Has anyone ever received a cease and desist? I lost my job yesterday and now I just received a cease and desist to stop saying how bad the company is.

Honestly, if they don't want to lose employees and customers, they need to look at themselves.

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Dude were you working for Theranos?

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Do you mean cease and desist?

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Refrain. Cease = Stop the bad thing you’re doing. Desist = Resist the temptation to do it again or more of it

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WTH did you do/say?

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Outen and Golden are great employment attorneys in New York.

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Did you get a severance that included a non disclosure stipulation?

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It’s no longer your job, so it’s not “part of your job” any longer.

Name & shame; put them in blast

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I can think of one reason you got let go

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Enlighten me

*subscribe*

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You can’t just leave us hanging like this now

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Are they shady? It just seems shady to send a letter unless you were like really going crazy. Talking to a few people shouldn’t be a big deal even if it’s on the line. Seems like they have something to hide. I like a good conspiracy though.

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did you post this on linkedin or something?

They were scared about their job, as they should be. My friend had been laid off a few hours before I was due to low utilization so I warned others.

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I personally haven’t, but I did have some coworkers at another company that had all joined around the same time from the same competitor and they all got cease and desists as a “reminder” that they weren’t supposed to poach each other. (They weren’t.)

I wonder if this is just standard procedure for your former company? Did they cite specific examples?

Yeah, kinda sounds like standard operating procedure to me. The fact that you were let go yesterday and received it today (if I understood you correctly) makes me think they do this for everyone. Telling people to keep their util up is not even remotely confidential or harmful language. That’s just…business 101.

Personally, I wouldn’t respond to it. That said, I am definitely not a lawyer and am just a rando on the internet, so if you want a more professional opinion you could see if there are any employment law firms in your state that will give you a consult.

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