Comment by JPKab

4 years ago

A massive company that makes overpriced, low-quality athletic products that double as status symbols, which they manufacture overseas (often using child labor) but then sell for massive markups in the US, Europe, etc. They have an extremely aggressive "woke" presence in their advertising, because as long as you care about social justice for your targeted customers, who cares that "people of color" in the developing world are being paid slave wages to create your products. You probably know who I'm talking about now, but I'm not going to name them.

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baryphonic  4 years ago

Sounds like your brother believed in something and sacrificed everything. If I were him, I might hire an employment lawyer and sue the shit out of them. Ya know, "Just do it."

  • JPKab  4 years ago

    The cost was hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the company would have fought it for about 3 years, based on the advice of the wrongful termination specialist he consulted. He would have been bankrupted, and did what most people do, and just moved on.

    • baryphonic  4 years ago

      That's awful. Even more reason for me to despise That Company.

      My father managed a mom & pop shoe store in the 80s. That Company got its start distributing through small local shoe stores, and as soon as they started making big bucks, began treating the local stores like garbage. Throughout my childhood, we were banned from buying or wearing their, as you accurately put it, overpriced, low quality crap.

    • DonHopkins  4 years ago

      So they swooshed it under the rug, and you don't want to air max facts about the case in public?

Elof  4 years ago

Seems like your brother can probably sue for damages if this is the whole story

  • JPKab  4 years ago

    He was told his case was legitimate, but the cost was too much for him to afford. Also, large corporations have massive legal teams.

    The narrative that is widely believed is that "the cost of making an accusation is so high that nobody would do it, so automatically believe accusers" and they pretend that there is no cost to being accused.

    It's an oversimplification and ignores the game theory involved in these things.

    • darig  4 years ago

      You're ignoring the game theory of abusers exploiting the cost of making an accusation such that they never get accused.

  • donnythecroc  4 years ago

    Yes clearly, if he has corroborating evidence. Also, it's easy to get an unfair dismissal lawyer on compensation share I.e. they take 40% of any compensation as their fee. Plus if it's a major corp and your brother has evidence then they'll usually have a budget/insurance for paying off these types of claims.