If he had hired a good lawyer, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing him doing interviews and tweeting images of himself wearing a T-shirt comparing Google to a gulag.
No, I'm pretty sure he just wants attention.
He did.
This is who filed the complaint on his behalf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hastings
Clients, of course, can ignore good advice.
That sounds reasonable.
> If he had hired a good lawyer, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing him doing interviews
People who hire good lawyers don't do interviews? That's some stretch.
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This: If he had hired a good lawyer, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing him doing interviews
Is a pretty baseless statement. It's also not what he said.
This: If he had hired a good lawyer, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing him doing interviews and tweeting images of himself wearing a T-shirt comparing Google to a gulag.
Is a pretty good point.
Based solely on VikingCoder's "T-shirt comparing Google to a gulag", the characterization will be of a disgruntled worker who didn't care about his job and felt like burning all his bridges before leaving in what he thought was a blaze of glory.
His actions after the firing could easily be explained away as hurt feelings for trying to be open and honest, and being publicly shamed?
* it's not the defense I suppose if he originated the suit, but you know what i mean
Something like half the citations are to Wikipedia. There are five actual scientific papers there, three or four of which don't even support his thesis, and, if I recall correctly, many of which are in the Wikipedia citations, the classic trick of a rushed undergrad who needs trustworthy citations but has no idea how to find them.
There are some people who are "mad as hell, and ... not going to take this anymore", so write such essays to 'prove' that they aren't wrong, the company wrong.
For that matter, there are some people in romantic relationships who do the same.
I'm not saying that's what happened in this case, I'm saying that this is what Google's lawyers will argue happened, so a good lawyer would advise him to not make things easier for Google.
* the word you want is 'plaintiff' as this would be a civil suit.
Did the T-shirt predate his sacking?
While those who just want to roil the ant's nest, do.
That's how Google's lawyer's will portray him, which is why a good lawyer would recommend not doing that.