Carta announces layoffs, fires CTO
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eShares Inc. d/b/a Carta Inc. filed a breach-of-contract and trade secrets lawsuit against former CTO Jerry O. Talton III on Friday in New York Southern District Court. The suit, brought by Dechert, accuses the defendant of leaking private, privileged and confidential info to outside parties in order to induce and assist legal claims against the company. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 1:22-cv-10987, eShares Inc. v. Talton.In other words, he told about something potentially illegal, but secret, and now is sued.
Sounds somewhat similar to whistleblowing. Why this could be illegal?
> Unbeknownst to Carta, Talton repeatedly abused his position of trust and confidence as CTO to secretly record multiple Carta executives, Board members and others in an attempt to harm Carta, including by feeding such information to former employees who were threatening to assert claims against Carta (and/or who were already litigating against Carta), and to circumvent and undermine the very information technology infrastructure and security systems he was charged with safeguarding in order to conceal his own illicit conduct.
From page 2, here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...
> By way of example only, Talton sent or received messages that include the terms “jungle n***s” and “gross lesbians,” “butterfaces,” “rape,” “big rubber dog dick,” “pathetically obsessed pussy slave,” phrases such as “women don’t experience pain the way humans do,” “I’m never going to get to pin you down and fuck you again, am I...you know how hard I get when you humiliate me,” “now i have to jerk off before my meetings start” in addition to sending links containing explicit and misogynistic pornography.
I was in pillar update meetings with both the CTO and CEO. Jerry may actually be a shitty person, but you can bet those messages were deliberately released to paint him as a shitty person and discredit him prior to a countersuit. Nevertheless, Henry, the CEO, is a way shittier person.
This is mainly me airing my grievances, but take some advice: if you feel like your workplace is a toxic hellhole, it probably is. It's not your job to fix it, and you should move on physically and mentally.
Not aside from the allegations: whoa, gross.