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Originally Posted by Jay Random
But Twitter is not the market. M&M, in the hypothetical, didn't misjudge the market at all; they made a business decision based on noise from people who were not even involved in their market.
This, by the way, happens in my line of work all the time: see my long post above. The publishing industry is notorious for ignoring clear signals from the market and paying attention to irrelevant noise from online mobs, Manhattan cocktail parties, academics, and other sources that have no connection with the paying customers.
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Well, I'd be pretty surprised if you have a better read of MLSE's market than MLSE (a large, pretty sophisticated organization with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake). But of course organizations, even large sophisticated ones, make mistakes all the time. However, even if true, it just makes MLSE, M&M Inc, or these publishers incorrect, not immoral.
Again, in all but the most egregious of cases, employers making these decisions are doing so without actually alleging cause, and are paying the terminated employee in lieu of notice. These are clear business decisions where the perceived costs of termination are less than the costs of continuing the employment relationship.
So I don't understand your moral outrage.