In June this year, an American woman, Lexi Larson, openly discussed her expenses on the social media app Tiktok. In her video, Lexi, from Denver, Colorado, also shared that she’d just landed a new job in the tech industry, and along with it, a US$20,000-a-year pay increase.
It seemed innocuous enough – Lexi even mentioned that she was enjoying her job, as reported in the New York Post – but her bosses didn’t approve of the video and fired her over it.
They “really, really did not like” that she was sharing her salary, according to a follow-up video she posted, two weeks after the previous one.
“They said (that) me having this account was a security concern