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And you're okay with an employer not offering any help beyond a recommendation letter and you're okay with not knowing whether or not Twitter is a supportive employer? I'm not, that's why I brought up. Perhaps the beginning of my comment isn't so great but it is damned important that we know what kind of support employees and former employees will get when they're fired and something that needs to change in industry.

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What sort of help would you want or expect? A severance package or help by having the employer pay a recruiter to pimp the former employee? Or something else? In any case I'm totally fine with the idea of no help being offered provided such an exit clause is not part of the contract of employment the employee signed. If you want some specific sort of help from your old company in the event they fire you for cause, require that to be in the contract before you accept employment.

Twitter is a supportive employer. Employer being the key word there.

If you're no longer employed by them there should be no expectation of support. Especially to spend resources to find you another job.

Nothing needs to change in the industry. Thats how the world works. You get fired, you find another job.

>And you're okay with an employer not offering any help beyond a recommendation letter and you're okay with not knowing whether or not Twitter is a supportive employer?

I'm all for employee rights, but how exactly is Twitter different than the average (or all?) employees in this, or in any other industry, in this case?

Do other employers actively help fired employees to find a new job?

If you're selling labor that I don't currently need, what kind of obligation did I take on and for how long? Am I supposed to apologize to Subaru for not buying another car this year?

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