Welcome to our slash malicious compliance where OPEG gets fired but walks away with millions of dollars.

Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. My podcast platform has this neat little graph that shows

me my listener demographics so I can see that most of my viewers are male. That's why I'm thrilled

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This statistic is crazy to me. Men make up 38% of talking therapy referrals yet 78% of

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the symbol slash followed by the word slash. Our next credit post is from Village Idiot. This

happened to a family member and it's my favorite legal screw up story. My family member was a

partner in a law firm. The way that a lot of law firms work is partners who retire get a pension.

It's based on the average salary of their last few years or something similar. This only applies

if you actually retire and don't go work somewhere else. My family member wasn't near retiring at

all. The two other partners who were in his area of practice at this firm decided to push him out.

Instead of trying to come to an agreement for him to leave, they ambushed him in a meeting where

they had already drafted exit documents for him to sign. They included some token severance,

but basically said to pack up your stuff or we're going to make this a huge hostile thing and

drag your name through the mud. There's a non-compete clause in a lot of partnership agreements,

so if you're a partner, you can't just leave and take clients and go work somewhere else right

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