Recently with party city, closing literally right before Christmas, and just abruptly, if the staff would’ve known ahead of time and decided if they didn’t care at all, since they were gonna lose their jobs if employees just gave extremely deep discounts on the final day or practically gave some of the inventory away for free can the CEO upon finding out about this do a lot to former employees that decided to give the metaphorical middle finger to the CEO for doing that? I don’t know how petty some companies are, but if it was still mean I had the keys. Would they literally be told handover the keys immediately before employees could take also inventory as well? I ask this because I know the CEO will never compensate or even say thank you for your services, so I just wanted to know what can somebody do in a situation where if they retaliated how much trouble can the CEO get them in if they’re being petty.

And also the same vein if a lot of people went on TikTok or other social media is to badmouth the CEO and it reaches a high enough number, can the CEO retaliate anyway because of employees insulting him or is it under the freedom of speech act where if they’re venting but not threatening they can at least say this guy sucks or wish them harm as long as they’re not directly saying they’re going to or something like that?