It’s not really poaching if they’ve already been fired, now is it?
this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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"scooping up" would be the right wording
Don't worry, our boy Elon will find a way to call it poaching and throw tantrum
"Poachers keep taking property from my bins in their giant trucks!"
- Companies, unironically
True, they went over easy. Well done, GM. Those employees are no longer scrambled. Things are really turning sunny side up.
Eh.
If they were laid off it would depend on contract status and how the severance was paid out for when it changed to headhunting.
Plus, I don't even think this happened same day. If it was between the public announcement and separation date then it's 100% poaching.
Not that it matters at all though, it's not like it's illegal, and it barely has negative connotations anymore.
I don’t think it’s called poaching when they’ve already been laid off
You sure poaching is the word for hiring unemployed people?
Poach is an interesting word for offering internships to students who’s internship at Tesla never even started
students whose* internships
It's not poaching if they were already fired by Tesla. Why do I constantly have to point out the obvious these days?
there's definitely no way that Tesla could have predicted or avoided this