been enforced. I see a lot of commentary that validates the concern, and a listing of half a dozen states where they are being struck down.
So the callout to be wary of them is totally legit... but it doesn't look like they are going to be enforceable when such things go through the courts.
Technically, maybe, but effectively, nobody is going to be able to withstand BigCorp's 100 lawyers whose mission is to bury you in legal fees if you push back. By the time that you confirm these things are unenforceable, you've spent your life savings on $millions in legal fees, and possibly gone into crippling debt. In the legal system, might (wealth + lawyer quantity) makes right.
Not caring is key. Like so much is out of your control you have to accept that most of the company’s decisions aren’t about you or factor you into account. Including your own performance reviews - you can get lucky and have a boss you gel with - or have a boss you don’t interact well with. Or your salary is a rounding error someone had to solve for.
It’s not clear that reorganizing US foreign aid agencies is in violation of statute. As I understand it statute allocate $X to US foreign aid. And instructs the State dept to organize this aid.
The EO to pause all payments was challenged in court and halted
A lot of bad crap has happened, and I disagree with what DOGE is doing, but it’s not a coup.
USAID is not a US foreign aid agency. It is a US propaganda and soft power agency, opposite China's Belt & Road initiative. President Trump has named Marco Rubio as temporary head (so Secretary Rubio has two roles).
The President does have the authority to stop the agency's actions, and make it answer to the Secretary of State. Dissolving it altogether or making it part of the State Department likely requires Congressional approval.
Exactly. Too many here oppose eliminating the militant, left wing, anti-Americanism from the US government. Restoring it to a more rational and Constitutionally based framework is what's happening. It's not a coup. The government wastes and launders incredible sums of OUR money. Example, some $100B of the aid to the Ukraine is missing, if you believe Zelensky. In all likelihood, Zelendsky pocketed some of it and routed other to Biden and other affiliated NGO and back into the hands of the globalist faction. Resisting illegal immigration is likewise not a coup. It's the restoration of sovereignty and the rule of law. Nor is eliminating DEI/woke propaganda a coup. It is a restoration of common sense and science. Trump isn't the problem. The problem is all of the folks out here that are willing to surrender their lives to government and left wing utopian fantasies. They don't exist.
You need to read more instead of repeating Russian propaganda. The $100bn didn't "go missing". Zelensky is never seeing that money because it is not for him, it is for replenishing the US military stocks given to Ukraine with newer equipment.
Ugh yeah I turned down a job offer even from seemingly ethical and nice startup in large part because I’d be exchanging actual publicly traded RSU vesting in the future with equivalent in options.
It’s hard to trade in somewhat certain money for likely fictional Stock Options. Though I’d possibly trade RSUs from company A for company B.
There’s almost like a two tier employment system between those at FAANG or adjacent with actual likelihood of a healthy payout and those with options / lottery tickets.
> Ugh yeah I turned down a job offer even from seemingly ethical and nice startup in large part because I’d be exchanging actual publicly traded RSU vesting in the future with equivalent in options.
I did the same thing. The options were from a company that had just IPO'd named Google. You may have heard of it. ;-)
Yeah, the gamble only pays off for a company that has a growth so strong, and a plan so safe that the downside is quite low. They have to give you more options because they know they are worse than RSUs, so the pay really can end up being higher than FAANG, but still with some gambling involved. Those companies exist (See, Stripe 10 years ago), but there are so few of those, it's harder to find them than just go to FAANG.
