Comments by "Sean" (@sean2015) on "Louisiana woman accused of refusing to return $1.2M after bank error" video.

Nor does she have a valid wrongful termination case like this guy says. She was an at-will employee and could be fired with or without cause. Louisiana is an at-will employment state just like every other state except Montana. I'm not sure if this Claypool guy knows what he is talking about.
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Jesse, your girlfriend's karma will be you putting a nice expensive ring on her finger. Won't it. ;-)
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@JH-fe2ho sure, that may have been a more "polite" way to handle the situation, but employers are not required to do that. An employer owes you nothing except your last paycheck. If the employer fired her because of this, it would be easy enough for them on the fly to devise some other official reason for the termination.
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I say let her keep the money. She'll wind up spending every penny of it and she'll owe a good $400,000 in back taxes with no means to pay. The IRS will come down on her like a ton of bricks and will levy everything from her SUV to her cell phone.
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@Whattatwist it would be funny if she got to keep the funds and spent it all within one year and then was on the hook for a six-figure tax bill. Forget about the bank’s lawyers, wait til she has to deal with the IRS.
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@NathanHowardELA was this a union job?
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@darrylrevok9936 I agree, I was only joking when I talked about her spending the money. This is like people shoplifting and justifying it by saying "the prices are too high" or "the store makes plenty of money anyway".
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@donaldaltman4764 right-to-work is actually a separate issue. Even in a closed shop state you can still be fired without cause. I’m a member of a union myself right now, and if my manager decides to fire me I know there is nothing the union can legally do. This is why I hate unions, because they take money out of every paycheck for nothing, and I know all too well about at-will employment having been fired or forced to resign from five jobs throughout my lifetime. All of which were for performance reasons and not any type of misconduct. Having said all of this, most employers won’t just randomly fire an employee without good reason (even though they have every right) because doing so puts them on the hook to pay unemployment benefits.
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@lfd4967 I’m sure you’ll agree with me that there’s nobody more stupid than a lawyer who doesn’t know the law. (I know all too well about at-will employment because I’ve been fired or forced to resign from five jobs during my lifetime).
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@JH-fe2ho exactly, that's my whole point. That's why wrongful terminations are always difficult to prove. Even if the actual underlying reason for the termination is illegal (e.g. the employee was fired based on a civil characteristic, or he/she was fired for being a whistle-blower, etc.,) it's very easy for the employer to find some other perfectly valid and lawful reason to tell the employee (e.g. "we recently did an audit of our attendance records and found you clocked in two minutes late to your shift several months back, that is a terminable offense, security will escort you out of the building" ) At-will laws also allow employers to fire with or without any type of warning. It can be your hundredth offense or your first one - it doesn't matter.
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@JH-fe2ho an easy way around that is simply to not have an employee handbook.
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Jesse Jackson 🤣🤣
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@Doc 23 facts. The BLM rioters are actually justifying the vandalism, looting and destruction of small businesses by saying "So what? They have insurance"
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