While I don't dispute anything you're saying, I can also say that in lawsuits like this, it's pretty typical for the plaintiff to generally trump up the role/abilities of the defendants in the suit to try to maximize damages.
That happened to me. I was involved in a suit during the dot-com-bust (I followed my former manager to his startup - they wanted to shut us down), and my role was inflated from worker bee who wasn't on any projects to a senior level manager type with fiduciary responsibilities. That was news to me, because had I actually had that type of role, I probably wouldn't have left in the first place.
Like the blog author says, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
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While I don't dispute anything you're saying, I can also say that in lawsuits like this, it's pretty typical for the plaintiff to generally trump up the role/abilities of the defendants in the suit to try to maximize damages.
That happened to me. I was involved in a suit during the dot-com-bust (I followed my former manager to his startup - they wanted to shut us down), and my role was inflated from worker bee who wasn't on any projects to a senior level manager type with fiduciary responsibilities. That was news to me, because had I actually had that type of role, I probably wouldn't have left in the first place.
Like the blog author says, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Very good point. Somehow everyone is skipping the fact that Ted was a CO-OP STUDENT during his work at RIM.