When it comes to a worker and a multi-million dollar corporation, "let the lawyers sort it out" effectively means the same thing as "do nothing and let the corporation bury the worker in legal fees until they give up."
Not that speculating on Lemmy is really doing all that much, but if enough people start unsubscribing or saying they'll stop watching LTT over this, it creates an incentive for LTT to give her a better settlement.
Incidentally, shit like this is also another good reason to join or start a union.
Lawyers who work on contingency (no win - no fee) have a lot of caveats.
They usually work on easy, open and shut cases. The more likely they are to win the more likely they are to get paid.
They usually take a much bigger chunk of the plaintiff's winnings if they do win, so even a win is much less of a win than otherwise.
Even if they work for a larger firm, most lawyers who work on contingency don't have the resources, or can't justify using firm resources, on a risky case that entails a lot of work. This might result in incomplete discovery, or the other side buying a one-person operation in paper.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, and this is a generalization, but most lawyers choose not to work on contingency if they have other work. This often means (and of course there are exceptions) that contingency lawyers are not the cream of the crop, especially compared to whatever big firm lawyers a company can retain.
TLDR if Madison had a shred of evidence she might have a case, but instead she probably has squat and is just shy of defamatory online when the spotlight isn't on her to try and do damage.
Leave it for the lawyers to sort out if Madison can produce even a shred of evidence, which shouldn't be hard because she isn't the first LMG employee to just up and leave.
But yeah, intentionally cutting your leg open to go to the ER is totally what a rational balanced individual would do sure.
If it's the only way to take time off it absolutely could be. Though in such an instance really it's your hero Linus who is responsible for cutting her leg open.
It's fucking Canada, just tip your hat and say sorry and the progressive employment laws will take care of you.
Nobody was chained to a desk, doing anything except walking the fuck out of there is doing yourself a disservice but you absolutely need not injur yourself.
Someone's obviously never experienced the faintest hint of worry about finding employment or keeping a roof over their head. Because I guess no one has ever had such problems in Canada
Maybe someday it will happen to you and you will finally grow up and stop being a colossal douche