Imprisoned? Not just a fine for the company and settlement requiring them to promise to follow the law gong forward, without admitting wrongdoing? Inconceivable!
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In Silicon Valley, you'll typically get put on a PIP, get your reputation smeared, mysteriously discover that your performance reviews have tanked, or get investigated and fired for violations of a deliberately vague, ill-defined policy that everyone else is breaking all the time.
But you're probably not going to get your family spied on, or blackmailed.
At worst, you lose your retaliation lawsuit, and have blackballed yourself from the industry. There's a reason employers do background checks on new hires.
The Samsung stuff here, though, is truly beyond the pale, because it extends outside the workplace, and is well-documented. (As opposed to he-said-she-said subjective things like performance reviews...)